the case for a Foot-ball but somwhat lesser and very round having thus made your case then proceed to the filling of it which must be done in this manner you must first put in three or foure good spoonfuls of your mixture following and with a stick made round at one end force it close together and so continue filling it and between every filling put in your stick and force it together round it continually in your hand till you have finished it which having done sow it up close and then arme it with smal cord which is called marling after you have thus done you must coat it with a quantity of rosin pitch and tallow dissolved and dip your ball al over in the same provided that you leave two vents to fire it which must be pierced a third part into your bal which must be stopped with two smal sticks till such time that you come to use them the forme thereof you shall see in the next Figure by the Letter D then pulling forth the sticks fil the two vents with sine powder dust and firing it cast it into the water and you shal have your desire but you must alwayes be sure that your bal be throughly fired before you cast it from you The receipt for this bal followeth Take one pound of Powder eight ounces of Roch-water foure ounces of Sulphur two ounces of Camphir one ounce of oyle of Peter one ounce of Linseed Oyle halfe an ounce of oyle of Spike and two ounces of Colophonia 24. Another dainty Water-ball which will shoot forth many Reports THis ball must be made of wood as was shewed before in two pieces because you may joyne it close together at pleasure having small holes bored round about it to put in your quils which justifie the Reports which reports or breakers must be made of paper choaked at both ends and primed through the midst they must bee fastned round with pitch and so covered round about that no water may passe in you must fil this bal in two halfes that you may force it very close together and when it is filled glew it fast and arme it well with nealed wyer then put in your breakers with a quill which must enter into the bal and likewise into the breaker the forme whereof you may see in the Figure following for A. is the mouth of the bal where it is to be fired B. B. are the reports or breakers being made of paper and filled with Corn powder C. C. are the Quils which must be filled with powder dust and serveth for firing the Reports The Receipt for this bal are these Take one pound of Roch-peter foure ounces of Powder-dust three ounces of Sulphur-vive two ounces of Camphir one ounce of Linseed-oyle two ounces of Rosen and one ounce of Oyle Benedict you must powder those things which are to be pondred and mingle them altogether and by little and little sprinkle your Oyles til you have wrought it like Past and then use it the Qulls must be filled only with powder dust because it must fire suddenly 25. How to make a Dragon or the like to run on the Line spitting of fire THe body of the Dragon must be made either with Past board or with fine rods of wicker being hollow with a place in the belly to put in two Rockets and must be so ordered that there may come a small Pipe from the tayle of one to the head of the other then make a place for the eyes and mouth to put into each hole fire which must be made up in rouled paper and thrust in then on the top of the back let there be fastned two small Pullies for a Line to run in which being done your Dragon is finished for firing which must bee thus first fire it at the eyes and mouth alwayes observing that this Receipt must be some slow mixture such as your stars then fire that Rocket which is placed with his mouth toward the tayle of the Dragon which will make it seem to cast fire from thence till he come to the end of his motion and then on a sudden as a creature wounded with some accident shall return with fire comming forth of his belly This being well ordered will give good content to the beholders of the same behold the Figure 26. The manner and forme to represent Saint George fighting with a Dragon in fire on the Line WHen you have formed your Figures of Past-bord or Wicker as afore-said you must make a hollow trunk through the body of each Figure for a great Line to passe through and likewise for a smaller Line to draw them to and fro from each other which must be fastned in this manner as you may see in the Figure following At the breast of the Dragon let one end of one cord be tied which must passe through the body of the George and turning it about a Pulley at the other end fasten it to the back of the George and at the breast of the George let another cord bee tied which must passe through the body of the Dragon or a trunk on the back and so returning about a Pulley at that end must be pulled streight and fastned to the tayle of the Dragon so that as you turne that Wheel the George and Dragon will run furiously at each other and when you please you may cause them to make a retreat and to come on againe But by all means forget not to sope your line extraordinary well and likewise have a care that your work be not too heavie above the line but that they may hang in an equall ballance otherwise they will turn their heels upward which would be a great disgrace to the work and Work-man And thus much to the ingenious I suppose will suffice behold the Figure 27. How to make a Whale a Mermaid or other to play and swim upon the water YOu may make Figures of what shape your fancie best pleaseth the body must be made of light wicker rods and in the middle of the body let there be placed an axel tree having two Wheels comming into the water yet so as they may not be seen these Wheels must be made hollow to containe a quantitie of sand or water the use of it is to keep the bodie of your Figure upright and able to sinke it so farre into the water as is needful and likewise to make it to swim more steadie note that these wheels must be loose and the axel tree fast in the midst of this axel tree place three or foure great Rockets one by another with their mouths all one way yet so provided that there may be such a distance betweene each Rocket that there may come a vent from the taile of the first to the mouth of the second and from the second to the third and to the end that it may continue the longer in motion you may place divers Lights about the bodie to make it the more beautiful
rolling it till you make it somewhat round about the bignesse of a nut or bigger according to the size of the Rocket you may put in a dozen on the head of a small Rocket binding them round with a thread and then draw a cotten wick thorough it being prepared for priming Also there is another way which is thus take a small Rowler about the bignesse of an Arrow and roule a length of paper about it and past it round letting it dry and then you have a hollow trunk of this paper fill this with your ingredience thrusting it hard till it be at the top and then cut it into short pieces about halfe an inch long and then in warme glew dip one of the ends therein and let them dry to the end that both ends of your Starre fire not and then put the other end into powder dust you may put them on your Rocket in one or two tire putting in powder dust betweene every tire that they may all take fire The priming is thus made take oyle of Camphire soking cotten wick therein and being moist roule it in fine powder dust and then hang it up till it be through dry and then keep it close from ayre till you use it or the spirit of the Camphire will decay 12. The order and making of other severall Fire-works for the Rocket as Serpents or fisgigs Reports golden and silver Rain c. THe Serpents or Fisgigs are made about the bignesse of ones little finger by rowling a paper upon a small Rowler as it was for your stars and choking the paper coffin an inch from the end then fill it three inches with powder dust and then choke it and then put in a little corne powder that when your Serpent hath played a while to and fro it may break and give a report you may fill it with the Starre mixture and putting divers of them on the head of a large Rocket they will first appeare like Stars and when the Stars are spent taking hold of the powder dust and they will run wrigling to and fro like Serpents and at last will give so many reports very delightfull to behold The Reports are made in their proper cases as the Serpents are but the paper must be somewhat thicker which will cause it to give the greater report These are to be filled with graine powder or halfe powder and Star mixture To make the golden Raine you must get store of Goose-quils and cut them off next the feathers and fill these quils hard with the same composition that is in your Rocket and must be put on the head of the Rocket with the open end downwards If it were possible to put a thousand of these quils upon the head of a Rocket it were a dainty sight to see how pleasantly they spread themselves in the ayre and come downe like streams of gold much like the falling down of Snow especially if the wind be any thing high If you will make silver Raine it is performed as the other only you must fill your quils with the same ingredients that you did your white stars 13. How to make your fire-works to run upon a line backward and forward TAke small Rockets and place the tayle of one to the head of the other tying a cane to them to run on a line soped the line may be a hundred yards long or longer if you please being well stretched and set on stakes as you may see in the Figure following As admit the Line to be A B C D E F G and if you give fire to the Rocket at A it will fly to B and then come back againe to A. Then fire an other at C and that will fly to D and back againe to C and so of the rest And at the last if you please may be placed a pot of Fire-works which being fired will make good sport having Serpents and other things in it which will variously intermix themselves in the ayre and upon the ground and every one will extinguish it selfe with a report 14. How to make a Wheele of Fire-work to run forward and backward upon the ground YOu must get a paire of light Wheels like spinning Wheels both of a bignesse which must be fastned to a small light axell tree in such manner that they may not move about the same and on the middle of the axell tree fasten also a Fire-wheele as you may see in the Figure following which must not be so big in compasse as the two other wheels because it must not touch the ground so that being fast in the middle upon the same axell tree it cannot run unlesse it carry the other wheels with it these being set on an even ground will run a great way without ceasing Now that you may make it return back againe when it hath run its course forward you may make your middle wheel in such maner that it may have rockets on both sides so that when one side is spent it may give fire to the other side the mouths of the Rockets being fastned the contrary way will make a returne with a swift motion A A. Are the two outward wheels fastned to the axell tree C C. Is the Axel-tree on the which the three wheels are all fastned B Is the Fire-wheel in the middle and carrieth it not so great a compasse as the other two wheels 15. An other way for a single Wheele to be placed on a post to turne both wayes THis may be performed with a single Wheel so that the Rockets may be placed on each side as in the other middle Wheel with a hole from the one side to the other for a vent then place your Rockets first upon side but so that the last Rocket be placed over the said hole and boring a small hole in one side of the last Rocket put in a cotten wick for priming letting it come through the hole in the Wheel to the mouth of another Rocket which shall be turned the contrary way on the other side so that the Wheel having finished its revolution one way may take fire on the other side making a retrograde motion but if you place the Rockets all one way on both sides it will continue twice so long as another of the same bignesse the form of which is expressed in the Figures following D. Is the Wheele with Rockets on one side the last Rocket to have a vent to passe thorow to the other side E. Represents the said Wheele finished with Rockets on both sides 16. The order to make a fixed wheele standing upon a Poast giving divers reports THere must be a Wheele turned two foote wide and out of the upper side must be a groofe turned halfe an inch wide and halfe an inch deepe to which groofe you must have a piece of Wood so fitted that it may just slide in which piece of Wood must have so many small holes bored in it as you will have reports about it and be
the Sun when it is through dry take and lay it over this Print of the Dyall or some other of this nature that you may see the houre lines through it holding of it safe from stirring which may be done by pinning it to the margent then at the Center by the Letter A stick a Needle or Pin upright and laying a streight Ruler close to the Pin draw all those houre lines which you see through the Oyled Paper then take off your Paper and when you would mark out a Dyall doe thus Get a board of what size you please that is smooth plained and will not warp drawing a streight line just downe the middle thereof and lay this Paper thereon and then put your Pin through the Center hole toward the top of the streight line on the board and put another Pin toward the bottome of the line which is your 12 a clock line these two Pins keepeth your Paper steadie Then with a small Bodking prick a hole through every houre line of your paper into the board and then take it off Then stick in your Pin into the Center hole of the board againe and laying the Ruler close to the Pin and close to each hole in the board mark and draw your houre lines And note that you may extend these houre lines to what length you please according to the bignesse of the board And then figure it as you see in this example following Now for the Cock or Stile of your Dyal it must be set in the 12 houre line and must be just equall in height from the boord as the triangular Figure marked with B sheweth the line with pricks is but to direct you which side must be next to the boord The Stile may be made of a thin iron Plate and Simond in or of stiffe Wire the upper end of which must be put just to the Center by A equall to the 6 houre line when this is done you must get some Painter to paint it in Oyle Colours and so set it up RECEIT L. How to make an Horizontall or Flat Dyall to stand upon a Post or other place THis dyal may be made into sundry forms either foure square sixe or eight squares or round as you please and it is to be placed on the head of a Post either in Garden Yard or at the outside of a Glasse-window where the Sun commeth behold the Forme You must note that the houre lines of this Dyal doth varie from the former and so doth the Stile in height But you must work with this as in the other with your oyled Paper to draw the houre lines and to make a line just in the middle for your 12 a clock line The Center of this Dyall is hard by the letter C and must be more neere the middle then the other because it containeth more houres thereon for the other will serve but from 6. to 6. but this from 4. to 8. You may make this Diall in Stone Wood or Mettall And remember to make the height of this Stile or Cock according to this triangle marked with the Letter D. for it must be higher as you may perceive by this sigure You may make Simmon for to fasten the Stile with Rozen powder of Brick and some Chalk mingled together and with a hot Iron melt it into the crevise RECEIT LI. A pretty way to make a Sun-dyall on the seeling of a Room or Chamber whereby you may know the time of the day as you lye in Bed IF you have any Window South-East or South which is best and that is for your turne In the lower Post or Frame of the inside of your Window about the middle fasten with wax a little round piece of Looking-glasse or other glasse about the bignesse of a two-pence you may cut it round with an old pair of Sizers But if you place it higher in your Window on a little ledge it will be the better as you may see here in the Figure setting it levell with the Horizon and the reflection of the Sunne in the Glasse will shew on the seeling the houre of the day the Center of the Dyall must be perpendiculer to the Glasse This Dyall must have no Stile and it must be made like the last Horizontall Diall You may draw the Circle houre lines and figures with a Pencill or coale the black spot is the peece of Looking-glasse The Dyall is the Seeling RECEIT LII How to make a Candle-Dyall whereby you may know the houres of the night ONe Winters evening sitting by the fire me thought there might be some device for a Candle-Dyal At length it came into my head I made a little foure square frame of Wood of a piece of a thin Trencher making the inside thereof fit for the bottome of a Candle-stick to stand in which I did ordinarilie use on two sides of the square I fastened a little piece of Wyre not a quarter of an inch long and just where the Candle-stick should stand on a Table or Boord I made two little holes with a Bodkin for the ends of the two Wyres to goe into and then I set downe my Candle and Candle-stick into the square Having thus done I made another long Frame like the Frame of a Picture and pasted halfe a sheete of white Paper therein upon a thin boord and so hung it up against the wal Then in the Seeling I fastened a smal Pulley and on that Pulley I had two little Plummets of Lead one broader at the bottome then the other and tied them to a piece of Packthread at each end and so hung them in the Pully as you may better apprehend by the Figure The broadest Plummet I pulled down till it gave a shadow on the lower end of the Paper in the Frame on the wall which is now the 1. and 7 a clock line and where the broad bottome cast a shadow I made a speck with my Pen and then turn'd an Houre glasse and when that was runne out I made another specke which is the 2 and 8 line and so of the rest By these divisions you may with a paire of Compasses divide the rest of the houre lines upwards You must pull down the broad Plummet and set it at any time to the houre you please as by this it shewes that it is halfe an houre past 4 or 10 of the clock You must remember to have your Candles alwayes of one size or weight as of the eights or twelves in the pound or such as you usually burne You may take away your Candle and Candlestick out of the square Frame if you have occasion and then set it downe in its place againe which keeps all right I have placed the Figures at each end of the houre lines as from 1. to 7. on the first side and then from 7. to 12. on the other side Note when it is just 7. on the first side then pull down the Plummet to 7. on the other side which I
hold to be the best way RECEIT LIII How to keepe Cherries Pears Nuts or other fruit a yeare as fresh as they came from the tree When they are pretty ripe cut off the stalks and put them into an earthen pot wel leaded and then cover them well with honey then stop the pot with pitch or waxe that no ayre may enter in and then put the pot in some sellar or coole place burying it well in sand and so let it remaine till you use it RECEIT LIV. How to make Grapes and other Fruit to have no stones or kernels IT is said that if ye do plant or set the smaller end of the twig of a vine somewhat deep into the earth which will take root that those Grapes that will grow thereon shall have no stones The like effect hath Peaches Apricocks Damsons Cherries and other Stone-fruits if the small ends of the cyons be grafted into the stocks Also if you bend downe both the ends of an Apple or Peare-tree cyon and graft them on both sides of the stock and the next year when they have growne cut the Cyon in the middle and one shall beare fruit with kernels and the other none RECEIT LV. How to make yellow Roses grow and to make Trees and other things grow green all the yeare I Have been informed that if you will graft a white Rose upon a Broomstalke or on a Furzon bush that the same will bear yellow Roses but they will have no sweet sent Also if you will graft a Rose or other thing upon a Holly-stock the leaves of the same will grow green all the yeare RECEIT LVI How to make Apples Peares and other Fruit of severall colours and to give them a dainty taste of spices IF you will give a pleasant colour to your Fruit doe thus For a red boyle Brasill Turnesoyle or Sanders and for a yellow use Saffron or Turmerick Now to give them a dainty taste and smell you must beat Cloves Mace Cinamon and Nutmegs to powder and mixe them with the water of your colours with some honey Then with an auger bore a hole in the biggest part of the tree unto the middle something sloping downwards and then poure your water and spices into the hole then with a pin made of the same wood or tree beat it hard into the hole and saw off the end and wax it about This must be done in winter before the spring because when the sap riseth the colour sent and taste also ascendeth with the same RECEIT LVII How to know precisely on the Seeling of a Chamber which way the wind blowes at all times THis conceit did I see in King James his Bed-chamber at White-hall the Chamber was an upper Room having a Vaine or Weather-cock of iron placed above the top or tyles of the house which had a long stem of iron which did reach from thence through the Seeling of the Chamber upon which Seeling was pointed a Marriners compasse with the two and thirty winds thereon Now the lower end of the stem of the Vaine came through the Center of the compasse unto which was fastened an index or needle like to those in an ordinary Dyall which doth presently shew how the various wind doth shift from place to place which you may continually know precisely both night and day RECEIT LVIII How to keep drink quicke and fresh that beginneth to be sower and dead IT is good to put a handfull or two of ground Malt into your vessell if it begin to faile and stir the drinke and the Malt well together and this will make it to work afresh and become good againe likewise if you adde new strong drink to the old the dead drink is forced for to work againe to a new head Some doe bury their vessell of drinke in the ground for four and twenty houres and thereby recover it Others doe throw into the vessell a handfull of salt it is also good to tilt your vessell before your drink behalfe out and then it wil draw fresh to the latter end But the best way is to put a handfull or more of Oat-meale into your vessell when it is first laid into the Seller or Butterie whereby it will alwayes carry a quick and lively taste RECEIT LIX An excellent way for baking of Bread that it shal not be hard crusted nor yield so many crums GOe to the Plate-worker such as maketh ordinary Dripping-pans and cause him to make a Pot or Pots of his latten plate which may containe halfe a peck or greater or lesse as you please according as you meane the bignesse of your Loafe shal be Let this Pot be made with a bottome at the lower end and open at the top almost like a Peaker as you may see here by this Figure And when it is done take a little Butter and annoynt the insides of the Pot therewith and when your Dow is molded put it into the same not full to the top and thrust it down hard to the bottome and then set it into an Oven amongst other bread with the lesser end downward and when it is baked it will easily come out This Loafe will have no hard crust nor crumble as other Loaves doe and wil shew smooth standing like a Sugar-loafe upon the Table and in a little compasse RECEIT LX. A dainty strong and glistering Morter or Plaistering for Seelings or for Wals. IT is said that in Italy they much use this Conceit for the Plaistering of their Seelings Floors or Walls which is by mixing and well tempering together Oxen and Cowes blood with fine Loame or Clay and it will be very strong and binding substance and being well smoothed it will glister and become very hard Some few but choice Physicall Receits c. RECEIT LXI Of the great vertues of Crocum Martis fit to be used at this time for the Bloody-Flux which so much now reigneth in the Army THis Crocum Martis is a powder which you may have at the Apothecaries this amongst all other Medicines in the world is the most excellent that can be found against the Bloody-flux giving it in this order Take an ounce of Conserve of Roses and one scruple of Crocum Martis and mix them together then let the Patient eate it in the morning and fast thereon two houres and this by the grace of God wil help him although he had it never so long or never so sore It is also given above all other Medicines in the latter end of a Dropsie and also against the Flux of Menstrue and against bleeding at the nose and all other Fluxes whatsoever It helpeth those that spit blood It is excellent to stop the Flux in Wounds and to heale them and dry them if yee strew the powder thereon RECEIT LXII Of the rare vertue and operation of the Quintessence of Honey for many Diseases with the Oyle of Wax YOu must understand that Honey is rather a liquor Divine then Humane because it falleth from Heaven upon
circle in Paper which shall fit round about the said cap and shall serve to past on the cap to the Coffin So you have all things ready to the finishing of your Rocket which must be done in the manner which followeth R. in the next Figure is the Crackers fastened to the top of the Rocket S. is the cap T. is the Fisgigs finished H. is the stick tyed to the Rocket 8. The manner of finishing a Rocket HAving driven your Rocket as I have shewed with the Paper turned downe you must first prime it which must be with Cotten-wick made for that purpose which you must put into the vent leaving a peece to hang lower then the mouth of the Rocket by three or foure inches which being done tye a peece of Paper over the Mouth that it may not fall out Now having primed your Rocket you may proceed to the heading of it and that is done after this manner Take your Rocket and on the head you should turne down the Paper you must with a Bodkin pierce two or three holes that when the Rocket hath spent it selfe the workes which are in the head may take fire which holes prime with a little Powder-dust and then put on the head with the choaking fitted to your Rocket which must come over the same in such manner that the bottome of the greater part must come even with the top of the Rocket which tye fast to the Rocket with thread and then put in your workes But before you put in your works whether they be Starres or any other works you must put in a little Cotton-wool being rouled in Powder dust to make your starrs to take fire or likewise may blow out Having thus done put in your starrs or other works and if you make more then one tire as you may doe of your starrs then you must put more Cotten rouled in Powder-dust among them or betweene every tire that they may all take fire then take your Cap and fill the hollow place with Cotton because it is light likewise will fire quickly which being fitted paste it close to the top of the Coffin that it may stand upright then must you fit your stick for the peasing of your Rocket which ought to be eight times the length of the Rocket without the head You must get the smoothest and lightest you can such as Basket-makers use and then cut one side of it flat at the great end then make two notches on the round side that the one be differing from the other so much as is betweene the choaking of your Rocket and the end of the Vent for if you should tye it upon the Vent it would loosen the Powder causing it to breake in the fyring Be carefull that you tye not the wrong end of the Rocket uppermost but tye that end downward which is choaked and with a peece of thread that is strong tye it to the lower notch about the choaking When you have tyed that then tye the other higher and let the stick come even with the top of the Rocket The manner whereof is shewed in the next Figure by the Letter G. Then pease your Rocket by laying it on your finger two or three inches from the mouth and if you find the stick be too heavy cut it shorter till you find your Rocket to ballance your stick for if the stick be too heavy the Rocket will be slug and being too light the Rocket will fall before it be halfe up These things being provided you have your Rocket ready to be fired which must be after this manner following 9. The manner of firing Rockets with the description of a Staffe for the same YOu must provide a long Staffe with a Pike at one end to be thrust hard into the ground with a three legged staffe having a hollow hoope at the top to let this long staffe slide up and down to the end that having Rockets whose sticks are longer then the staffe yet by raising it through the said Iron hoope you may make it foure or five foote longer then it would be standing on the ground Now this long staffe must have a sliding peece cut with severall poynts which must be neere the top and at the bottome there must be a Ring of Wyer to let the stick goe through which must be made likewise to slide up and down so thrusting the small end through the said Ring your Rocket will rest upon that part above which must be just opposite in a streight line so open the mouth of your Rocket and pull out the end of your Cotton-wick and with a piece of Match fastened in a Linstock give fire to the wicke and by degrees you shall see it fire your Rocket which ordered well will mount very streight and high Thus having shewed the whole order of composing a Rocket with firing of the fame I will in the next place shew you the order for making of Starrs and other works which are necessary for the heads of your Rockets The Figure of the Rocket and the staffe are here presented The Letter G. is the Rocket with the long stick A. The long Staffe to rise thorough the Ring B. B. B. The three legged Staffe C. The Ring or Hoope of Iron for the long staffe to slide thorow D. The Screw to fasten to the long staffe being raised E A piece of Iron filed with notches to hang the Rocket on F. The Ring of Wyre to put thorow the stick to be raised higher or lower G. Is the Rocket H. The long stick 10. Severall compositions for the ordering of Starres of severall colours IF you will have your Starres of a blew colour with red then take eight ounces of Powder mealed of Salt-peter foure ounces and of Sulphur vive twelve ounces Meale these very fine and mix them together with two ounces of Aquavita and halfe an ounce of the Oyle of Spike and let it be dry before you use it If you will have a beautifull white fire take foure ounces of Powder twelve ounces of Salt-peter six ounces of Sulphur vive and halfe an ounce of Camphire meale your Ingredients and mix them Now to powder your Camphire you must use a Brasse Morter and a Pestle dipping it in Oyle of Almonds so stirring it by degrees it will powder and then keepe it close from the Ayre till you use it or the Camphire will loose its spirit If you will have a white fire and to last long then take foure ounces of Powder one ounce of Salt-peter eight ounces of Sulphur vive one ounce of Camphir and two ounces of Oyle of Peter Meale those which are to be mealed very fine and mixe them according to the former directions 11. The order and manner of making the best sort of Starres HAving shewed the compositions for Stars now I will shew you how to make them which is thus you must make little square pieces of brown paper which fill with your composition and so double it downe