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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	westminster_n	3,051	5	10.0412	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09192	The art of dravving vvith the pen, and limming in water colours more exactlie then heretofore taught and enlarged with the true manner of painting vpon glasse, the order of making your furnace, annealing, &c. Published, for the behoofe of all young gentlemen, or any els that are desirous for to become practicioners in this excellent, and most ingenious art, by H. Pecham., gent.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1606 (1606)	STC 19500; ESTC S106084	36,660	77

scarce now any maie bee found excepte some few in Londō and they perhaps dutchmen to that haue but the ordinary skill of annealing and laying their colours verily I am perswaded if our forefat hers had knowne how little we regarded either their deuotion or cost in painting glasse windowes they would haue spared their mony to some better purpose nay if we would in many places imitate them so farre as but to allow our Churches and Chappels glasse it were wel where many times you shall see whole panes whereof some haue carried the names of their deuout and religious founders others the royal coates either of our auncient kinges of this land their Allies or of the benefactors and Lords of that place monuments many times of great importance for want of repaire partly beene beaten downe by the weather partly by ouer precise parsōs vicars as one in Northamptonshire did in his chauncel the armes of King Edward the 3. and the dukes of Yorke and Clarence taking them for images and the windowes stopt vp with strawe and sedge or damd vp quite a regard I confes hath been had of these abuses but I feare me a great deal too late The best workmanship that may be seene in England at this daie in glasse is in K. Colledge Chappel in Cambridge containing as they say the whole history both of the old and new testament the next to that in Henry the seuenths Chapel at Westminster the one finished the other wholly builte by the said religious King There are many good peeces els in diuers other places as Canterbury Lincolne c vnto which being drawne by their own antiquitye and loue of arte I haue in a manner gone in pilgrimage neither as I thought loosing my labour since I can shew almost 8 hundred seuerall auncient coates which out of old and decaied windowes I haue entertained from the iniury of rude hands and fowle weather CHAP. 2. THere be six principal colors in glasse which are Or or yealow Argent or white Sables Azure Gules and Vert black blew red and greene How to makeyour Or or yealow vpon glasse Your yealow is made in this manner take an olde groate or other peece of the purest and best refmed filuer that you can get then take a good quantitie of Brimstone and melt it when ye haue done put your siluer into the Brimstone melted and take it forth againe with a pair of pliers or smal tongues and lighte it at the fier holding it in your tongues vntil it leaue burning then beate your siluer in a brazen Mortar to dust which dust take out of the mortar and laying it on your Marble stone grind it adding vnto it a smal quātity of yelow Oker with gum Arabeck water and when you haue drawne with your pencill what you will let it of it selfe throughly drie vpon the glasse Another fair Gold or yealow vpon Glasse Take a quantity of good siluer and cut it in small peeces Antemonium beaten to powder and put them togither in a crucible or melting cruse and set them on the fire well couered round about with coales for the space of an houre then take it out of the fire and cast it into the bottom of a candle stick after that beat it small into powder and so grind it Note when as you take your siluer as much as you meane to burne remember to waie againste it six times as much yealow oaker as it waieth and seauen times as much of the old earth that hath been scraped of the annealed worke as your siluer waieth which after it is well ground put altogether into a pot and stir it well and so vse it this is the best yealow Argent or white Argent or siluer is the glasse it self and needeth no other colour yet you may diaper vpon it with other glasse or Christal beaten to powder and ground Sables Take Iet and the scales of Iron and with a wet fether when the smith hath taken an heat take vp the scales that fly from the Iron which you may doe by laying the feather on them those scales that come vp with the feather you shall grind vpon your painters stone with the Iet and Gum me water so vse it as your gold aboue written Azure Gules and Ver● These three colors are to be vsed after one māner you m ay buy or speak vnto some merchant you are acquainted withall to po cure you what coloured beads you will as for example the most perfectest red beads that can be come by to make you a faire red beat thē into powder in a brazē Mortar then buy the gold smithes red Ammell which in any case let be very transparent and through-shining take of the beades two pearls and of the Ammel one part and gtind them together as you did your filuer in the like sort may you vse al the other cullors Another saire red vpon glasse Take a quantity of Dragons blood called in Latin Sanguis Draconis beate it into fine powder in a mortar and put it in a linnen cloath put thereto strōg Aquauitae and strain them to gether in a pot and vse them when you need An other excellent greene vpon glasse Take a quantitie of vertgrease and grind it very well with Turpentine when you haue done put it into a pot and as often as you vse it warme it on the fire To make a faire carnation vpon a glasse Take an ownce of Tinne-glas one quarter of gum ofIet three ownces ofRed oker fiue ownces grind them together Another black Take a quantity of iron scales and so many copper scales and waie them one against an other and half as much Iet and mix them well together Before you occupy your scales let them be stamped small and put them into a cleane fire shouel and set them vpon the fire till they be red whot and they wil be the better Another Carnation Take a quantity of let and halfe as much siluer scum or glasse tinne halfe as much of Iron scales a quarter as much of gum and as much red chalk as all these do way and grind it The manner of annealing your glasse after you haue laid on your colours Take brickes and therewith make an ouen fowre square one foot and a halfe high in this manner and raise it a foote and a halfe high when you haue done laye little barres of Iron ouerthwart it thus three or fowr or as many as will serue then raise it aboue the barres one foote and a halfe more then is it high enough when you purpose to anneale Take a plate of Iron made fitt for the aforesaid ouen or for want thereof take a blew stone such as they make hauer or oaten cakes vpon which being made fit for the aforesayd ouen lay it vpon the crosse barres of Iron that done take sleekt lime sift it through a fine siue into the ouen open the plate or stone and make a bed of lime then