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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44818	The school of recreation, or, A guide to the most ingenious exercises of hunting, riding, racing, fireworks, military discipline, the science of defence, [brace] [brace] hawking, tennis, bowling, ringing, singing, cock-fighting, fowling, angling by R.H.	Howlett, Robert.	1696 (1696)	Wing H3195; ESTC R41004	93,643	192

shooting or falling from the Sky for by reason of their wetness or density they cannot expand into Flame which occasions them by the pressure of their weight to descend with greater Impetuosity till they waste and vanish into Air c. Another sort of Stars that give great Reports in the Air as if Armies were fighting Here you must observe to place six seven or eight small Rockets on the Head of a great one filled only with dry Powder but indifferently rammed and on the ends of them holes being prick'd through place any of the sorts of Stars or a mixture as your fancy leads you and when the small Rockets go off like Thunder in the Air the Stars will take fire so that the Noise will seem to the Spectators as if it proceeded from them because they will be seen on fire before the Sound of the Reports can be heard To make Paste-board Mortars for Balloons These stately Prospects of Fire are to be carried into the Air by the force of Powder by the help of Mortars and therefore the making of the Mortars are in the first place to be considered Take a Rowler of Wood about 12 Inches Diameter and three Foot and a half in Length wet strong Paste-board and rowl upon it as close as may be glewing the Paste-board between each Rowling then being about five Inches thick bind over it strong pitch'd Rope though indifferent small Then choak the Breech of it which must be beyond the length of the Rowler with a strong Cord pitch or glue it over that the Powder may not force its vent that way and so when the Mortar is well dry'd draw out the Rowler and make it as even as can be bore a Touch-hole two Inches from the Breech that it may enter into the hollow of the Mortar and set it by for use To make Balloons the rarity of Fire-works Take strong Paper or Paste-board rowl it on a 12 Inch Rowler near as thick as 't is long then with a strong small Cord choke it at one end only leaving a Port-fire which is a place to put in a Quill of Wild-fire that will last till being shot out of the Mortar it comes to its height then next to that put on an Ounce and a half of loose Powder and place in it as many small Rockets and Stars as it will hold so choak up the other end quite You may also put into it little quills of Wild-fire then being closed up only a Port-fire remaining which made of a Quill of Wild-fire as is said or Stopple to make which in the close of this Head I shall Instruct you Charge the Mortar being set Sloaping upwards with half a Pound of corn Powder and it will by giving fire at the priming holes send the Balloon up into the Air a prodigeous height and when it comes to the dry Powder that will break the Balloon and then the Stars and Rockets in it taking fire will scatter abroad in various curious Figures delightful to the Spectators and as they are Cunningly placed they will represent Crowns Cyphers Characters Dates of the Year c. The Airy or flying Saucisson How to make it This curious Fire-work must be made in the Composition matter for filling mostly of corned Powder putting before it when you fill the Cartoush or Case as much fine sifted Powder and Charcole as composed for the Rocket will carry it to its height leave a hole for the Port-fire in the choaking as big as a Goose-Quill will enter filling it with Dust-Powder and Charcole and so close up the open end by turning in the Paper or Paste-board corner-wise either glewing or waxing it down Paste-board Guns to cast the Saucissons into the Air How to make them To make these kind of Guns Take a Rowler some what less than for the Balloon Rowel on it your Paste-board and cord it over with strong Packthread making their Touch-holes at the bottom because they must be placed upright on a Plank or Board in a Row fixed into the Plank or Board in holes cut proportionable to them and lashed fast to Staples above and beneath with strong Cords and being charged with a quarter of a Pound of Powder fire by Match or otherways given to the Touch-hole underneath the Plank when the Saucisson is lightly put in with the Neck or Port-fire downward so that it may touch the Powder and this will serve for Use a considerable time Saucissons for the Earth or Water To make them Make your Cartoushes or Cases about 9 Inches long and an Inch in the Diameter of the Calliber by Rowling Paper or thin Paste-board on a woodden Rowler choak the ends only leaving at one end a passage to thrust in a Goose-Quill filled with Dust-Powder and Charcole well mixed at a Port-fire Glue them over or use small Cord glued or pitched to strengthen the Case that it burst not unseasonably by the force of the Composition with which you must fill them when you have choaked only at the Port-fire end the Composition being about 2 Inches the same as the former the rest corned Powder having primed and fixed them on a Plank in a Row about a foot distance lay a train of Stouple and they will fire gradually flying about on the Earth or the Water according as you place them giving reports like a Volley of Muskets This Stouple is useful for Trains and Port-fire is no more than Cotton-wool well dressed in water and Gun-powder dryed in the Sun or in a clean Swept warm Oven that it may come somewhat near Tinder but more swift and fiercer in its fire when it has Taken Fire-Boxes To make them Take a great Cartoush or Case made as for the Balloon croud it full of small Rockets or Serpents with the choaked part downward prime them with Stouple or Wild-fire fix it firm on a Pole make a priming Hole in the side towards the lower end and run in a Quill of fine beaten Powder and they will fly out the upper end being left open one by one as swift as may or if you scatter loose Powder they will fly out several together with a prodigeous Noise and breaking imitating a deal of Thunder Firey Lances How to make them These are usually for running on the Water making there a very pleasant Pass-time Their cartoush or Cases are made like the small Rocket with thin Paste-board glued and rowled up on a wooden Rowler about 9 Inches long If you would have it carry a long fiery Tail on the Water the Composition must be 2 Ounces of Charcole half a Pound of Brimstone half a Pound of Powder and half a Pound of Salt-peter or proportionable for so many as you make bruised finely and Sifted but if you would have it burn bright like a Torch put only four Ounces of Powder to the fore-named quantity of Brimstone and Salt-peter without any Charcole-dust tying to each Line a Rod in the same nature as to the Sky-Rocket but not of

the Roots of his Ears or Lashing Assoon as you find he approaches the Haunt of the Partridge known by his Whining and willing but not daring to open speak and bid him Take heed If notwithstanding this he rush in and Spring the Partridge or opens and so they escape correct him severely Then cast him off to another Haunt of a Covy and if he mends his Error and you take any by drawing your Net over them swiftly reward him with the Heads Necks and Pinions As for the Water-Dog the instructions above for the Setter will serve only to fetch and bring by losing a Glove or the like keep a Strict Subjection in him and Observance to your Commands The longest Barrel is the best Fowling Piece Five and half or six foot long with an indifferent Bore under an Harquebuse and shooting with the Wind and side-ways or behind the Fowl not in their Faces is to be observed having your Dog in Command not to stir till you have shot A Stalking-Horse for shelter to avoid being seen by the shie Fowl is an old Jade trained on purpose but this being rare and troublesome have recourse to Art to take Canvas stuft and painted in the shape of a Horse grazing and so light that you may carry him on one hand not too big Others do make them in the shape of Ox Cow for Variety and Stag Trees c. The great Fowl or those who divide the Foot reside by shallow Rivers sides Brooks and Plashes of Water and in low and boggy places and sedgie Marish rotten Grounds They also delight in the dry parts of drowned Fens overgrown with long Reeds Rushes and Sedges as likewise in half Fens drowned Moors hollow Vales or Downs Heaths c. Where obscurely they may lurk under the Shelter of Hedges Hills Bushes c. The lesser or Web-footed Fowl always haunt drowned Fens as likewise the main streams of Rivers not subject to Freeze the deeper and broader the better tho' of these the Wild-Goose and Barnacle if they cannot sound the depth and reach the Ouze change their Residence for shallow places and delight in Green Winter Corn especially if the Lands ends have Water about them Small Fowl also frequent hugely little Brooks Ponds drowned Meadows Pastures Moors Plashes Meres Loughs and Lakes stored with unfrequented Islands Shrubs c. How to take all manner of Fowl or Birds For taking the first I mean the greater Fowl with Nets observe in general this Come two hours before their feeding hours Morning and Evening and Spreading your Net on the Ground smooth and flat stake the two lower ends firm and let the upper ends be extended on the long Cord of which the further end must be fastned to the Ground three Fathoms from the Net the Stake in a direct Line with the lower Verge of the Net the other ten or twelve fathom long have in your hand at the aforsaid distance and get some shelter of Art or Nature to keep you from the curious and shy Eye of the Game having your Net so ready that the least pull may do your work strew'd over with Grass as it lies to hide it A live Hern or some other Fowl lately taken according to what you seek for will be very requisite for a Stale And you will have sport from the Dawning till the Sun is about an hour high but no longer and from Sun-set till Twilight these being their feeding times For the small Water Fowl Observe the Evening is best before Sun set Stake down your Nets on each side the River half a foot within the Water the lower part so plumb'd as to sink no further the upper Slantwise shoaling against but not touching by two foot the water and the Strings which bear up this upper side fastned to small yielding sticks prickt in the Bank that as the Fowl strike may ply to the Nets to intangle them And thus lay your Nets as many as you please about twelve score one from another as the River or Brook will afford And doubt not your success To expedite it however a Gun Fired three or four times in the Fens and Plashes a good distance from your Nets will affright and Post them to your Snares and so do at the Rivers when you lay in the Fens Winter time is the most proper for taking all manner of Small Birds as flocking then promiscuosly together Larks Lennets Chaffinchee Goldfinches Yellow-Hammers c. with this Bird-lime Put to a quarter of a Pound of Birdlime an ounce of fresh Lard or Capons-grease and let it gently melt together over the Fire but not Boyl then take a quantitiy of Wheat-ears as you think your use shall require and cut the straw about a foot long besides the Ears and from the Ear lime the straw six Inches the warmer it is the less discernible it will be Then to the Field adjacent carrying a bag of Chaff and thresh'd Ears scatter them twenty Yards wide and stick the lim'd ears declining downwards here and there Then traverse the Fields disturb their Haunts and they wili repair to your Snare and pecking at the Ears finding they stick to them mount and the Lim'd straws lapping under their Wings dead their flight they cannot be disengaged but fall and be taken they must Do not go near them till they rise of their own accord and let not five or six entangled lead you to Spoil your Game and incur the loss of Five or Six dozen Lime-Twigs is another Expedient for taking of great Fowl being Rods that are long small strait and pliable the upper part apt to play to and fro being besmeared with Bird-lime warm Thus to be used Observe the Haunts of the Fowl have a Stale a living Fowl of the same kind you would take and cross pricking your Rods one into and another against the Wind sloping a foot distant one from the other pin down you Stale some distance from them tying some small string to him to pull and make him flutter to allure the Fowl down If any be caught do not run presently upon them their fluttering will encrease your Game A well taught Spaniel is not amiss to retake those that are entangled and yet flutter away Thus likewise for the Water consult the Rivers depth and let your Rods be proportionable what is Lim'd of them being above the Water and a Mallard c. as a Stale placed here and there as aforesaid You need not wait on them but three times a day visit them and see your Game if you miss any Rods therefore know their Number some Fowl entangled is got away with it into some Hole c. and here your Spaniel will be serviceable to find him For Small-birds a Lime-bush is best thus Cut down a great Bough of a Birch or Willow-tree trim it clean and Lime it handsomely within four Fingers of the bottom Place this Bush so ordered in some quick-set or dead Hedge in Spring time In Harvest or Summer in Groves

too and from you at the breast and Tail of the Drake put into the Eyes Mouth and Tail of it Rockets so fixed that they cannot fly out as you may put Wild-fire Rowled up hard and long in Paper Then fire that in the Eyes and Mouth first and draw it with Pullies from one end of the Line to the other then that in the Tail and draw it back and it will seem as retreating from danger with fire coming out of the Belly of it A Burning Castle and Dragon on the Water Make the Dragon of Paste-board and Wicker as before The bottom of the Castle of Light Wood and the work of Paste-board with Paper Turrets and Battlements of a foot height in the Portal of the Castle fasten a Line that it may come level with the Water and therefore some part of the Castle must be under Water this Line must be fastened to the other side of the Water or in the Water if it be broad and admit not the former on a Pole or Stake knocked down and pass in a hollow Trunk through the Belly of a Dragon that being in the Castle may upon fireing the Rockets placed advantageously in the Tail Eyes and Mouth come out of the Castle and move on the Line to meet which you may at the other end of the Line in the same manner prepare a Neptune in a Chariot or riding on a Sea-horse with a burning Trident or a Whale with a Rocket or Wild-fire in his Mouth which if it ly low by spouting out will make the Water fly about as if it spouted Fire and Water out of its Mouth then by a Train fire some little Paste-board Guns in the Castle which if the Composition of the Train be made of Wild-fire or Stouple will go off by degrees and coming to a Train of Brimstone Rosin and Powder make the whole frame expire in a terrible blaze A Wheel of Fire-works to run backwards and forwards on the Ground Procure a pair of Wheels being of Light Wood like that of a Spinning Wheel fasten them on an Axel-tree and place Rockets round them as bands are fastened round a Wheel and so primed at Tail and Head that when one Expires the other may take fire half of them placed with their Heads and Tails the contrary way to the first So that when the first are spent and the Wheels have run on plain Ground a great way the other firing will turn them again and bring them to the place where they first set out A Fire that will burn in the Water or Water-ball Sow up a Case of Canvas like that of a Foot-ball but lesser pitch or glue it over Then take one Pound of Powder eight ounces of Roch-alom four ounces of live Sulphur two ounces of Camphire Linseed-oyl and that of Retrolum each an Ounce and half an ounce of Oyl of Spike with two ounces of Colophonium bruis'd and well mixed together and stuff the Ball hard with it with a Stick pitch or glue it over again binding it with Marline on Pitch on that leave two Vents or Port-fires set it on fire trundle it on the Water and it will burn under it The exactest Military Discipline for the Exercise of Foot and Horse as in Vse at this day at Home and Abroad in all the Words of Command c. TO be well disciplin'd and train'd up in Military Affairs has been the study and pride of all Warlike Nations whereby they have acquired to themselves Fame and Riches by being able to defend themselves against Invaders and gain Conquests Abroad but above all other for many hundred Years past the English have excelled in this being much helped by their natural Courage But since I only at this time intended to write to the Learner to train him up in his Exercise by which means his own Industry and Experience may lead him forth to greater matters I shall not enumerate the many brave Men who from mean Conditions have rais'd themselves by Arms to the highest pitch of Honour and Preferment but shew our Youth what they are to do and observe in their first Training as to the Words of Command to order their Arms in their various Postures with Dexterity And first of Foot Exercise I shall speak of the Pike because it is the most Ancient to Train which many who are now great Commanders have taken it as an Honour The Exercise of the Pike by word of Command c. 1. Pikes take Advance your Pikes To do this as the first thing required move in a direct Line with your Pike upward with your Left-hand near your Side your Right-hand almost as high as you can reach keeping your Left by a Depression as low as you can your Fingers being strait out and so raise the Pike till the butt-Butt-end come to your Hand then place it between your Breast and Shoulder keeping the Butt-end close that it may be the more steady and upright 2. To the Front To do this put your Left-hand on your Pike even with the Top of your Shoulder keeping your Fingers strait and bring your Pike right before you with a swift Motion drawing your Right-heel into your Left-instep and so keep the Pike strait 3. Charge Here you must fall back with your Right-leg placing the Heel of your Left-foot against the middle of your Right and bring down your Pike with a quick Motion support it with your Left-Elbow and charge Breast high and upon yielding your Body forward bend your Left-knee to fix your self firmer holding the Butt end of your Pike in the Palm of your Right-hand your Left-Toe pointing in a Line with the Spear of the Pike your Feet set at a moderate distance Then bring it down somewhat beneath your Breast be cautious of clattering and when it is charged close it to your Breast 4. To the Right four times Here turn your Left-toe to the Right then make your Left-heel come up to your Right-instep with a sudden Motion Recovering your Pike strait before you and having turn'd fall back with your Right-leg and Charge as before 5. To the Right about Now by turning your Left-toe bring it to the Right about bringing up your Right-heel your Pike being recovered Charge with much swiftness 6. As you were To do this by turning to the Left about bring up your Left-toe so bringing your Pike recovered observe that your Left hand be never higher than your Mouth your Feet placed in order and when turn'd you must fall back with your Right-leg and Charge bringing your Pike strait up without any clattering 7. To the Left four times 8. To the Left about 9. As you were 10. Advance your Pike These must be done as has been shewed in the Right only making your Observation of Eight Left Motions c. And the better to do this bring your Right-heel to your Left-instep your Pike being before you fall out with your Right-foot and so bring your Pike to your Right-Thigh 11. Shoulder your