List of herbs [and other medicines]

"Wilcox: List of Herbs [and other medicines]: MS".

Names on the flyleaf: "Hugonis Wilcox" (the Reverend Hugh Wilcox, b. 1582, Pontesbury, Salop); "M[ist]ris Orton att Horsey [or Kersey?] downe" [there is a Horsey Down in Wiltshire, and a Kersey in Suffolk]"; "John"; "Jane".

Other names of contemporary individuals: "Doctor Barker" (f. 94b); "The Reignalds at Sir Will[ia]m Woodhouses at Little Chesterford, [Essex]" [?Sir William Woodhouse (1570-1639), of Waxham, Norfolk].

The bulk of the contents are in English or Latin.

ff 3-13b list of substances, with notes

ff 14-26 list of Latin names, sometimes with English equivalents

ff. 27-58b "De qualitatibus secundis medicamentoru[m] simplicium in genere": lists simple medicaments, arranged into genera according to their action (emollients/aperients/purgatives etc) - list on f 26 gives the sections up to f. 49, but there are further sections after that, including aphrodisiacs ("venere stimulantia"], ff. 51b-52

f. 59 "febrifuga"

f. 60 "Vomitu[m] cientia"

f. 61 "Sudorem provocantia"

ff. 62-63 alphabetical list, A-C only, of various substances

ff 64-65b list of various substance, in a different hand to the rest of the notes

ff.67b-92 detailed notes in Latin on substances, dosages and conditions, with mentions of Dioscorides, Wekerus, Avicenna, Mathiolus (Sienese physician), "medici florentini", "medici colonienses"

f. 92 b "Caried away in the great iron Chest" - clothes and furnishing, and f. 93 'Of lynnen in the same Chest", f. 93b "delivered by Mr Cudner into the handes of Mathew Ely" (includes beaver wool and hats)

f. 94b-96b notes on medicaments etc [mention here of Dr Barker]

f. 97 note relating to the Reignalds and Sir William Woodhouse