ABSTRACT

The date of the Pepys manuscript is fixed as 1471 by a recipe on f. 17v, in the same hand, for

The most souereyn medycyn for the pes­ tilence Concludyd be docturs of fesycke both be yonde the se and yn ynglond. Also a bowte the kyng in late days yn the Reyngne of kyng Edward the .iiij. ye x yere.