from Pliny, who says if the wine be mixed with water, the wine sokes through the wood, but the water remains.

8. To make a pretious water that Doctor Steuens did greate cures with, and kepte it secret tyll a little before his death, then taughte it to the Archbishop of Canterburye.-Take a gallon of white Gascoigne wine, ginger, gallingall, cynamon, nutmegs, graynes, cloves, annis seeds, fennell seedes, carraway seedes, of every of them like much, viz. a dram of each; then take sage, red mintes, red roses, time, pellitory of the wall, rosemarye, wilde time, and gromell, lavender (the flowers if you can get them), of every of them an handfull; then beate the spices small, and the hearbes allso; then put them all in ye wine, and let it stand therein twelve houres, stirringe it divers times; then still it in a lymbecke; and the first water being greene, put it by itselfe, for it is the best; the second water being white, is good, but not so good as the first; put that by itselfe; it is good

for all manner of diseases, to drinke it fastinge, and at nighte laste, at every time a spoonefull; it is a presious and noble water, for a spoonefull is a preservative.

This, no doubt, was a precious cordial for the days it was in use. But we ques

tion whether water made of wine and spices, however skilfully combined, or slowly or coldly drawn, was half so exhilarating as ratafia or golden cordial, or eau-de-Cologne, or Geneva's famous water of juniper. We have never yet discovered the recipe for making the water of the gods, or seen a diagram of the "lymbecke" in which it was distilled; but we are certain that the Moors did no good to the beverage of Western Europe, when they brought with them into Spain the Egyptian art of distillation. Henry Earl of Cumberland, who was borne in 1517, and died in 1564, was, according to the Pembroke Memoirs, "much addicted to alchemy and chemistry, and a great distiller of waters." Pindar was very right

when he said "Water is the best."

13. To make an akeing tooth fall out.-Take wheate meale, and mixe therewith the milke of the hearbe called spurge, and make thereof past or doughe, with which ye shall fill the hollowe of the tooth, and let it be there a certayne time, and the tooth GENT. MAG. VOL. IV.

will fall out of it selfe. Allso, if you washe your mouth and teethe once a month with wine wherein the roote of this hearbe hath bene sodden, you shall never have payne in your teethe.

There can be no doubt but the caustic quality of the juice of almost every species of spurge, especially of Euphorbia peplus, applied to the human teeth, will corrode them rapidly. From its likeness to cream, and its severely acrid nature, the Irish call the plant that produces it, the "devil's churn." In England, from its being used to destroy warts, it is called wart-wort. Turner, the father of English botany, uses the name under peplis, and speaks of the burning taste of the seawart-wort which he saw growing in an island near Venice. Gerard also, who built his Herbal on foundations laid by Turner, tells of the horribly acrid quality of sea-spurge, which he experienced in company with Turner's ancient friend, Master Rich, in a walk along the seacoast, near Lee, in Essex.

15. For him that hath naturally a red face. Take foure ownces of the kyrnells of peaches, and three ownces of gorde seedes, and make thereof an oyle, wherewith you shall anoynte his face morninge and eveninge; this will kill and destroye all redness. A thinge founde true by experience.

This recipe, if it was intended for the benefit of the fair sex, as well as of the gentlemen, might be found to furnish a very acceptable cosmetic for the toilettes of the blooming beauties of the country, who long to exchange the rosy hues of Hebe for the wan enchantments that lighten in the smiles of loveliness in fashionable life. We doubt its efficacy in removing the roseate hues that the liquor of cogniac suffuses over the face, much less in dimming the splendour of the crops of jewels that brandy produces on certain promontories, and, as their name implies, "shine in the dark, like a lighted coal."

19. To make the face fayre.-Take the blossomes of beanes, and distill them, and wash the face in that water, and it will be fair.

'The blossoms of beans!' Who that is enamoured of the fields and nature, has not inhaled their delicious Persian perfume; and has not been struck with the

blackness of the beauty-spot on their corolla? We certainly recommend a place on the toilette of the fair for this delicious water, as the perfumer, on distillation, will really find that it retains the fragrance F

of the flower; which we, however, do not suspect of yielding an essential oil, and consequently are not sanguine in our hopes of seeing the water of bean-flowers rivaling the ottar of roses.

21. To take away wartes.-When you kill a pigge, take the hot bloude, and washe the wartes, and let it drye on them; then presentlye after wash them, and they shall be whole.

Whoever practised this receipt with success, mixed the pig's blood with some matter, which he kept a secret; for, though we never tried the experiment, we are sure that blood, as it flows warm and unadulterated from an animal, can have no manner of effect in removing warts, or any other schirrhus tumour; but warm blood is a convenient vehicle for a quack to use in working medical

miracles.

22. To remedye baldnes of the heade. Take a quantitye of Suthernwoode, and put it upon kindled coales to burne; and being made into powder, mix it with the oyle of radishes and anoynte the balde place, and you shall see great experiences.

What is here meant by experiences?' Changes? A new growth of hair, or a natural wig? Johnson is not quite right when he says that whey is one of the meanings of whig. He should have said sour whey; for till within the last forty years we remember a very agreeable summer beverage called whey-whig, being used by the people of Westmoreland, and made of whey with savoury herbs, such as mint, balm, and time, steeped in it, till it became slightly sour, and impregnated with the essential oil of the herbs. Of milk and whey they also said that it was gone, wented, whiyged, or changed when it had turned sour. The word wig, as applied to an artificial covering of hair, has also that application, from a wig being a substitute or change for natural hair. And wig and wigh, in composition in the names of towns, means new or changed, and in some instances, as in its application to the Godmundingaham of Bede, Wighton means the idol's town, because idols were substitutes. If ointment of the oil of radishes, and the ashes of southern, should be found still to possess the virtue of covering bald heads with a crop of natural hair, how many elderly gentlemen, dear Mr. Urban, will be congratulating themselves with its delightful experiences,' after you kindly communicate to them this charming prescription!

30. A good drinke for are bewitched or foresp rosemary three braunches comfrye, halfe a handful half a handfull of tyme, th of hearbegrace, a quar water, and seeth it tyll sumed, and then strayn take one nutmegge, a ginger, one pennywor two pennyworth of them into the water, a first and laste a qu warme; and eate five time after you hav

of the Saint represented above. The canopies over the head of each figure are uniform, hexagonal in plan, and surmounted by a filiated cupola between two pinnacles. The canopies are relieved with a background of a cerulean blue, and each of the effigies with a richly diapered curtain, or hanging, of cloth of gold. So far the general features of the whole resemble each other. The particular description of each statue is as follows:

S. Matheus.

An aged man with grey beard and bald forehead, clothed in a tunic or surcoat of scarlet with blue sleeves, a white cope or mantle lined with yellow, fastened at the throat; he holds his Gospel on his left hand, a richly bound and clasped volume in the antique style; on the shield below, the emblem of the Trinity, which may be thus blazoned heraldically:- Gules, an orle and a pall conjoined Argent, thereon four bezants, two in chief, one on the fesse point, and one in base, the two in chief inscribed: the dexter with the word" Pater," and the sinister with "Filius, the one on fesse "Deus," "S'c't's Sp's;" on each of the three parts of the orle the words non est," and on each of the parts of the pall the word "est."

and the one on base,

"

S. Marcus.

In a long green robe with red sleeves, surmounted by a white chasuble; he holds his Gospel in his right hand. The shield is Azure, on the fesse point the Star of Bethlem within the crown of thorns, between three Rails all Proper-a shield of the Passion.

S. Lucas.

Attired in a blue robe with a white mantle, his Gospel in his right hand; the shield, Gules, a spear in bend, surmounted with a staff, with the sponge in bend sinister Proper; over all a cross Argent, having a scroll on the fesse point, charged with the letters J. P. R. T. Also a shield of the Passion.

D. Johannes.

The youthful appearance of this Saint is preserved; his robe is grey, surmounted by a white cope, his Gospel in his right hand. The shield Azure, on a mount Or, the Agnus Dei Argent, the head regardant and encircled with a nimbus Or, bearing a

banner Argent ensigned with a cross Gules.

Above the principal figures, and occupying the minor compartments of the subarches, are the well-known symbols of the Evangelists, deduced from the prophecies of Ezekiel and the Visions of St. John; they are so arranged as to be placed nearly over the figures of the Saints to whom they relate. It is almost needless to add, that these emblems are an Angel, a Lion, a Calf or Bull, and an Eagle. They are here represented white on a red ground. In the spandrils are the sacred monograms, A 2 and J. H. D. Above is the descending Dove.

The donors of this splendid window have caused a very simple memorial of their beneficence to appear in the design. At the bottom of the window, on a ribbon, is the following inscription. Deo et Ecclesiæ Fratres Hoare dicaverunt, A'o D'ni M.DCCC.XXX.III; and this, almost hidden by the ornaments of the altar, is the whole record of the donation of this splendid window.

In consequence of this modest retiring feeling, the artist was left to form his own design, and he shows throughout a close resemblance to ancient examples, on which sacred emblems alone formed the ornamental detail. No vain display of family pride, no pomp of heraldry is visible. The only record of the donors is a simple inscription, set up not for the gratification of vanity, but for the information of the historian.

Will the day never arrive when so pleasing, so appropriate, so innocent an embellishment to our churches, as stained glass, shall be universally introduced? Let us hope that it will -that one day we shall see a little of the surplus wealth of the times dediembellishment of the house of God. cated to the decent and appropriate When that period arrives, it is to be hoped that windows like the present will be constructed, instead of those vain displays of corporate and individual heraldry which we too often meet with on the altar windows of our ancient churches, in situations where those ornaments alone should be introduced, which may harmonize with the sacred character of the place, and accord with the feelings which ought solely to predominate.

E. I. C.