Digital Image File Name:
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123214
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Source Call Number:
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V.a.140
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Source Title:
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Autograph letter signed from William Pitt, Westminster, to John Pitt the eldest of Blandford, [Dorset], his father [manuscript]. || Receipt book [manuscript].
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Source Creator:
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Pitt, William, fl. 1595, correspondent.
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Source Created or Published:
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1594/95 March 15 || compiled ca. 1600
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Physical Description:
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folio 28 verso (bottom) || folio 29 recto
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Digital Image Type:
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FSL collection
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Hamnet Catalog Link:
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http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=231384
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Transcription:
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the booke & the boxes with this
folio 29 recto
29
Those that be infected. *Let them drincke iij sponefulls of
this water with a litle tr[a]iacle or [met]
metrodatum
Those not infected maye drincke so muche of the
same to avoide the infeccion without triacle or
metrodatum,
[To] Those that are in health & feare the Infeccion, Let
them drincke iij sponefuls of vineger euerye
morninnge with the poulder of bolarmoniack
yt ys verye good to ayer your houses with vineger &
rose water caste vpon a hoate tyle or fier panne
myxed together. and all your people hole & sicke to receyve
the fume therof in to their mouth & nostrels.
* for the plague
take a greate hard onion the reddest you can gett & slyce it
then take a pinte of white wyne & a pinte of Ale & sett it on the
fyer put into it the onion & ij penniwoorth of treacle & a [h] halpeny
woorth of saferon boyle all those to the halfe then strayne them
then put into the liquor id of damask rose water & id of balme
water & a spoonefull of salett oyle, & then let it have a walme
[over] on the fyer, & then [the] lett the partie greived drincke thereof
a good draught warme, fastinge, in the morninge & last at
night & it will by godes helpe expell the plague.
when the sore is come out anoynte it with oyle of white
lillies of the garden warme at the fyer and when the
sore is broken, playster it & tente it with englyshe honie
the youlke of an egg, flower & a little grounsell stamped
& strayned and mingled to a [salf] salve./
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Credit:
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Transcriptions made by Shakespeare’s World volunteers (shakespearesworld.org), participants in EMROC classes and transcribathons (emroc.hypotheses.org), participants in Folger paleography classes and transcribathons, and Folger docents.
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