shall appeare in his perfect colours and shall continue so a long while FIrst cause a board to be made foure square of what dimension you please which let be ½ an inch thicke and cause a Painter or some drafts man to trase out what Armes or other figure you please upon the said board also let there be another which shall bee an inch and ½ thicke and of the same breadth which fasten to the other with some small tackes till you have boared so many holes as you have occasion for which shall behalfe an inch asunder and likewise halfe an inch boare then boare your holes thorow your inch board and let them enter an inch into the thicker planke then make foure square holes one at each corner in the thicker planke to receive foure square pieces of wood which must be an inch square which glue fast into foure holes opposite to the other in the thinner planke to the end it may slide to and fro then fasten an iron rod in the midst of the thinner so that it may come thorow the thicker planke and be fastened to a piece of wood which may turne upon a joynt to the end you may draw the thinner square neerer as your fire consumes and must draw it too foot at least then provide a small arrow of two foot long and upon it rowle so much paper till it fill your small holes exactly then fill so many as you have holes already provided in your square and put them thorow the thinner piece and the ends thereof into the thicker which let be glued fast into the bottome of that so that they may stand very fast and likewise let them passe so easily thorow the other holes that the board may slide nearer or further to or from the fire at pleasure then fit a piece of past-board so that it may come close about these rouled lances and may fit as exactly as the board doth at the other end and let this come within halfe an inch of the firing end then prime them all with quicke powder dust and cover it over with paper which having performed you are ready against such time as you have occasion to fire it which must be after this manner observing which side the winde is stand on that side and fire it at the lower corner so that by the helpe of the winde you shall have it all fire at once which having burnt a while will come to the past-board and fire it so that falling away there will be represented a Coat of Armes in colours close to your fire which may be drawne in by one standing behinde so that it shall seeme alwaies to be standing in one place and the light not to grow shorter till the last The forme of this frame is presented in the seventh figure C D. A The frame without the scutcheon or letters B The backe side of the frame with an iron rod passing thorow it and fastened to the other part and the moving part which slideth to and fro as occasion proffers D The frame finished ready to put in your lances F Represents the face of the frame or thinner board G The inner part of the fixed piece with holes boared in each alike to put in your lances of rowled paper filled with slow composition CHAP. XXIV How to represent an antike dance by the helpe of fire which shall move in a circular forme CAuse a board to bee made of two foot square so that one side of it may bee hollowed or grooved to lay your rockets in then cause another board to bee made of the same largenesse so that it may sit close on the other the rockets lying betweene and in the center of the same board place a brasse socket which must passe thorow the other for the center pinne to enter into it then place your antike figures on the top of the said board with wiers passing thorow both to the end they may be turned about in their motion by certaine pinnes placed in another board which must stand fixed so that moving about the said board the pinnes take hold of the wiers which come thorow and turne them backward and forward but in regard of the extraordinary violence of this motion it will teare all in pieces unlesse you have a great care in making all things to runne very exactly which must bee tried before you come to use it The order of this is represented in the seventh Figure by the letter E. A B C D The bottome board which stands fixed with a socket to put on a long pole and hath a small pinne standing at each corner E E E The under board which moveth in which is placed the rockets F F The uper board which is fastened to the other wherein the rockets are placed G G The wiers passing thorow both boards which are fastened to the foot of each anticke H H The other wiers which stand fast in the fixed board and are to turne about the antickes passing by them CHAP. XXV Another way for making an anticke dance which is not so violent as the former TAke one of your large sort of wheeles and fasten it on an iron axeltree so that the wheele move the axeltree with his motion then let there bee a screw filed on the said axeltree which may bee fitted to a small wheele of tenne teeth or thereabouts as you please for the more teeth there is in the wheele the slower it goeth and easier et contra which wheele let it be so fastened to an axeltree on which the board bearing the antickes must stand that the fire wheele turning about verticall may move your worke hirozontall which will move so slow that the fire wheele will be tenne times about before your Motion will move once about which being done neatly will prove a worke of great contentment The forme whereof is expressed in the seventh Figure by the letter F. A The fire wheele placed on an iron axelrree and made fast to it B The screw made on the said axeltree or filed out of the same stuffe C The wheele which the aforesaid screw must be fitted to runne with which must have so meny teeth as you intend the fire wheele shall move about for once of your motion D The square board on which the antickes stand and is fastened to the axeltree which hath the wheele E A place for a light to burne so long as the worke indureth F F F The detentes or pieces which come thorow the board from the foot of each anticke G G G Certaine pinnes standing upright in the fixed board to the end that the others passing by may be turned about CHAP. XXVI How to compose a Castle of fire worke with the manner of placing the workes in a true order PRepare a Castle of wood or plate of what largenesse you please the which shall bee made foure square with round towers and battlements and on the top or inner part of that worke let there bee a
now I come to speak of those of a greater magnitude which cannot so easily bee forced with fire in a straight line without some artificiall help for Art must bee alwayes as a handmaid attending on Nature to help her in her work therefore having prepared a large dragon you must make divers hollow truncks of wood within the body which shall bee to cast out fire and on a sudden divers small bals of fire other times a great number of small fisgigs Now to make this run on the line you must have a hollow trunck fastned on the back between the wings of your dragon which must bee somewhat bigger than your cord with a small hole thorow each end the use of those small holes is to fasten a small cord which must be so fastned that one end thereof must bee fastned at the head of the Dragon and so passe over a pulley which pulley shall bee fastned at the end of the line and returning thorow that hollow trunck in the back it shall be put over another pulley at the other end of the line and so making a return shall be fastned to the hole in the hinder part of the trunck Now one of these pulleys shall have a handle or winch to turn it about which shall cause the dragon to move and shall be a help to the drawing of it backward and forward at your pleasure after this manner you may form many works on the line which otherwise cannot be done The form of this is set down in the eleventh figure by the letter A. fig 10 A representeth the dragon ready finished with all his works B C the manner of the hollow trunck which the cord must passe thorow B the place for fastning of a small cord which must passe over the pulley marked D. D the manner of fastning that pulley which must bee at the further end of the line o o o o the manner of the passing of the sayd line which is thorow the hollow trunck and so over the pulley marked E and then fastned to the other end of the trunck marked G. F a handle or winch belonging to one of the pulleys which maketh the dragon move forward and backward as occasion profereth H H the great line on which the dragon passeth and is only for keeping it steaddy in the motion CHAP. XXXIII How to represent S. George fighting with a Dragon in fire on 〈…〉 HAving prepared your figures artificially made you must make a hâ—llow tâ—â—nck thorow the body of each fiâ—â—â—e foâ— a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to passe thorow 〈◊〉 likewâ—se for a smaller linâ— to draw them 〈◊〉 from each other which mâ—st bee fastned in â—â—is manner at the breast 〈◊〉 â—he dragon let one end of one cord be 〈◊〉 which shall passe thorow the body of the George and returning it about â— pulley at the othâ—r end fasten it to the back of the George and aâ— the breast of the Georgâ— let â—nâ—â—her cord be tied which shall passe thorow the body of thâ— dâ—â—gon oâ— a trunck on the back and so returning about a pulley at that 〈◊〉 shaâ—â— be pulled straight and fastned to the tayle of the dragon 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 you turn that wheele the George and dragon will runne furiously at each other and when you please you may cauâ—â— theâ— to make a retâ—eat and come on againe divers times but in all th 〈…〉 forget not to 〈◊〉 your line extraordinary well and likewise have 〈…〉 that yo 〈…〉 not too heavy above the line but that they may hang equâ—â—râ—â—â— â—theâ—wise they will turn their heeles upward which 〈◊〉 beâ— a great disgrace to the work and workman there might bee 〈◊〉 wâ—â—tten upon this same subiect but to the ingenious I think it iâ—â—ufficient thâ—y may order their workâ— according to their own fa 〈…〉 e is the ground of the matter The manner of this is repr 〈…〉 eleventh figure by the letter B. C represening the George D the dragon E the small line fastned to the head of the dragon and passeth thorow the body of the George fig 11th F the pulley which guideth the said line G the place of fastning the other end of that line H another line fastned to the breast of the horse which passeth thorow the hollow trunck of the dragon I the pulley about which it passeth and is fastned to the tayle of the dragon K the place of fastning the said line to the dragon L L the great line which guideth these two figures M the winch or handle fastned to one of the pulleys and is for the moving them forward or backward CHAP. XXXIV How to make a trunck of fire which shall cast forth divers fire bals PRovide a trunck of foure inch boare and two foot long with a hollow place in the bottom of two inch boare as much deep to the end it may be put on a strong post let there be a bottom left between the two boares which shall be two inches thick so that there will be twenty inches left for your work which shall bee filled as followeth first fill it with corne powder one inch then put in your ball which shall be five inches and a halfe and round about it put powder dust till you come to the top then fill it two inches and a halfe with slow mixture and on that two inches of corn powder then put in another ball and after it slow mixture which shall be filled to the top and so reserve it for your use note that you must turn three places for arming of it which must be done either with iron hoops or else with cords to the end the violence of your corn powder burst it not your upper ball shall be made after this manner Having made ready a case of canvas fill it with this mixture following Take 1 l. of salt peter ½ l. of powder dust ¼ l. of sulphur vive 2 â„¥ of camphire 1 â„¥ of oyle of peter Mix these very well till it become somewhat tough and then fill your ball and arm it leaving foure vents into which you shall put foure small sticks till such time you have coated the manner of coating is to dip the ball in a mixture of pich rosin tallow and sulphur but this is for bals of longer continuance the coating for â—his ball shall be as followeth The receipt for coating ½ l. of pitch ¼ l. of vernish 1 â„¥ of sulphur vive 2 â„¥ of powder dust Melt your pitch and sulphur and then poure in your vernish and powder dust and while it is hot dip in your ball and then cast a little fine powder dust over it and so let it coole a little and then dip it lightly againe and so you have it ready when you use it pull out your foure sticks out of the vents and fill them with powder dust and so put them in The lower ball which is last fired shall be full of starres with powder dust intermixed to break the ball these shall be primed
lesser tower of the same fashion with a Vane on the top or such a like Figure which having provided let there be a place made close to the battlements or within one inch of them to lay your conveiances which let be of brasse which is for your reports which must be placed betweene each battlement and shall have little pipes of brasse to give fire to each report which must be screwed into the great conveiance which conveiance let be filled with your composition for rockets of 1 l. which is one pound of powder to 3â…“ â„¥ of coale dust and by this meanes you shall have them all fire in order without any confusion which having spent it selfe shall give fire to another conveiance which shall be placed further in with a strong wall betweene so that the fire of one doe not offend the other the use of this conveiance is to place divers rockets on so that they may fire one after another and shall take fire as soone as the reports are ended Now for the foure large towers you shal provide foure pieces of wood turned and fitted to slide in exactly and shall have divers smooth holes boared round thorow the out side of your tower and the wood till they meet with the hollow which passeth from the top to the bottome or within an inch which hollow shall bee one inch and a halfe diameter and must be filled with a very slow mixture to the end it may continue as long as the worke is a burning then place some Fisgigs round in those little holes so that the mouths may be inward and primed which will take fire one after another and flye out on every side of your Castle which will give great content for the manner of firing this I could wish that it were first fired at the foure uper towers and that through one of the corners may bee a hole which may goe to the uper conveyance that so those reports may fire next and at the end of that conveyance shall be another to passe downe to the lower tier of reports and at each corner of that conveyance shall be a hole to passe into those lower towers so that by that time all the reports are fired the towers shall be all on fire then at the end of that conveyance as I said before let your conveyance for your rockets bee placed which taking fire orderly will conclude the worke These and the like are for the pleasure of princes and great personages rather then for the vulgar The forme of this Castle is laid downe in the eight Figure by the letter A. B B B Expresseth the angles of the lower tower C C C The angles of the higher tower D D The conveiance that fires the reports E The conveyance passing to the rockets F F F The Fisgigs placed round each angle G G Reports placed on the battlements H H Rockets placed farther in with a wall betweene CHAP XXVII How to represent divers motions in a Castle of fire-worke CAuse a frame to be made placing thereon two Castles that they may stand about twelve foot distant one from another this frame must bee so ordered that it may bee hollow underneath which being done let the dores of those Castles bee placed the one opposite to the other at each end of the said frame and just within each doore let there bee a figure 8 rowler of wood foure inches diameter which shall have iron pevikts or points to runne upon that they may runne the more easie and let those roulers be put full of small pinnes and a girt put round about them to the end that the rowlers moving circular may draw the girt in a straight line then placing some antike Figures on the girt so that they may move about with it place your fire wheeles upon the axeltree of each rowler providing another rowler at each end to make it slide more easily so firing the said wheeles you shall see the antikes come one out of one doore and the other at the other doore meeting in the midst and when they come at the contrary end they make a returne with their heads downeward and come up againe at the same doores they went first out of which will continue running so long as the fire wheeles continue And when the wheeles stand still the reports shall goe off on each tower one against another which shall be done after this manner let one of the spoakes of both your wheeles be hollow and also part of the axeltree which let be filled with powder dust and the rocket which fires last shall be placed over that spoake which hath the vent with a piece of cotton wicke to fire it so will it runne downe thorow the axeltree which as I said must be hollow and must have paper pasted over it so that as soone as the fire comes there it breakes thorow the paper and fires a traine which is laid round about it which traine passeth to a standing conveyance which goeth up to the battlements and so giveth fire to those reports which having past each corner the lower tower shall fire as it passeth and from thence passe to an inner conueiance which shall fire so many rockets as may be well placed about it this being well and orderly performed will give great content The forme whereof is expressed in the eight Figure N B B. B B Represents the two Castles ready fitted with the frame A A The two doores opposite B The two figures moving forward C C The two fire wheeles which causeth this motion C Represents the frame for this motion D D The two fire wheeles fixed on their axeltree E E The Roler each wheele is fixed to F F The other Rolers which guide the girts G G The girts passing from one roller to the other H H The figures placed on the girts fig 9th CHAP. XXVIII Another way to performe the same motions and will not be so violent as the former PRepare your Castle with the frame fitted as the former onely upon the axeltree of each rowler let there bee a small wheele with teeth and likewise must there bee a screw upon the axeltree of each fire wheele which must be so fitted that they may draw these wheeles about which if they be well fitted will move them with great facilitie and whereas the other fire wheeles were placed on each side these must be placed behinde or underneath which you please or finde most commodious Now you must note that your fire wheele moving once about moveth but one tooth of your other wheele by reason of the screw which drawes him so that if you make tenne teeth in the said wheele your fire wheele shall make tenne revolutions for one of your rowler by this meanes it will move after a farre more easie manner then the former The manner of this is represented in the ninth Figure A A R. A A Represents the two Castles ready placed R The frame for the motion B B Two
with cotton wick made of purpose to the end it may not fire the bal til it be up a good heighth and then to break into a showre of starres The receipt of the composition for the trunck 1 l. of roch peter ¼ l. of fine powder dust ½ of sulphur vive 2 ℥ of camphir 1 ℥ of linseed oyle The forme of this trunck is represented in the twelfth figure by the letter A A represents a trunck ready finished with two bals B the ball which lieth uppermost and is filled with slow composition C the lower ball which is filled with starres D the slow mixture at the top of the trunck E the corn powder to send forth the upper ball F the second lay of composition G the powder for sending forth the lower ball o o o three places left for arming the said trunck H the bottom of the trunck which must be two inches thick I a place left to put in a post of wood for it to stand on CHAP. XXXV The manner of making a Club which being fired shall cast forth divers small works or fisgigs CAuse a peece of wood to be turned of foure inches diameter boare it one inch and a halfe from the top toward the bottom only leaving a bottom of an inch thick and likewise a place underneath to put in your club staffe the length of this trunck may be eighteen inches then draw a circular or spiral line from the top to the bottom which let bee in the manner of a screw every thred being an inch and a halfe asunder and in that line boare small holes of the bignesse of one of your fisgigs till you come within a quarter of an inch of the bottom of each hole and then pierce it with a small piercer till you come to the soule of the trunck Having done this make small wyers fit to each hole which let be fastned so that they may stand opposite to the said holes within two inches off from each hole the use of them is to keep your fisgigs more upright and steaddy which otherwise would bee apt to fall out by reason they must bee put in very slack or else they would not so easily come forth when they should then load your trunck with the slow mixture appointed in the former chapter for a trunck and put in your fisgigs priming each and likewise each hole and so firing it at the top you shall finde them come forth one after another as your trunck burneth downwards which shall scatter abroad after a confused manner The form of this you shall see in the twelfth figure by the letters E I. E represents the form of the club without the wyers on or any other work I is the said club ready finished with all his work K the wyers placed for to stay each fisgig in his place L the fisgigs placed M the place of firing N the club fast put into the bottom CHAP. XXXVI Another sort of club which being fired shall give many reports PRovide a club like unto the former but let not the holes be boated so big but only that a small quill or pipe may go in for a vent to every breaker then having boared your holes at proportionable distance cut so many hollow groofes with a googe or halfe round chisell and fit them to your breakers of paper and place so many reports round about it your reports or breakers for this work shall bee made as followeth upon a rowler of halfe an inch rowle so much paper till you make it an inch thick and better choaking it close at one end then fill it an inch and a halfe with good pistoll powder choaking it at the other end so that it be very close at each end then pierce a small hole in the middle for a pipe to enter in which must bee filled with powder dust and put into the small holes of your trunck very close then pitch them well round about and poure pitch all over that the work may not be seen and likewise that it may hold your reports close together this pitch likewise when the fire commeth to it will easily fire and make a very furious light which will give great content The form of this is represented in the twelfth figure by the letters O and V. O representing the club without the reports placed A the groofes to put in the reports with a hole in the middle of each groofe to put in the quill R a report with a quill ready to be placed in the club figure 12 q the manner of the quill which must bee put into those small holes to fire the reports V the club finished with the reports placed in it B B the manner of the reports as they are placed in the said club CHAP. XXXVII Another which I call Iack in a box THE order of making this is after this manner provide a box of plate of what largenesse you please which let be six inches deep with a socket at the bottom to put in your staffe then putting in a quantity of corn powder or powder dust in the bottom of the box you shall fill it with fisgigs or serpents leaving a place in the middle for a cane to go thorow to the bottom which cane must be filled with slow receipt in which you shall put a quantity of camphir but no oyles in regard of the narrow passage it hath to burn without any other vent then put your cane down leaving it an inch above the box and take a peece of thick pastebord cutting a hole for the cane to passe thorow and glew it close to the cane to the end the fire passe not thorow before the appointed time this pastebord must bee of sufficient breadth to cover your box quite over then put it on a staffe and light your cane which will appeare only like a candle and after a pretty distance of time you shall heare a sudden noyse and see all those fisgigs flying some one way some another This toy hath given great content to the spectators The form of this is set down in the twelfth figure by the letters B C D. B the box without any thing in it C the fisgigs placed in the box D the box finished with a cane passing thorow to the bottom CHAP. XXXVIII How to represent the Sphere moving in the ayre without any other supportation CAuse a Sphere to bee made somewhat light and on the horizon place your rockets and in the zenith or upper part let there bee a pinne passe thorow the meridian with a ring fastned to it to hang it by this must bee fastned to a large Kite so as the Sphere may hang six foot under it then fasten a match of cotton to the nose of the first rocket and light it which having done raise your Kite and by such time as it is at the highest the rockets shall take fire and shall cause it to make divers revolutions in the ayre you may place the midst
B B the reports or breakers being made of paper and filled with corne powder C C C the quils which are primed with powder dust and serve for firing the reports D the hollow of the ball being filled with the slow composition CHAP. LIII How to make a Water ball which after a certaine time of firing shall cast forth divers rockets into the ayre PRepare a ball of wood of eight inches diameter and boare a hole in the midst of an inch and a halfe and let it come within one inch of the bottom and round about that great hole you shall boare eight smaller holes of an inch so that they may bee fit for eight rockets these holes shall be an inch from the greater and shall all meet in one at the bottom wherefore you shall cut off the bottom of the ball and fit another to it which may be so hollowed that your mixture may be conveyed to all the rockets then fasten on the bottom having filled it with your mixture and put in your rockets with the mouth of each rocket downward pasting paper round about it which shall bee coated with rosin and tallow and over each hole where the rockets are placed let it be soaped over the tallow to the end that being fired the sparks may not easily take fire of the paper which otherwise would make some confusion having done this fit in a peece of wood to the greater boare of your ball leaving only a smaller vent of halfe an inch and by this meanes the fire will come out with more violence and having spent it selfe within one inch of the bottom it shall fire the eight rockets placed about which by their force shall break the paper of each and ascend into the ayre a small heighth and after lie tumbling on the water This ball is represented in the twelfth figure by the letter D. A the place of firing the ball B B the peece of wood put in to lessen the vent C the greater hollow to be filled with the slow composition as the former D D the bottom which is loose and to bee hollowed to receive part of the slow mixture E E the holes boared to put in the rockets which must bee covered with paper F F the rockets placed in with their mouthes downward G G the place of fitting the rockets CHAP. LIV. Another sort of water ball which shall cast forth rockets at two sundry times and after it is finished shall give a great report THis ball shall be made after the manner of the other but shall bee a foot in diameter and shall have two circles of rockets placed round about so that the lower circle shall be one inch from the higher and likewise shall go down into the ball an inch lower and under that row of rockets there shall be placed a breaker of iron which shall bee one inch from the lower tyer so that the ball being fired shall after a certain time cast forth a dozen of small rockets and then continue a while longer and then in regard of the larger circumference of that circle it shall cast forth twenty and after that is ended their fire comming to the chamber of iron shall cause a very great report and so conclude The form of this is layd down in the fifteenth figure by the letter H. H the vent for firing the ball I I the peece of wood fitted to the greater boare K the hollow of the greater boare filled with a slow composition L L the upper tyer of rockets M M the lower tyer of rockets N the breaker of iron o o o o the places to put in the rockets which must bee covered with paper well soaped upon tallow fig 15th CHAP. LV. Another sort of ball with iron chambers every one casting forth a small ball CAuse a ball to be made of twelve inches diameter and in the midst boare a large hole of two inches high hollowing it within and let it come within an inch of the bottom then boare small holes of an inch from the top to the bottom in a spiral line to put in your smal chambers which shall be made of iron each chamber having a broad plate at the mouth to fasten it to the ball those chambers shal be loaden with a quantity of corn powder and after that a smal ball made up in canvas and primed as I have shewed you for starres then having filled the large concave with slow composition place in your chambers whose touch holes or vents must bee just at the breech and shal come al in toward the center of the ball then coat it round with rosin and tallow and so have you this bal finished the form whereof is represented in the fifteenth figure by the letter A. The first figure marked F represents the inside of the bal. F the mouth of it B B the iron chambers as they lie with the touch hole or vent of each chamber at the breech of the same C the concave filled with slow composition D a large chamber placed at the bottom note that this ball must bee made in two peeces to place in this chamber and after glewed well and bound about with wyer The second figure marked G is the bal finished except the coating G the vent at the mouth B B the reports with a plate of iron round the mouth of each to nayle it fast This bal being thus provided must be after covered with canvas and then dipped in a mixture of three parts rosin two parts pitch and one part tallow which must bee first incorporated on the fire and so used this bal may serve as wel for service in warre as for pleasure or triumph by putting into each chamber a bullet of lead and so shot out of a Morter peece CHAP. LVI There are divers other sorts of bals as well for water as for land and are to be shot out of the Morter peece AND because the Morter peece is often used in Fire-works I will describe the manner of it with the use thereof as much as is requisite to this place and first for the manner the manner of the Morter peece consisteth only in his proportions which are divers according to the pleasure of the workman but those of most use for fire bals are one and a halfe and two diameters in the length of the chase and one diameter in the length of the chamber with halfe a diameter at the mouth of the chamber the reason of this shortnesse is that one may come the more commodiously to the firing of the ball the proportion of this peece followeth in the sixteenth Figure B is the form of a Morter peece lying on his carriage the quoyn being made to draw with a screw as I have made use of A A the diameter or heighth of the boare which is 4¼ inches or 100 parts of this scale A B the length of the chase and is two diameters or 8½ inches B B the heighth of the chamber which is
them according to the former directions CHAP. IX The manner of making the best sort of starres NOw having set downe the compositions for starres it resteth to know how these starres are made which is divers waies but I will set you downe onely two waies both which are very good so that you may take your choyce The first is this you must make little square pieces of browne paper which fill with your composition you intend Figure 4. N. G. and so double it downe rolling it till you make it somewhat round about the bignesse of a nut or bigger according to the size of your rocket you may put in a dozen on the head of a small rocket when you have made them up in this forme you must binde them round with small thred which done draw through a cotton wicke prepared for priming as hereafter shall be shewne The second sort are made after another manner which is thus you must have a rowler as big as an ordinary arrow which shall be to rowle a length of paper about it and with a little mouth glue or paste paste it round so have you a hollow trunke of paper which you shall order after this manner Fill it by little and little with your small funnell still thrusting it very hard till you have filled it to the top which done cut it into short pieces about halfe an inch in length then having in readinesse either hot glue or size mingled with red lead dip one end of your short pieces to the end that both ends of your starre fire not and also that it may not blow out which being so finished set to dry till you use them and then putting the other end into powder dust you may put them on your rocket in one or two tier alwaies provided as I said before that you put in powder dust betweene every tier to the end they may all fire thus have you the manner of making your starres the formes whereof you shall have described hereafter Priming for Rockets The priming before spoken of is made after this manner take oyle of Camphire and soake some cotton wicke in it then take it out being moyst and rowle it in fine powder dust which having done you shall hang it up till it be thorow dry so have you prepared a very good priming which must be kept close from ayre till such time you have occasion otherwise the spirit of the Camphir will decay The description of the staffe for firing of Rockets A The long staffe to rise through the ring B B B The three legd staffe C The ring or hoope of iron for the long staffe to slide thorow D A screw to screw fast the long staffe being raised E A piece of iron filed with notches to hang the Rockets on F The ring of wyer to put thorow the sticke which may be raised higher or put lower as occasion proffers G G The description of two starres with the priming K and the binding L. H The description of the trunke or case which is to be fâ—lled with your star mixture and so cut into short pieces as you see represented by the figures 1.1 fig 4th where the uper part represents the open end and is marked with M and the under part which is glued is represented by the letter N so have you the starres wholly described CHAP. X. The manner of making silver and gold raine NOw I will shew you the order for making of golden raine which is after this manner you must prouide store of Goose quils which hauing you must cut off the quill as long as you can leaue it and cut not off the other end but leaue it close as you see presented by the letters O P. Figure 4. where O represents one filled and P one empty The receit which you make your golden raine must be the same which you make your rockets of one ounce which is to 1 l. of powder 2 â„¥ of coale dust now hauing filled many of these quils as I haue shewed you they must be put on the head of your rocket with the open ends downward to the end they may take fire so soone as your rocket is spent and so shall you see appeare a shower of gold which by some is called golden raine the like way may you make siluer raine filling your quils with the mixture prescribed for your white starres and using them in the same manner you shall see them fall downe like a shower of siluer which is called siluer raine and thus much shall suffice to be knowne for this sort of worke CHAP. XI How to make Fisgigs which some call Serpents NOw I will shew you to make another sort of work which we call Fisgigs or as the French name them Serpents which are made as followeth You must provide a small mould of ¼ of an inch diameter which must bee made without a needle which when you have you must make your cases as you make for your rockets choaking them ½ an inch from the end which shall serue for occasion as it shall bee proffered when you haue made your cases fill them three inches with powder dust and then choake him and after put in a little corne powder to the end that your Fisgig hauing plaied a while to and fro hee may breake and giue a report the use of the making so deepe a mouth at your first choaking is that you may fill it with your starre mixture so that putting diuers of them on the head of a large rocket they will first appeare like so many starres and when the starres are spent taking hold of the powder dust they will run wrigling to and fro like Serpents and after a while they will giue so many reports which will giue great content There are many works which are made of these fisgigs which wee will speak of in their places CHAP. XII How to make the reports or breakers NOW I will proceed to shew the manner of making reports to place on the head of a rocket you must make a coffin of the size of your rocket of one inch but you must rowle your paper a great deale thicker to the intent your report may be the greater also in choaking the mouth must bee left very large to the end that on occasion you may fill it with starre mixture now when you have made divers coffins about three inches and better in length you must leave a small vent at the choaking the bignesse of an ordinary wyer which you must stop with a little paper while you fill the coffin almost full or within halfe an inch of the top with good corn powder turning down foure or five folds of paper choak it close at the top and binde it round with thred so you have your reports ready against such time you come to use them which must be done in this manner first bee carefull to pull out your stopple which having done fill the mouth with your starre mixture
fire wheeles which forceth the rest of the worke C C The screws fastened on the axeltree of each wheele which forceth the rowlers D D The two wheeles which are placed on the rowlers and fitted to the screw which force them P P The two girts on which the figures are placed CHAP. XXIX How to represent the forme of an army of an hundred men marching which shall present and fire at one certaine place appointed THe ground of all these motions are wheele workes wherefore to proceed you must provide a rowler of two foot long or more which must be made and placed as the forementioned to be drawne by two screwes fastened to the fire wheeles in regard of the great weight they are to draw also they must be somewhat large wheeles with rockets of the second size which is five ounces in each rocket placing about each wheele 20. or more which having provided you must likewise get you so many figures of souldiers which must bee cut by a Carver and ought to have the joynts loose of the right arm of each with a wyer or detent to come down from the arm to the thigh of each and likewise another which may move that and come to the foot then place these on severall girts so that they may stand ten in ranck and file and may be an inch between each to the end they touch not at the feet but every file may run in a severall groofe then placing small peeces in their hands which must bee ready loaded and primed set them going and within two foot of the end of their march let there bee a crooked peece of iron stuck up between each file so that they may stand iust in a straight line to the end that when the souldiers move to that place the detents or wyers are forced against those pins which draw back the arm and so puls the trickers of each Peece in that ranck so that the whole ranck will fire altogether if they bee well ordered and as these have fired and past another ranck moveth forward to the same place performing the same thus continuing till they have all performed the like which being finished and all past they shall make a second march orderly without firing This being well and carefully ordered shall not faile and will be a very rare work to behold but will prove extraordinary costly to the owner thereof The form of this you shall finde in the ninth figure by the letter R E represents the whole frame with all the parts thereof F F are the two fire wheeles being placed one at each end of the rowler G G the screwes being fastned to each fire wheele which move the two wheeles placed on the rowler H H the two wheeles being placed at each end of the rowler I I two rowlers about which the girts do passe which carry the whole body of men K K the girts on which the figures are placed each girt having upon it ten so that in the whole there will be an hundred L represents the figure of a man standing in that posture as hee ought to bee made M Is the detent which is fastened to the right arme and is to slide on a joynt being fastened to the thigh so that it may move the arme N another detent which moveth the former as it passeth by the pin O the pin which putteth by the said detent as it commeth to it q q the said pins in their right places CHAP. XXX How to present musick playing by the help of fire with anticks dancing CAuse an instrument to bee made representing the Virginals and to it fit a Barrell set with severall tunes as I shall shew you in another Treatise hereafter then let there be a wheele with teeth fastned on this barrell and a fire wheele with a screw on the axeltree as I have shewed before which screw may be so fitted that as it moves round the barrell one way so it may move another wheele being placed on the side which wheele shall move certain anticks as the musick playeth This and many more may bee performed by the motion of wheele work The form of this is expressed in the tenth figure by the letter A B the fire wheele fixed on the axletree which moveth a screw C the screw moving a wheele placed on the top of it and another on the side D the wheele fastned to a barrell set with tunes E the wheele placed on the side which hath a pinion at the end of the axeltree marked F which carrieth about the wheele G on which there are placed foure anticks this wheele moveth foure pinions marked H on which is placed foure other anticks I is the barrell set with tunes K the pallats which causeth the jacks to move L the jacks which passe up to the strings M a board or frame covering the strings on which is placed the anticks Having spoken sufficiently of the order of motions performed by wheele work I come now to shew some things that may bee done on the Line CHAP. XXXI How to make a Dragon or any other creature to run on the Line by the help of fire LET your Dragon be made either of pasteboard or else of fine rods such as your Basketmakers use which must bee made hollow with a place in the belly to put in two rockets and shall bee so ordered that there may come a small pipe from the tayle of one to the head of the other then make a place in the eyes and mouth to put into each hole fire which shall be made up in rowled paper and thrust in then on the top of the back let there bee fastned two small pulleys for the line to run in which being done your Dragon is finished to firing which must be thus first fire it at the eyes and mouth alwayes noting that this receipt must be some slow mixture such as your starres 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 hee come to the end of his motion and then on a sudden as a creature wounded with some accident shall return with fire coming forth of his belly which being well ordered will give great content The form of this you shall finde in the tenth figure by the letter B. B represents a dragon to bee forced with rockets which are placed in the belly C a place made to put in a rocket which must be put in at the tayle with the mouth of the rocket outward D is a conveyance from the tayle of that rocket to the mouth of the next which commeth out at the belly E E two small brasse pullees fastned in a frame on the back for the line to run in CHAP. XXXII Another way for making a fiery Dragon to passe on the line without the help of fire IN the former Chapter I spake of a Dragon of a small size of a foot in length or thereabout
of this sphere full of lights which will seeme very strange The manner of this is represented in the twelfth Figure by the letters K and S. K Represents the Kite which is supported by the ayre and to which the sphere is fastened S The sphere with all his circles the rockets being placed about the horizon H H The horizontall circle about which the rockets are placed CHAP. XXXIX How to represent the sphere with divers circles some moveable others fixed CAuse a spheare to be made either of wood or mettall the outward circles representing the meridian circle with the horizon the next within shall represent the Collurs with the equinoctiall likewise the tropicks and zodiacke whose poles shall be 23 degrees ½ from the poles of the world by which meanes the eclipticke shall bee excentricke to the equinoctiall which shall be expressed so that fastening rockets about the equinoctials and placing two small lights in the zodiacke the one representing the Sunne the other the Moone you shall see them move about the earth which is placed in the midst of the spheres according to the rules of Ticho Brahe and shall be according to their naturall manner of motion which is continually rising and setling in an oblique motion to the horizon and meridian which alwaies stand fixed and the rest moving on the poles of the equinoctiall although the eclipticke bee framed from its owne poales The forme of this is represented in the twelfth Figure by the letter T. M The fixed Meridian A A The Horizon E E The Equinoctiall E E The Eclipticke with the Sunne and Moone placed round P P The poles or axeltree about which all the inner circles move CHAP. XL. How to make a halfe moone of Rockets to appeare in the ayre PRovide a piece of planke of two inch thicke and turne it to a halfe round then cut so many groves from the center to the circumference as you intend to place rockets about it and on the other side let there be rings for every rod to passe thorow of which let one of each bee close to the top and another neere the end of each rod and note that the planke must be so large that the ends of all the rods must meet in the center then prime each rocket with a quill filled with powder dust and put on the top of each groofe till you have placed your semicircle full then having primed these groofes which comes from one center to the circumference paste paper over them and so let it stand till you fire it which is done after this manner set this same at the top of a poast about foure or five foot from the ground and prime it at the center with a little cotton wicke prepared for that purpose and firing it you shall see them take fire all at one instant and so will flye circular in the forme of a halfe Moone The forme whereof is represented in the thirteenth Figure by the letters A B. A Represents the forepart of the frame in which one presents the groofes which passe to each rocket D D The quils filled with powder dust entring into the groofes with one end and into the rocket with the other B Represents the backe part of the frame E E The rings below F F The rings above G G The rockets placed on the frame CHAP. XLI How to make a case of Rockets to rise at once CAuse a frame to bee made about two foot square with small groofes two inches asunder and betweene each groofe boare holes for your rocket rods to passe thorow you may make tenne groofes and in each groofe you may place ten rockets so you shall haue a hundred rockets in one of these cases which shall fire all at once there must bee a crosse groofe made in the middest and in the center of that groofe shall you fire it which shall suddenly fire all over being primed with a quicke traine of powder the charge is great and quickly spent but it makes a very glorious shew The forme of this is represented in the 13 Figure by the letters G D. fig 13th A A A A Represents the square of your case which is grooved The white stroakes signifie the groofes which are to be filled with powder dust whereon the mouth of your rockets must be placed The other spaces expresse the holes where your rods passe thorow with a hole in the midst to fire it at B Represents the case filled with rockets their rods passing thorow and is made long to the end there may be another board at the bottome for each rod to passe thorow that they may be kept more steady CHAP. XLII How to make letters or any other figure appeare in the ayre after the spending of a Rocket HAving considered of what largenesse you will have your letters or figures make them of pastboard leaving a hollow to put in small quils which shall bee filled with a cleare and strong mixture then put in your quils and glue them fast in and and so have you finished it till you come to use it There is another manner which is thus provide a mould of plate and cut out what letter you please in waxe which having done sticke it full of quils in an orderly forme and put this on the head of your rocket note this that these are onely to be used on very large rockets The forme of these are represented in the thirteenth Figure E F. The forme of the letters the white spots signifying the place for so many quils filled full of slow mixture to be placed in CHAP. XLIII How to represent a figure of the Sunne casting forth his beames in fire CAuse a boxe to be made of plate too inches long and one inch diameter which must be filled with your slow composition and let the head be made with small groofes crossing the center to the end you may lay in certaine springs of steele such as they use to small Watches These springs shall bee about sixe inches in length and must be foure so that both ends of each appearing will make eight which will make a circular forme the boxe being the center now to the end of every one of these springs must be fastened one of your small Fisgigs then bent up close to the boxe and so put into your coffine at the top of your rocket with powder dust and cotton to fire and breake the coffine which as soone as it breakes the springs will cast forth your Fisgigs and make them seeme like the sparkling beames of the sunne and the mixture in the center will seeme as the body of the same this will continue a while and then you shall see it breake with divers reports This I had from a noble Captaine of this City namely Captaine Forestar who invented the same the forme whereof is represented in the thirteenth Figure by the letters L M. L Being the boxe with the springs fastened to the top with a Fisgig at the end