Booke of Receipts, manuscript in several hands, together 113pp. excluding blanks (39pp. 17 century, 32pp. 18 century & 15pp. a mix of 18 & 19 centuries; reverse entries 27pp. 17 century), reverse entries, 23pp. from both ends, first and last f. soiled and with brown marks, first 12ff. slightly wormed in inner margins, some ff. with other slight tears and marks, old Sotheby's catalogue description loosely inserted, loose, in the remains of a vellum indenture repurposed as the cover of this recipe book, soiled, creased and defective with loss, housed in an 18 century leather wallet, Post horn watermark, folio, 1670 [18 & 19 centuries].

⁂ Cookery recipes including: "To prserve Pippins red"; "To make marmalade of Oranges"; "To make marmalade of wardens [pears] a most Cordiall marmalett"; "To make the Italian Biskett"; "To make marmaled of Cherreys Mr. John Gard; "To make a sacke Possett"; "How to coller Beefe"; ""Duck sause"; "To make Westphalia Bacon"; "To make Pancakes"; "To make Duke of Norfolks Punch"; "To make Syrup of Elder"; "Dutch Biskets"; "To make Cyder"; "A Brown Bread Pudding" etc.

Medical recipes including: "Dr. Burges's drink against ye Plague, Purples, spotted ffever, Measles, Surfeits or ye like sudden sicknesses"; "The D. of Newcastle's Diet drink"; To make Almond cheese"; "A medicine to cure the green sicknesse"; "Sr Tho: Millingtons Diet drink for sweetening ye blood"; "For the Biting of a Mad Dog"; "Lady Parsons's Yellow Salve"; "ffor ye stone in the Bladder"; "A water for all manner of sore Leggs from the Knee downewards"; "Almond milke"; "A Unguent after a hard Travell" etc.