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the 3 water y^t is red drawen out of ♄ is the best dissolver of ☉ et ☾. & /good to be given inward\ thē otherwise aqua regis but thē it must be well stopped & also put in a large re {sic} Retorte & well luted.

seawater sylver

dn̄s cut in thyn peeces at 5 or 6^s the once & the fynest leafe golde ℥ß. at 40^s.

Calcyne in a Crucible

More general astrological notes on the lord of the fifth house.

An alchemical note copied from Forman.

Iste liber est spir o Aristot

Recipes (without ℞) and general treatment notes.

A paragraph of instructions for reading a nativity; two more paragraphs on reading charts for particular circumstances.

tinctura v^l quintessencia rosar{um} to purge gently at mres Waldons ℥ß 1. extractū w^th asmtch {sic} sugar of candy or hony

Itm’ quintessencia auri et {illeg} la{rū} each of thē selfes & by thē selfes. doe purge gently

corallorū magister. 1. ce{illeg}{illeg} dissolved put in wyne or beere. warmed or aqua vitæ it will pr restoare nature cōfort the whole body hart hed & brayne ℥j 5^s So will magist. larū coclearia iij in claret wyne burnt w^th rosemary. ℥j 5^s. but magister. dee{rer} ℥j x^s. all these to be bought of Mres Waldon. Mres younge.

General treatment notes.

General treatment notes.

king of dēnarke passed thoroug london Iuly 31 ♃ h. 5 12. 5{illeg} a litle after noone.

A recipe (no ℞).

General astrological notes.

How to check (astrologically) whether a servant is good or not.

What to look for in questions about ships.

General astrological notes.

A very intriguing diagram involving a lozenge shape with the letters ‘ABCDEFGHI{illeg}KLM’ around it anticlockwise, and the letters ‘et NOPQRSTVWXYZ’ around the inside anticlockwise.

Alchemical notes.

A recipe (with ℞). (It may relate to one of the entries on either side of it, but there is no clear sign and there is a reference to ‘aq cōtr pest’, when the entry before has no mention of plague and the entry after is not medical.)

General astrological notes (on mutual reception).

General astrological notes.