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Put to two onces of ☿ crude washed & prpared wth vinegar & salte \melted & ready to fume/ a dosen tymes on drop \spone/ full Drop after Drop.

Put to two ounces of ☿ crude well washed & prpared a dosen tymes wth vinegar & salte melted & ready to fume on sponefull of the elixir of f. Drop after Drop. in an d {sic} Indifferent fyer. vntill albe ioyned togeather & afterward digest it. 2 days including their night each day 24. houes {sic}. M. Octob. 29 ♂ ☾ sep a △ ♃ ap △ ♄.

formans last gray pouder ʒij the like weight either of the oyle or of the spirit of salt Peeter. for 3 whole days to be kept in a fier of Sande/ deus opt. max benedicat.

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 200, f. 241v (upper part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE5290’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE5290, accessed 29 October 2026.