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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

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-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-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

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-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-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

that largness and they will float about a long time making a strange shew in a dark Night their ends being so placed on a frame when you give fire that they may leap out of them selves one two or three at a time or as you design them by putting more or less Stouple for Port-fires scatter a very small quantity of loose Powder underneath To make the appearance of Trees and Fountains of Fire This is done by placing many little Rockets on the Head of a great one by passing their slender Rods through its large Cartoush and if they take fire whilst the Rocket is vigorously Ascending they will spring up like Branches or fiery Trees but if they go off just as the Rocket is spent and Descending they will appear like a Fountain of Fire Girondels or Fire-wheels How to make them Take a Wheel of light Wood like the circle of a Spinning-wheel on which the Band is placed tie small Rockets round it in the nature of a Band so fast that they cannot fly off and so Head to Tail that the first fired when it bursts may give fire to the next whose force will carry the Wheel which must be placed on a strong Pin in the Axeltree round so fast that although but one Rocket go off at a time it will seem all on fire and so continue whilst all are gradually Spent and this especially at the Angles of great Fire-works are very Ornamental Ground-Rockets and the best way of Making Serpents The Mould of the Ground-Rocket may be made in all particulars like that for the Sky-Rocket but less in Length and Circumference six seven or eight Inches being a warrantable Length rowl on the Cartoush or Case to a moderate thickness choak it at one end fill it the Broach being in as the Sky-rocket with this composition Put but an ounce of Charcole to a Pound of Powder and about half an Ounce of Salt-peter beat mingle and sift them finely put in about a quarter of an ounce between every Raming till it is full with in an Inch with corned Powder Lightly Raming it leaving only so much room as may choak it at that end cutting then off what hangs over and leaving it with a picked end being thus finished prime it with a little wet Powder and lay it a drying till you dispose of it for your pass-time The Serpent is a kind of a small Rocket To make them therefore well make a Case of strong white Paper about six Inches and a half the Rowler being about the thickness of a small Arrow it must have a Head and a Broach proportionable being Rowled up hard past the Edg that turns over choak it with a strong Pack-thread and fill it with a Composition of six ounces of Powder to one of Charcole both beaten finely sifted and well mingled put in a little and little at time in and every time you put any in Ram it down hard till within an Inch full then put in corned Powder press it down gently and with the end of your Rammer force down the end that stands a littte above so that it may cover the Powder and then Seal it down with Wax prime with Dust-Powder and a little Flower of Brimstone and with your Match having a good Coal on it give fire as you see occasion Fiery Globes or Comets to make them Take half a Pound of Powder two onces of Brimstone an ounce of Salt-peter bruize these Grosly and wet them Aqua-Vitae and Oyl of Petrolum that they may be moulded like a Paste that so they may be made up into Balls as big as ordinary Wash-Balls then dry them very hard and wrap them up in Cerecloaths made or Brimstone Rosin and Turpentine in which make a little whole and prime with Wild-fire Put the Ball then into a Sling and the Wild-fire being Touched throw it up as high as you can into the Air and when the body of the Ball fires it will appear to the Beholders like a fiery Globe with a Stream or Blaze like as if a Comet or Blazing Star were Ascending or Descending according to its height op Declination To try the goodness of Powder that you may know its strength Observe whether it be well dryed and corned which you have taken notice of and approved lay a few Corns scattered on a sheet of white Paper and fire them when if they leave a black and sooty mark behind them with a noisom smell and sindg the Paper then is that Powder gross and earthy and will fail your Expectation if you use it in your Fire-works But if in the sprinkling and firing there appear few or no marks or those of a clear bluish Colour then it is airy and light well made full of fire and fit for Service half a Pound of it having more strength than a Pound of the other And thus Reader have I given you an Insight into the making Fire-works c. Such as are very pleasing and now used on occasions in all Christian Countries in making which by a little practice you may soon be perfect St. George and the Dragon fighting c. Also Mermaids VVhales c. Form your Figures of Paste-board Strengthen'd with Wicker small Sticks within pasted to the Board to keep it hollow tight and bearing out and place a hollow Trunk in the Body for a large Line to pass through and likewise for a smaller to draw them too and from each other that they may the better seem in Combats which must be fastened at the Dragons Breast and let one end of the Cord be tied which must pass through the Body of St. George turning about a Pully at the other end and fastning it to his Back and tye another at his Breast which must pass through the Body of the Dragon or a Trunk at his Back and so returning about a Pully at that end it must be drawn streight and fastened to the Dragons Tail so that as you turn that Wheel they will run furiously at each other and as you please you may make them retreat and meet again Soaping the Line to make them slip the easier at the Dragons Tail in his Mouth and Eyes you must fix Serpents or small Rockets which being fired at their setting out will cause a dreadful sight in a dark Night Thus a Mermaid or a Whale may be made to float on the Water but then the Figure must be fixed on a convenient piece of Board with two fire Wheels fixed on an Axle run through the poised part of the Body by the force of which it moves in a swift Line in the Water the Wheels must have little Rockets or Serpents tyed round them as the Girondel before mentioned A Fire-Drake on a Line Having made the Figure of Paste-board to the proper Form of a Dragon with Paste-board and Wicker as has been taught before make a hollow Trunk through the Body of it for a great Line to pass through and fasten small Lines to draw it

his Course and let him smell other Horses Dung to provoke him to stale c. And Lastly being come to the starting place rub him well uncloath him then take his Back and the Word given with all Gentleness and Quietness possible start and away And God speed you well School of Recreation How to make Artificial Fire-works of all sorts for Pleasure c. OF Artificial Fire-works for Recreation there are three general sorts viz. Those that ascend or mount in the Air. Those that consume on the Earth And such as burn on the Water And these are again divided into three Particulars viz. For the Air the Sky-Rocket the flying Saucisson and Balloon For the Earth the Ground-Rocket the fiery Lances and the Saucissons descendent For the Water-Globes or Balls double Rockets and single Rockets and of these in their particular Orders to make them and such other Matters as may occur relating to Fire-works But before I enter particularly on them it will not be amiss to give the Unlearned Instructions for making his Moulds for Rockets c. This Mould must be of a substantial piece of Wood well season'd and not subject to split or warp and first the Caliber or Bore of it being an Inch in Diameter the Mould must be six Inches long and Breech an Inch and half the Broach that enters into the Choaking part three Inches and a half long and in Thickness a quarter of an Inch. The Rowler on which you wrap the Paper or Paste board being three quarters of an Inch Diameter and the Rammer somewhat less that it may easily pass and re-pass made hollow to receive the Broach for the Cartoush Coffin must be filled with the Materials the Broach being in If the Bore be two Inches Diameter the Rocket must be twelve Inches in Length If an Inch and a half in Bore then nine Inches Long and so proportionably to any other Diameter The Cartoush or Case must be either strong Paper or fine Paste-board choaked within an Inch a quarter of the Top rowled on the Rowler with a thin Paste to keep the Doublings the higher together that it may have the greater force and higher flight Having thus far considered your Mould and Cartoush or Case I proceed to the Composition and filling part c. A Sky-Rocket how to make it c. In the Composition of your filling Materials be very cautious that you exceed not the just Proportion for which I shall give Directions to be a Standard in this case viz. Having beat a Pound of Powder very fine and sifted it through a Lawn Sieve that no whole Corns remain in it do the like by two Ounces of Charcole then sift them together so that they may mix well which done fill a small Rocket with this Mixture and if it break in Mounting before it come to the supposed height or burns out too fierce then is there too much Powder and more fine sifted Charcole must be added but if there be too much Charcole in the Composition then upon tryal it will not ascend or very little Observe in charging your Rocker at every quarter of an ounce of Ingredients or thereabouts you ram it down very hard forcing your Rammer with a wooden Mallet or some weighty piece of Wood but no Iron or Stone for fear any Sparkles of Fire fly out and take your Combustible Matter so fill it by degrees If you design neither to place Stars Quills or small Rockets on its Head you may put in about an Inch and a half of dry Powder for the Bounce but if you are to place the fore-mention'd things on the Head of a great Rocket you must close down the Paper or Paste-board very hard and prick two or three holes with a Bodkin that it may give fire to them when it Expires placing a large Cartoush or Paste-board on the head of the Rocket into which you must put the Stars or small Rockets Paper-Serpents or Quill-Serpents of which I shall speak more hereafter Note further That if you would have your Rocket sparkle much you must put some grosly bruised Salt peter into the Composition but then it must not lie long before it be let off for fear it give and damp the Powder If you would have it leave a blue Stream as it ascends put fine beaten and sifted Sulphur into it but of neither of these more than a third part of Charcole and in this manner greater and lesser Rockets are made but the lesser must have more Powder and less Charcole than the greater by a fifth part in six Golden Rain and Golden Hair For Golden Rain or streams of Fire that will when at height descend in the Air like Rain Take large Goose-Quills take only the hollow Quill as long as may be fill it with beaten Powder and Charcole as for the Air Rocket only add a little Powder of Sulphur Being hard filled to a quarter of an Inch stop that with wet Powder called Wild-fire place as many as you think convenient on the Head of a great Rocket pasted on in a Rowl of Paper so that it may not fall off till the Rocket bursts there being a little dry Powder in it to force the end when the stream of fire ceases at which time they taking will appear like a shower of Fire of a golden Colour spreading themselves in the Air and then tending directly downwards This is to be considered when you stand directly or something near under them but if you are at some distance then they will appear to you like the Blazing Tail of a Comet or Golden Hair Silver Stars How to make them To make Stars that will expand in Flame and appear like natural Stars in the Firmament for a time Take half a Pound of Salt-peter the like quantity of Brimstone finely beaten together sifted and mingled with a quarter of a Pound of Gunpowder so ordered Then wrap up the Composition in Linnen Rags or fine Paper to the quantity of a Walnut bind them with small Thread and prick holes in the Rag or Paper with a Bodkin and place six or ten of them on the Head of a great Rocket as you did the Quills and when the Rocket expires they take fire and spread into a Flame hovering in the Air like Stars and descend leisurely till the matter is spent that gives them light Red fiery Colour'd Stars How to make them Take in this Case half a Pound of Powder and double the quantity of Salt-peter as much fine flower of Brimstone as Powder wet them with fair Water and Oyl of Petrolum till they will stick together like Pellets then make them up somewhat less than the former and rowl them in sifted dry Powder then let them harden by drying in the Sun or Air and place them on a great Rocket as you did the other Stars and you will perceive them when the Rocket is at the height fall like Bodies or Globes of Fire in the manner as if real Stars were