SIR WALTER RALEGH RESTORED TO HIS PLACE [2ND JUNE
SIR WALTER RALEGH RESTORED TO HIS PLACE
Yesterday, the Earl of Essex being absent. Sir Walter Ralegh
was brought to the Queen by Sir Robert Cecil She used km.
very graciously and gave him authority to execute his place as
Captain of the Guard, which he immediately undertook, and
swore many men into the places void In the evening he rode
abroad with the Queen and had private conference with her,
and now he comes boldly to the Privy Chamber as he was wont
Though this is done in the absence of the Earl yet is it known
to be with his lilnng and furtherance There is now love and
kindness in all things* between the Earl and the Lord Treasurer,
and all furtherance given to his desires About twelve days
since the Lord Treasurer allowed the passing of a lease that by
him was delayed these three years
yd June LA:S CHAM'S * GARDEN OF HEALTH.*
Mr William Langhara, practitioner in physic, hath by his
long experience gathered together the sundry rare and hidden
virtues of all kinds of herbs and plants into a book entitled
The Garden of Health, all which simples, being plainly described
in the book, can be gotten without any cost or labour, the most
of them being such as grow in most places and are common
among us And for the better direction of the reader, the
simples are set down in the order of the alphabet, with two
general tables added, the one containing all the simples in order,
the other setting down the names of the diseases and other
operations needing these simples for any remedy for the same
Noteth among many others, these remedies A fig tied to a
bull will make him tame though he be never so wild The
flowers of the bugloss comfort the brain, heart, memory and wit,
mgender good blood, and void melancholy, madness and
frenzy, and purge also the choler that cometh from heat
For chastity, commendeth agnus castus, docks, hemlocks,
vemne, woodbine, but to provoke lust, anise, artichoke,
carrots, garhck, ginger, mints, mustard, parsnips, radish and
others Bnony is good for the rising or suffocating mother
For the hair, black and white helebore is good for worms in
the head and falling hair, as also aloes, garlic, leeks, mustard,
nettle, oak, walnuts, and others; milsoil maketh it to curl,
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