1562,[Girolamo Ruscelli], anonymous translator,The thyrde and last parte of the Secretes of the reuerende Master Alexis of Piemont[…][1], folio 3r:
TAke the oyle of Castoreum twovnces, oyle roset, and oyle of better Almondes of eche anvnce, of Aqua vite twovnces, mingle al together and seeth it vntill the Aqua vite be consumed.
1563,Thomas Gale,Certaine VVorkes of Chirugerie[…][2], folio 53v:
[…] and when you wil vse it, take of this pouder, iij.Vnces, of Bole armoniack half anvnce, of Puluis alcamisticus onevnce.
1572, John Jones,The Bathes of Bathes Ayde[…][3], folio 32r:
[…] of the séedes of Anise, and cumine, eche onevnce, raysons the stones piked oute, a handfull, boyle all these in a sufficient quantitie[…]