,
seedy buds of; wormwood.
4. _Fruits_.--Apples (codlings, ginet moils, pearmains, pippins, golden
pippins, red streaks); apricots; barberries; bilberries; cherries (black,
Kentish, Morello); currants (dried, black, red); damsons; dates; jujubes;
juniper berries; lemons; pears (bon chretien & wardens); plums; prunes;
raisins; rasps; sweetbriar berries; strawberries.
5. _Barks, woods._--Ash-tree bark; lignum cassiae.
6. _Nuts_.--Almonds; chestnuts; pine kernels; pistachios; walnuts (green).
7. _Juices_.--Balm; celandine; cherry; hop; lemon; onion; orange;
spearmint; spinach; tansy.
8.--_Distilled waters_ of angelica; cinnamon; mallow; orange-flower;
plantain; rose (red & damask).
9. _Spices_ of all sorts; cloves; cinnamon (also oil of, & spirit of);
ginger; mace; mustard; nutmeg; pepper; peppercorns.
10. _Wines_.--Canary sack; claret; Deal; elder; Malaga (old); Muscat;
Muscadine (Greek); red; Rhenish; sack, sherry sack; Spanish; white.
11. _Other liquors_.--Ale & beer; afterworts; lees of beer & wine; aqua
vitae; orangeado.
12. _Vinegars_ of elder wine, & of white wine.
13. _Verjuice_ of cider, & green sour grapes.
14. _Other notable seasonings and ingredients_:--
Ambergris; ivory; leaf gold; powder of white amber; powder of
pearl; Spanish pastilles (ambergris, sugar, & musk).
NOTES
_Introduction_
p. x 1. 3 _Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine_. By W. Carew Hazlitt.
Booklovers' Library. 1886.
p. x 1. 5 _The Life of Sir Kenelm Digby_. By One of his Descendants [T.
Longueville]. 1896.
p. xi 1. 29 For the controversy about the date of his birth, see the
usual biographical authorities:--Longueville, _op. cit._, Digby's
_Memoirs_, ed. Nicolas, 1827; _Dict. of Nat. Biog._; _Biog. Brit._
(Kippis); Wood's _Athenae Oxon._, iii. 688; Aubrey's _Lives_, ii.
323, etc. etc.
p. xiv 1. 13 "the elder Lady Digby." See text, p. 141.
p. xv 1. 15 "manuscript of elections." See W.H. Black's _Catalogue of
the Ashmolean MSS._, 240, 131 and 1730, 166.
p. xx 1. 20 _Journal of a Voyage to Scanderoon_, ed. J. Bruce for
Camden Soc., 1868.
p. xxi 1. 3 "Scanderoon had to be repudiated." Here is a curious echo
of the affair, quoted by Mr. Longueville from Blundell of Crosby.
"When the same Sir Kenelm was provoked in the King's presence (upon
occasion of the old business of Scanderoon) by the Venetian
Ambassador, who t
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