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eMarkham, Gervases 1568?-1637. *XG The English house-wife, containing the in- -389A ward and outward vertues which ought to be in 0233 a compleat woman. As her skill in physick, sur- noe gery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distil- lations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth, and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their ex- cellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, (Continued on next card