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A water stilled from salt peeter & sal armoniack purifyed then put a quantity of spritꝭ of wyne therto wch will congeale then Draw it of & put it on so often vntill It will congeale no more D Dee. novēb 27. 1618 a menstruū to dissolve gold & good to take inward water of salt armoniak good & salfe to take adding therof as of oyle of vitrioyle vnto Iulep or syrope very cooling & opening.

Calendared text from MS Ashmole 230, f. 103r (upper left part of page)

Cite this as: Lauren Kassell, Michael Hawkins, Robert Ralley, John Young, Joanne Edge, Janet Yvonne Martin-Portugues, and Natalie Kaoukji (eds.), ‘NOTE6602’, The casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier, 1596–1634: a digital edition, https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/notes/NOTE6602, accessed 29 October 2026.