is now seldom used." "Rosemary-oil cures headaches, is an excellent stomachic, a nerve tonic and, Combined with Borax, prevents premature baldness" "A tea made of Shepherds Purse is good for all kidney complaints." "Sunflower seeds, good Holland gin and sugar make a wonderful remedy for coughs, colds and pulmonary affections." The book describes the shop as "probably the only place in London where he could obtain the ingredients" to make the Aquavita cocktail described in Gervase Markham's The English Housewife: the inward and outward Virtues which ought to be in a complete wife, written in 1649. the following recipe is given: "To make Aquavita" "Take of Rosemary flowers two handfuls of Marjoram, Winter-savory, Rosemary, Rew, TIme, Germander, Rybworte, Harts-tongue, Mousear, Whitewormewood, Buglosse, Red sage, Liver-wort, Hoarehound, fine Lavender, Islop-crops, Penny royall, Red fennell, of each one handful: of Elecompane rootes, cleane pared and sliced two handfuls: then take all foresaid and shred them, but not wash them, then take four gallons and more of strong ale and one gallon of sack lees, and put all these aforsaid hearbes shread into it, and put into it one pound of Licoras bruised, halfe a pound of Aniseeds, Cleane sifted and bruised, and of mace and nutmeg bruised, one of each ounce.Then put together into your stilling pot, close covered with rye paste, and make a soft fire under your pot, and as the head of Limbeck heateth, draw out your hot water and put in cold, but see your fire not be to rash at the first. When the water is distilled take a gallon glasse with a wide mouth and put therein a bottle of the best water and clearest, and put into it a bottle if Rosa solis, halfe a pound of dates, bruised and one ounce of grains and half a pound of sugar, half an ounce of seede pearle beaten, three leaves of fine gold. stirre all these together well. Then stoppe your glasse and set it in the sunne the space of one or two months. Then clarify it and use it at your discretion: for a spoonful or two at a time is sufficient." Curfew Bell pages 43 - 47 Chapter six gives a description of the curfew in London, that it was decreed by William the Conqueror the author notes that a curfew was rang at Oxford in the reign of Alfred the Great and