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The English and French cook : describing the best and newest ways of ordering and dressing all sorts of flesh, fish and fowl, whether boiled, baked, stewed, roasted, broiled, frigassied, fryed, souc'd, marrinated, or pickled; with their proper sauces and garnishes: together with all manner of the most approved soops and potages used, either in England or France. By T. P. J. P. R. C. N. B. and several other approved cooks of London and Westminster.
Date: 1674
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Nuncius astrologicus : or, the astrological legate: demonstrating to the world the success that may probably (by the influences of the stars) be expected from the present unhappy controversie, between the two northern kings: deduced from the nativity of His Royal Majesty of Denmark. / By John Gadbury, philomathēmatikos.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704Date: 1660
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Truth brought to light, or, The last words of a dying-man : being the speech of William Dillon Esquire, executed the twenty fifth of February, 1662, for the death of J. Web, lately killed in a frey in Long-Acre.
Dillon, WilliamDate: [1662]
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The graces folowyng be grau[n]ted to al the bretherne [and] systers benefactours and good doers vnto the hospytall of ye blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke fou[n]ded [and] establyssyd w[ith]in the cyte Excester : the daye that they do say a pater noster an Aue, [and] a crede it is grau[n]ted them that they shal neuer be infecte not greued w[ith] the stroke of ye pestylence as more playnly it dothe appere in hys legende how and whan al myghty god graunted thys petycyon to the sayd blessyd co[n]fessour Saynt Rocke, [and] sent yt by hys angell Raphaell.
Date: [1522]]
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Guilielmi Harveii Exercitationes anatomicæ, de motu cordis & sanguinis circulatione : cum duplici indice, capitum & rerum : quibus accesserunt Jo. Walæi, de motu chyli & sanguinis, epistolæ duæ : itemque dissertatio de corde Doct. Jac. de Back, Medici Roterodamemsis.
Harvey, William, 1578-1657Date: 1660
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The nature & effects of the new-found well at Kinghorne: declared by William Barclay, Master of Artes and Doctour of Physicke, and written in a letter to my lord the Earle of Dumfermeling, and Chancellar of Scotland.
Barclay, William, 1570?-1630?Date: Anno Domini 1618
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An advertisement of concern to the city and nati[on] : These are to signifie, that the famous and most approved lozenges, made by John Piercy, Gent. whose ability and skill is so well known, for these 27. years and upwards.
Piercy, John, active 1665Date: [1665?]
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A werke of preparacion, or of ordinaunce vnto communion, or howselyng : The golden pystle, an alphabete or a crosrowe called an .A.B.C. and the werke for housholders with a dayly exercyce and experience of dethe all duely corrected and newly prynted.
Whitford, Richard, active 1495-1555?Date: [1537?]
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Disputatio medica inauguralis continens theoriam morborum soporosorum : Quam, praeside Deo opt. max. ex authoritate magnifici rectoris, D. Lucae Schacht ... ; nec non amplissimi senatûs academici consensu, & almae facultatis medicae decretô, pro gradu doctoratus, summisque in medicina honoribus & privilegiis ritè ac legitimè consequendis, publico examini subjicit Petrus Fridericus d'Orville, Moeno-Francofurtensis. Ad diem 29 Septembr. locô horisque solitis.
Orville, Peter Friedrich d', active 1684.Date: MDC LXXXIV. [1684]
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Swallow : an almanack for the year of our Lord God 1661 : being the first after bissextile or leap year, and from the worlds creation 5664 : calculated properly for the meridian of the universitie and town of Cambridge.
Swallow, JohnDate: 1661
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Dove, Speculum anni à partu Virginis MDCLVIII, or, An almanack for the yeare of our Lord God 1658 : being the second after bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation, 5662 : calculated properly for the ... town of Cambridge.
Dove, JonathanDate: 1658
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By the King : a proclamation for restraint of killing, dressing, and eating of flesh in Lent, or on fish-dayes, appointed by the law, to be hereafter strictly obserued by all sorts of people.
England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I)Date: M.DC.XXVI [1626, i.e. 1627]
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The Oxford almanack 1678.
Wheeler, Maurice, 1647 or 1648-1727Date: [1678]
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Woodhouse 1683 : a new almanack for the year of our Lord 1683 : being the third from the bissextile or leap-year, and from the worlds creation 5632 : wherein is contained a brief description of the four quarters of the year : excellent notes of husbandry and gardning [sic] for every moneth in the year : with the names of all the principal fairs, and a description of the high-ways in England and Wales / by John Woodhouse.
Woodhouse, JohnDate: 1683
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A new almanacke and prognostication, for the yere of our Lorde. M. D. lxviii : beyng leape yere, wherin is set forthe and shewed the chau[n]ge of the moone, with her full and quarters, the varietie of the ayer and windes, the conuenient tymes to take medicines: also to sowe, sette, plante, grafte, gelde or libbe beastes, and many other necessarie notes, as in the table of the contentes, you maie aesely and euidently see and perceiue. Perfectly made and calculated, for the meridian and pole artike of London, beyng exalted 51. degrees, 34. minutes. By M. Thomas Buckmaster. Seruyng for all Englande. Also the moste principall faires, verie necessarie for all people, that dooe resorte to the same.
Buckminster, Thomas, approximately 1531-1599?Date: [1568]
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An exact description of the grovvth, quality, and vertues of the leaf tea / By Thomas Garway in Exchange-Alley near the Royal Exchange in London, tobacconist, and seller and retailer of tea and coffee.
Garway, ThomasDate: [1660?]
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The marrow of alchemy : being an experimental treatise, discovering the secret and most hidden mystery of the philosophers elixer : divided into two parts, the first containing four books chiefly illustrating / by Eirenæus Philoponos Philalethes.
Philalethes, EirenaeusDate: 1654
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This is the myrour or glasse of helth : necessary and nedefull for euery person to loke in, that wyll kepe theyr body from the syckenes of the pestylence: and it sheweth howe the planettes raygne, in euery houre of the daye and the nyght: with the natures and exposicions of the .xii. sygnes, deuided by the .xii. monthes of the yere. And sheweth the remedyes for manye diuers infyrmytes and diseases, that hurteth the body of man.
Moulton, ThomasDate: [not after 1531]]
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The Gentleman's new jockey, or, Farrier's approved guide : containing the exactest rules and methods for breeding and managing horses, &c. ... especially what relates to racing or running, coursing, travel, war, &c., with directions for heats, dieting, dressing ... ; to which is added a second part, containing many rare and new secrets, never before made publick ... ; illustrated with sundry curious & necessary cuts.
Date: 1691
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Rudston. 1607 : A new almanacke and prognostication, for the yere of our Lord God[,] 1607[.] being the third from the leape yeare. Rectified and faithfully sup[putat]ed for the latitude [and] meridian of the tresfamous Uniuersitie of Cambridge, where the pole Arctik is eleuated 52. degrees 20. minutes, and may very well serue for the whole monarchie of Great Britaine. Amplified with many additions of rules, tables, and directions conducible for all men.
Rudston, Thomas, active 1606-1613Date: [1607]
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Britains royal star: Or, An astrological demonstration of Englands future felicity : deduced from the position of the heavens as they beheld the earth in the meridian of London, at the first proclaiming of his Sacred Majesty King Charles the second, on May 8. 10h. 56m. A.M. 1660. And an enquiry made into the use and abuse of astrologie, resolving whether it be convenient to be continued or contemned. Also, an admirable observation of a conjunction of Jupiter and Mars made in the year 1170. by a learned monck of Canterbury, communicated to the learned in astronomy. Together with an exaination and refutation of that nest of sedition, published by Mr. H. Jessey, concerning frogs, dogs, &c. in his pamplet falsly intituled, The Lods Loud call to England, &c. / By John Gadbury, philomathematicus.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704Date: 1661. [i.e. 1660]
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An astrological discourse vpon the great and notable coniunction of the tvvo superiour planets, Saturne & Iupiter, which shall happen the 28 day of April, 1583 : with a briefe declaration of the effectes, which the late eclipse of the sunne 1582, is yet heerafter to woorke / written newly by Richard Harvey, partely to supplie what is wanting in com[m]on prognostications, and partely by pædiction of mischiefes ensuing, either to breed some endeuour of preuention by foresight, so farre as lyeth in vs, or at leastwise, to arme vs with pacience beforehande.
Harvey, Richard, 1560-1623?Date: Anno Domini 1583
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MDCLXXXI. An almanack of coelestial motions for the year of the Christian epocha 1681 : being in our account second after leap-year and from the creation 5630 ... calculated for the meridian of Boston in New-England where the Artick Pole is elevated 42 degrees & 30 minutes / by John Foster, Astrophil.
Foster, John, 1648-1681Date: 1681
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Poor Robin 1671 : an almanack after a new fashion : wherein the reader may see (if he be not blind) many remarkable things worthy of observation : being the 3d after bissextile, or leap-year : containing a two-fold kalendar, viz. the Julian, or English, and the round-heads, or fanaticks : with their several saints days, and observations upon every moneth / written by Poor Robin.
Poor RobinDate: [1669?]
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Collegii Medicorum Londinensium fundatores & benefactores.
Date: [1662])