this Citie when as they have beene extreamely pained To make a Water for the eyes TAke Lapis Calaminaris and burne it in the fire nine times and quench it in white wine and beat it into powder and when you use it put it into rose-water and drop the water into the eye For Deafenesse TAke a good quantitie of Camomill and two handfuls of greene Wormewood and seethe them in a pot of running water till they be very well sodden and put a funnell over it and let the steame go up into the eare and then go to bed warme and stop your eare with a little blacke wooll and a grain of Civet do this morning and evening and with Gods assistance you shall finde ease An excellent Electuary for the Cough Cold or against Flegme TAke of Germander Hissope Horehound white Maidenhaire Agrimony Bettony Liverwort Lungwort and Harts-tongue of each one handfull put these to nine pints of water and let them boyle to three pints then let it coole and straine it To this juyce put of clarified honey halfe a pound fine powder of Liquorice fiue ounces fine powder of Enulacampana root three ounces boyle them to the thicknesse of an Electuary Take of this at any time but specially in the morning fasting as also at night when you go to bed or two houres after supper the quantitie of a Wallnut or Nutmeg A very excellent salve to heale well proved for any old sore or new wound TAke of Waxe Rosin Sheeps suet Turpentine of each a like quantitie Sallet oyle also as much mixe them all together and take the juyce of Smallach of Planten of Orpin of Buglosse of Comfery of each a like quantitie let them boyle untill the iuyce of the hearbes be consumed and in the seething put a quantitie of Rose-water and it will be a very good Salue A soveraigne Water to heale a greene wound and to stanch bloud TAke a pottle of running water and put thereto foure ounces of Allum and one ounce of Copras and let them seethe to a quart and then straine it and keepe it in a glasse and wash the wound and wet a cloth and lay to the sore and with Gods helpe it will soone be healed For the Byting of a mad Dogge TAke brine and bathe the wound then burne Claret wine and put in a little Mithridate and so let the patient drinke it Then take two live pigeons cut them through the middle and lay them hot to his hand if he be bitten in the armes If in his legges to the sole of his feet An Oyle for any Ach. TAke a pound of unwashed butter and a handfull of red mints and a handfull of camomill a handfull of rew two ounces of oyle of Exeter stamp the herbs to a juyce and boyle them with the butter straine them in a cloth and rub them out very well this so done take the oyle of Exeter and put to them and stir them well together and put them into a gally pot and where the ach is anoint the place against the fire and lay a browne paper on it and wrap a cloth about the place and keepe it warme proved to be excellent To stanch the bleeding of a cut TAke a peece of a felt hat and burne it to a coale beat it to powder and put it in the cut and it will stanch the bleeding presently Or else apply linnen rags that in the spring of the yeere have beene often washed in the sperm of frogs and afterward dried in the Sunne For an ague to bee layd to the wrists Take a handfull of soot a spoonfull of bay salt halfe a spoonfull of pepper bruse them together and temper them with two yelks of egs spread it on a cloth and lay it to the wrists Almond milke for the cough of the lungs TAke foure spoonfuls of French barly well washed and boyle it in three wine pints of faire water unto a pint and a halfe then take it from the fire and let it coole and settle then take the cleere liquor and straine therewith a quarter of a pound of sweet almonds blanched and beaten then set it on the fire and let it boyle a while till it begin to grow thick then beat two yelks of egs and put them to it stirre them well together and put to it as much fine suger as will sweeten it and a spoonfull of damask rose water and so let it boyle a while longer till it be as thick as good creame eat of it warm twice or thrice a day but at breakfast especially For a scald head TAke a pinte of running water and as much Mercury as a good walnut three or foure branches of Rosemary boyle these all together till a third part be boyled away or thereabout and every morning and evening wash the infected place with some of this water cold and a quarter of an houre after or lesse anoint the place with lamp oyle and every morning after the first dressing try to pull up some of the hayre as easily as you can have care where you set this water for it is poyson If you shave the head and apply a plaster called Emplastrum Cephalicum cum Euphorbio it is also excellent For to heale a red face that hath many pimples Proved TAke foure ounces of barrowes grease and as much oyle of bayes halfe an ounce of quicksilver killed with fasting spettle then take two spoonfuls of wilde tansie water or honisuckle water and let all be ground in a morter three houres at the least untill you see nothing of the quicksilver and so keep it close in a glasse the older the better and when you go to bed anoint the face and look that you keep it from your eyes To wash the Face if it be given to heat TAke Snailes beat them shels and bodies together steep them a night in new milke then still them with the flowers of white Lillies To make Vsquebach TAke a gallon of the smallest Aqua vitae you can make put it into a close vessell of stone put thereto a quart of Canary Sacke two pounds of Raisons of the Sunne stoned but not washed two ounces of Dates stoned and the white skinnes of them pulled out two ounces of Cinamon grossely bruised foure good Nutmegs bruised foure good Liquorish sticks sliced and bruised tye up all your Spices in a fine linnen cloth and put them into your Aqua vitae and tye up your pot very close and let this infuse a weeke stirring it three times a day then let it runne through a jelly bagge close covered keepe it in glasse bottles To make Almond Butter TAke two pound of Almonds and blanch them and let them lye all night in cold water then grinde them in a mortar very small and put in a blade of Mace or two then straine it through a strong cloth as neare as you can that the milke be not too thin and let it seethe a prettle while then put in a little Rose-water and
a little salt when you take it off the fire and stirre it still then take a bigge cloth very cleane and let two hold it then you must take the milke and cast it round about the sides of the cloth that the whay may come from it then with a saucer put it downe from the sides then knit the cloth and hang it up untill it have left dropping then take it forth and season it with fine Sugar and Rose-water To make Ielly for one that is in a Consumption or troubled with a loosenesse TAke the feet of a Calfe and when the haire is cleane scalded off slit them in the middle and cut away all the blacke veines and the fat and wash them very cleane and so put them in a bucket of faire water and let them lye foure and twentie houres and in that time the oftner you shift them in faire water it will be the better then set them on the fire in two gallons of water or somewhat lesse and let them boyle very softly continually taking off the scumme and fat which riseth and when the liquour is more then halfe boyled away put into it a pinte and a halfe of white wine and as it boyleth there will come a foule scumme upon it take it off still cleane and when the Ielly is boyled enough you may know for your fingers will sticke to the spoone then take it from the fire and with a Cullender take out all the bones and flesh and when the Ielly is almost cold beat the whites of sixe Egges and put into it and set it on the fire againe and so let it boyle till it be cleare then straine it through a cleane cloth into a Bason and so let it stand all night long the next morning put it into a skellet and put to it a pound of Sugar halfe an ounce of Cinamon broken in peeces one ounce of Nutmegs an ounce of Ginger bruised and a good quantitie of large Mace boyle all these together till it taste of the Spices as much as you desire and when it is almost cold take the whites of six egs and beat them and put into it and set it on the fire and when it riseth wilde it in halfe a pint of white wine then strain it through a jelly bag To stay the flux TAke Date stones and beat them to fine powder and take the quantity of one of them and drink it with posset drink or beere use these two or three mornings together and after as often as you finde occasion this is very good In the month of May gather of the reddest Oak leaves you can get and still them and when need requireth make pap thereof mingled with milk or fine flower suger and cinamom as oft as your stomack serveth to eat it To make green Ink. TAke greene bice and grinde it with gum water and if you will have it a sadder green put a little saffron to the grinding To make blew Ink. TAe fine flower and grinde it with a little chalk and allum and then put it in a violl For an Ague TAke a handfull of hartstong that groweth in the field and a handfull of bay salt and beat them both together in a morter and lay this to both the wrists A water good against the plangs or to be given after a surfet TAke red Sage Celendine Rosemary Hearbegrace Wormwood Mugwort Pimpernell Dragons Scabious Egrimony Rosa solis and Balme of eâ—ch a handfull or like quantity by weight wash and shake them in a cloth then shred and put them into a gallon of white wine with a quarter of an ounce of Gentian roots and as much of Angelica roots let it stand two dayes and two nights close covered and then distill it at your pleasure and stop the glasse very close in which you keep the same To avoyd urine that is stopped with the stone TAke as much black sope as a walnut temper it with eight or ten leaves of English saffron spread it upon a round leather as big as the palme of your hand and cover the navell of your belly therewithall and it shall cause you to make water For the stone and strangury TAke the filmes that is within the mawes of geese and let them bee purely dried and then make powder thereof and drink it with stale ale and it will help him with Gods grace Proved For scald heads TAke green Coperas and mingle it with creame till it bee turned yellow and let it stand three or foure dayes then take primrose roots leaves and all with May butter and beat the roots and leaves in the butter and boyle them together with a little beere and butter and let it touch no salt To cure an old Vlcer TAke a quart of the strongest Ale that is to be gotten or brewed halfe a pint of raw honey two ounces of roch allum beaten halfe a pint of Sallet oyle and the quantitie of a Tennis ball of common washing Sope one ounce of stone pitch beaten one ounce of Rosin beaten two ounces of yellow waxe boyle all these together and straine them through a thin linnen cloth and this will cure any old Vlcer A Water to cleanse and mundifie old rotten sores and ulcers TAke a wine pint of stilled water of Planten as much white wine put therein two ounces of Roch allum a dramme of Verdigrease a dramme of Mercurie sublimed boyle all these together and keepe them in a thicke glasse being stoped with waxe very close that the strength go not out this will cleanse and mundifie old sores It will also heale a Fistula if you use a siering so that the water may come to the bottome of the sore The Medicine of medicines proved for the Stone TAke a quantity of eg-shels wash them cleane those are the best whereout chickens are come dry them very dry in an oven or betweene two tile-stones then make powder thereof searce it and mingle it with sugar or powder of licoras to give it taste and let him use it as often as hee needeth morning and evening either with Rhenish wine white wine or stale ale a spoonfull of the powder at a time and use to make water in a cleane bason and so you shall see the deliverance hereof A precious water for the sight TAke Smallage Fennell Rew Verveine Egrimony Daffadill Pimpernell and Sage and still them with breast milk together with five drams of frankincense and drop of it in your eyes each night often proved For the Fluxe to stay it TAke the yolke of an Egge and beat it then mixe with it one grated Nutmegge and lay it on an hot tyle stone to bake and eate thereof fasting and before Supper and after meales and it will stay it Often proved to be excellent A good Powder for the Gout TAke fine Ginger the weight of two groats and Enula-campane-roots dryed the weight of foure groats of Liquorish the weight of eight groats of Sugar-candy three ounces beat all these into
vessell with its tunnell under the fall of a conduit of water and the bird will sing and if you hold a cup of water under his bill hee will drink and make a noise A device whereby severall voyces of birds cherping may be heard PRepare a cestern having divers partitions one above another let them all have cranes in the bottoms to carry the water from one to another also let each cestern have his severall pipe all of them coming out at the top of the cestern on whose tops let birds bee artificially made with reeds in them also in the top of the upper cestern let there bee a tunnell Place it under the fall of a conduit of water and you shall heare so many severall voyces as there are birds A device whereby the figure of a man standing on a basis shall be made to sound a trumpet PRepare a cestern having within on the lid fastned a concave hemisphere in whose bottom let there bee made one or two holes let there also be a hole in the top of the sayd cestern whereby it may bee filled with water as occasion serveth Also let there bee made to stand on the top of this cestern the image of a man holding unto his mouth a trumpet this image must likewise have a slender pipe coming out of the cestern unto the trumpet in this pipe or cane there must be a cock nigh unto the cestern Also there must come out of the concave hemisphere at the side of the cestern a little short pipe having a clack on it within the vessell Fill the cestern about two thirds full of water and then cork it up fast blow then into the vessell at the pipe on the side divers times and the ayer will force the water out of the hemisphere and make it rise up on the sides of it turne then the cock and the weight of the water will force the ayer out of the pipe and so cause the trumpet to sound Hercules shooting at a Dragon who as soone as he hath shot hisseth at him LEt there be a cestern having a partition in the midst in the partition let there bee a deep succur having a small rope fastned unto the top of it let the one end of the rope come out of the upper lid of the cestern and bee fastned unto a ball the other part thereof let it be put under a pulley fastned in the partition and let it be carried also out of the upper cestern and be fastned unto the arme of the image which must bee made to slip to and againe and to take hold of the string of a steele bow that is held in the other hand At the other end of the cestern let there bee made an artificiall image of a Dragon through whose body must come a small pipe with a reed artificially fastned in the upper part thereof Note then that when you put up the ball the image will draw his bow and when you let it fall the Dragon will hisse Experiments of producing sounds by evaporation of water by ayer PRepare a round vessell of brasse or latin having a crooked pipe or neck whereto fasten a pipe put this vessell upon a trevet over the fire and it will make a shrill whistling noyse To make two images sacrificing and a Dragon hissing PRepare a cestern having an altar of brasse or tin upon it let therebe in the cestern a hollow pipe turning up out of the cestern at each end also in the middle within the altar also on the side of the altar into the body of a dragon artificially made with a reed in the mouth of it Let there bee two boxes at the tops of the pipes on the ends of the cestern having two crooked pipes or cranes comming out of them Fill the boxes with water when you occupy it also put fire upon the altar and the dragon will hisse and the water in the two boxes being wrought upon by the heat of the fire comming thorow the pipes will drop into the fire These two boxes ought to be inclosed in the bodies of two images and the two short cranes comming out of them in her armes and hands Experiments of producing sounds by Engins PRepare a vessell after the forme of the figure marked with the letters A B C D place it upon a frame as F G H this vessell must have a hole in the bottom with a pipe fastned in it as Q to convay the water conteyned in it into a vessell or tub set under it marked with the letters R S T also a frame must bee fastned at the top of it as G H L having so many bels with little beaters or hammers to them artificially hanged as are requisit to expresse your de-desired tune Lastly provide a sollid peece of timber whose lower part must bee fitted unto the aforesayd vessell so that it may easily slip up and down and so high as that its foot resting upon the bottom of the vessell the upper part thereof may stand somewhat above all the bels Note likewise that that part of this wood aboue its bottom or foot must be cut away about three quarters of an inch Vpon this wood thus fitted must bee fastned severall pins equall unto each bell from the top unto the foot thereof so disposed that they may orderly presse down the inward ends of the hammers of each bell according as the tune goeth when you use it fill the cestern almost with water and put the fitted peece of timber into it and as the water runneth out at the bottom it it will play upon the bels note that it were very requisit to haue a cock fastned to the pipe on the bottom of the vessell that therewith you might at your pleasure stay the water The like engines might be made to play upon wyer strings disposed upon a concavous water to make the musick resound but because this description giueth light enough for the framing of diuers other I thought good here to omit them Experiments of motions by rarifying water with fire LEt there be an altar having a pipe comming out of it and entring the body of a hollow ball let there come out of the same ball a crane whose lower end make to hang ouer a bucket fastned to a rope and hanging ouer a pulley of which rope the other end must bee wound about two spindles hauing two doores fastned unto them and at the and of the same rope let there bee a waight fastned So the fire on the altar will cause the water to distill out of the ball into the bucket which when by reason of the water it is become heuier then the weight it will draw it up and so open the said gates or little doores Experiments of motions by rarifying ayre by fire LEt there be a round vessell of glasse or horn and on the top of it a vessell of brasse and in the midst a hollow pipe spreading it selfe into foure seuerall branches at the
TAke of white lead foure ounces of Indicum two ounces put them into a leaden pot with vinegar boyle them well and that which swimmes on the top is the colour A purple or violet Colour THis is a compounded colour and it is made either by mixing a quantitie of Azure and a portion of Turnsole or else by mixing a quantitie of russet and a quantitie of Azure Sanguine or Blood-colour THis is likewise a compounded colour and it is made by mixing a good quantitie of Cinaper with a little blacke Orange-tawny THis colour is compounded of a bright red and a bright yellow A Lyon-tawny THis colour is made by mixing red lead and Masticot together A Carnation or Flesh-colour FIrst you must lay on a white colour tempered with gumme-water and when it is drie you must go it over againe with Vermillion or lake or else you must temper ceruse and vermilleon together and being dry go over it againe with lake or vermillion A Peach Colour This is compounded of Ceruse and Vermillion A Skie Colour This colour is compounded of vermilleon and azure A Blood red THis colour is made of Cinaper and afterwards sadded with Vermilleon at the sides or else with a browne colour A bloudy colour grinde Cinaper Lake and Cinaper tops put them into good water and if they be too light put to them a little Turnsole A Lincoln-greene THis colour is compounded of a good greene and Saffron A Poppin-jay greene This colour is compounded of azure and masticot A good yellow TAke Saffron or Cambugium and temper it with gum-water Sad it with Vermilleon A sable or blacke TAke a Torch hold it under a lattyn Bason temper that blacke with gumme-water A velvet-blacke BVrne harts-horne on a Colliers hearth then grinde it with the gaul of a neat put it into a shell and let it dry in the shade when you would use it grinde it againe with gumme-water To write gold with Pen or Pensil TAke a shell of gold and put a little gum-water unto it and temper it together and then you may write with it as with other colours To make Azure or bise sadder TAke blew Turnsole wet it in gum-water and then wring it out and mixe it either with Bise or else overshadow the Bise with it Red Colour TAke Vermillion and temper it with gumme water His false colour is two parts vermillion and a third part ceruse Another Red. TAke russet and temper it with gumme-water clay it with ceruse and sad it with it selfe Another Red. TAke Brassill in grosse powder allum in powder steep them in gum water a night and a day then straine it and keepe it for use A greene Colour TAke Copper plates put them in a copper pot put distilled vineger to them set them in a warme place till the vinegar become blew then put it out into another leaded pot and poure more vinegar into it again let it stand so till it become blew this do so many times till you thinke you have enough then let it stand till it be thicke To make good Inke TAke two handfuls of gauls cut each gaul into three or foure peeces poure into them a pint of beere or wine then let it stand eight houres straine it from the gauls and put vitreoll therein and to the vitreoll a third part of gumme set it on the fire to warme but let it not seethe and it will be good Inke and of these gauls you may make Inke foure or five times more To seethe Brasill TAke an ounce of Brasill twelve ounces of beere wine or vinegar put it in a new pot let it stand a night and in the morning set it on the fire and let it seethe till halfe be consumed then put into it two peny worth of allum beaten together and as much beaten gum-Arabicke stirre them well together and let them seethe againe if you desire to have it somewhat darke then scrape a little chalke into it when it seetheth let it not seethe over the pot when it is cold straine it through a cloth and put it into a glasse well stopt Aurum Musicum TAke one ounce of Salarmoniack one ounce of quick-silver of counterfein halfe an ounce of brimstone bruise the brimstone and set it on the fire but let it not be over hot lest it burne then take the Salarmoniacke and the quicksilver being in powder mixe them well together then mingle with them the brimstone stirre them well and quickly with a sticke till the brimstone become hard then let it coole grinde it on a stone and put it in a glasse well stopt with waxe and set it in a pan with ashes make a fire under it and let it stand halfe a day in that manner but not over hot till a yellow smoke riseth on it and when the yellow smoke is gone it is prepared Argentum Musicum TAke an ounce of Tynne melt it and put thereto one ounce of tartar and one ounce of quicksilver stirre them well till they be cold then beat all in a morter and grinde it on a stone temper it with gumme-water and write therewith and afterward polish it To write a gold colour TAke a new hennes egge make a hole at one end and let the substance out then take the yolke without the white and foure times as much in quantitie of quicksilver grinde them well together and put them into the shell stop the hole thereof with chalke and the white of an egge then lay it under an henne that sitteth with sixe more let her sit on it three weeks then breake it up and write with it To write with gold out of a Pensil TAke honey and salt a like quantitie grinde them well and put to them a leafe of gold with a little white of an egge put it into a mussell shell and let it purifie then temper it with gumme-water and write with it pollish it Or else grinde a leafe of silver or gold very small with gumme-water and wash it in a mussell shell as aforesaid To temper Azure of Bise TAke Azure or Bise and grinde it on a stone with cleane water then put it in a broad glasse or shell and when it hath stood a while all the dregs will fleet above and the cleane colour will fall to the bottome then poure out the water with the dregs and poure the azure in cleane water againe then stirre the colour and water together and let it stand and fine and after that poure out the water and dregs againe do thus till it be well purged then grinde it againe on a stone with gumme-water and put it into a horne or shell when you paint or write stirre it and let the sticke drop into the pen for it will sinke to the bottome as lead To temper Turnsole TAke Turnsole and wet it once or twice in cleare water and let it lye till it be well steeped then wring it into a dish till the colour be good and sad with this
make five or six dice of the ordinary bignesse of dice such as you may game withall and such as would be taken by their lookes to bee ordinary dice and yet all of them to weigh not above one grain TAke a peece of Elder and pith it lay the pith to dry and then make thereof with a sharp knife five or six dice and you shall finde it true that I haue sayd To lay gold on any thing TAke red Lead ground first very fine temper it with linseed oyle write with it and lay leafe gold on it let it dry and pollish it To lay gold on glasse GRinde Chalk and red Lead of each a like quantity together temper them with linseed oyle lay it on when it is almost dry lay your leafe gold on it when it is quite dry polish it To make yron as soft as lead TAke black flints powder them very finely then put the powder in an iron pan and make it red-hot then cast it on a marble stone till it be almost cold then make it red-hot againe and let it coole and grinde it so long till it cleave to the stone and grinde as it were clay then put that in a glasse and set it under the eaves of a house where the Sunne commeth not nigh in the day then the night after take out the water that you shall finde in the glasse above the powder then take that powder and grinde it with the water and put it in a stillatory and let it still out the halfe afterward poure the water againe on the sayd powder and still it againe with a soft fire then take and seethe that water till the halfe bee wasted then take some iron blade that is new broke and put it together and hold it so a little while then take of the water which was sod to the half and with a feather lay it first to the one side of the blade and when the water is cold lay it on the other side and it will soder fast with this water and with this water you may make steele as soft as lead It is likewise a soveraigne water to help the gout being anoynted where the griefe is for it giveth ease very speedily To colour tin or copper c. of a golden colour TAke linseed oyle set it on the fire scum it cleane then put therein of amber and aloe hepaticum a like quantity then beat and stir all well together with the oyle till it wax thick then take it off and cover it close and set it in the earth three dayes when you would use it strike your metall all ouer therewith and so let it dry and it will be of a golden colour To gild iron with a water TAke running water 3 pound rochallum 3 pound and Roman vitreoll one ounce of vardigrease one penny waight saltgem three ounces orpment one ounce boyle all these together and when it begins to boyle put in lees of tartar and bay salt of each halfe an ounce make it seethe and being sod a pretty while take it from the fire and strike the iron over therewith then let it dry against the fire and then burnish it To soder on iron SEt your joynt of iron as close as you can then lay them so in a glowing fire then take of Venice glasse in fine powder and the iron being red-hot cast the powder thereon and it shall soder of it selfe If you clap it in clay it will be the surer way To gild on iron or steele TAke one ounce of argall three drammes of vermileon and two drams of bol armeniack with as much aqua vitae then work and grinde them all together on a stone with linseed oyle having so done put there to lapis calaminaris as big as a hazell nut and grinde therewith in the end three or foure drops of varnish take it off the stone and strain it through a linnen cloth into a stone pot for it must bee as thick as hony then strike over your iron therewith and let it dry and then lay your gold or silver on as you would do upon the varnish A varnish like gold for tin silver or copper TAke small pots well leaded then put therein six ounces of linseed oyle one ounce of mastick one ounce of aloes epaticum make them altogether in fine powder and then put it into your sayd pot and cover it with such another yet in the bottom of the uppermost pot make a small hole wherein put a small stick with a broad end beneath to stir the other pot withall and when the pots are set just together close them all about with good clay and couer them all over also leaving the hole open above to stir the other pot with the stick set it over the fire and stir it as often as it seetheth and when you will gild pollish your metall over first and then strike this over the metall and let it dry in the Sunne To lay Gold on Iron or other mettall TAke liquid Varnish l. 1. Turpentine oyle of Lynseed of each an ounce mixe them all together with this ground you may gild on any mettall first striking it upon the mettall and afterward lay on the gold or silver When it is dry polish it To make Ice that will melt in fire but not dissolve in Water TAke strong water made with saltpeter allum and oyle of tartar of each one pound Infuse them together then put into them a little aqua ardens and it will presently coagulate them and turne them into ice A cement as hard as stone TAke powder of Loadstone and of flints a like quantity of either and with whites of egges and gumme dragant make paste and in a few dayes it will grow as hard as a stone To make Paper waved like unto marble TAke divers oyled colours put them severally in drops upon water and stirre the water lightly and then wet the paper being of some thicknesse with it and it will be waved like a marble dry them in the Sun To make Copper or Brasse have the colour of silver TAke Sal Armoniacke allum and salt of each a like quantity and with a little filings of silver let all be mixt together then put them into the fire that they may be hot and when they shall cease to smoke then with the same powder moystned with spittle rub your Copper or Brasse How to make glew to hold things together as fast as stone TAke of the powder of tile sheard two pound unslakt lyme foure pound oyle of Lynseed a sufficient quantity to temper the whole mixture this is marvellous strong To make a thinne glew TAke gluten piscis beate the same strongly on an Anvill till it be thin after lay it to soke in water untill it be come very soft and tender then worke it like paste to make small rowles thereof which draw out very thinne and when you will worke with it put some of it into an earthen pot with a little
water over the embers and skim the same very cleane and let it seeth a little while then worke with the same keeping it still over the fire With this glew you may fasten peeces of glasse together To make Iron have the colour of Brasse FIrst polish it well rub it after with aqua sortis wherin the filings of brasse are dissolved the like may bee done with Roman vitrioll dissolved in vineger and faire water of each a like quantity To make wood or bone red for ever TAke the powder of Brazill mingle it well with milke but so that it be very red and put therein either wood or bone letting it lye in eight dayes and it will looke red for ever How with one Candle to make as great a light as otherwise of two or three of tbe same bignesse CAuse a round and double glasse to be made of a large size and in fashion like a globe but with a great round hole in the top and in the concave part of the uppermost glasse place a candle in a loose socket and at the same hole or pipe which must be made at the side thereof fill the same with spirit of wine or some other cleere distilled water that will not putrifie and this one candle will give a great and wonderfull light somewhat resembling the sunne beames A Cement for broken Glasses BEate the whitest Fish glew with a hammer till it begin to waxe cleere then cut the same into very small pieces suffering the same to dissolve on a gentle fire in a leaded pan with a few drops of aqua vitae then let some other that standeth by hold both the pieces that are to bee cemented over a chafingdish of coles till they be warme and during their heat lay on the dissolved glew with a fine pensill then binde the glasse with wyre or threed and let it rest till it be cold An admirable secret of representing the very forme of Plants by their ashes phiâ—osophically prepared spoken of by Quertitanus and Angelus salae TAke saith hee the salt both the fixed and the volatill also Take the very spirit and the phlegme of any herbe but let them all be rightly prepared dissolve them and coagulate them upon which if you put the water stilled from May dew or else the proper water of the herbe you would have appear close them all very well in a glasse for the purpose and by the heat of embers or the naturall heat of ones body at the bottome of the glasse the very forme and Idaea thereof will be represented which will suddenly vanish away the heat being withdrawne from the bottome of the glasse As I will not argue the impossibility of this experiment so I would be loth to employ mine endeavours untill I were expert therein A device to bend glasse Canes or make any small worke in Glasse LEt there be a vessell of Copper about the bignesse of a common Foot-ball as A let it have a long Pipe at the top as C. which must be made so that you may upon occasion screw on lesser or bigger vents made for the purpose Fill this one third part with water and set it over a fornace of coals as F G H I and when the water beginneth to heat there will come a strong breath out of the nose of the vessell that will force the flame of a lampe placed at a convenient distance as K if you hold your glasse in the extention of the flame it will melt suddenly so you may worke what you will thereof There are that instead of this globe make use of a Pipe as A fastned in a sticke as F of which I have made use but hold it not so convenient for those that are not accustomed thereunto An excelleut Water for any Morphue or scurvinesse in the Face TAke of quicke Sulphur 2. ounces blacke Sope the rankest and illest favoured that can bee got binde them up in a cloth and hang them in a pint of the strongest wine vineger for the space of nine dayes herewith wash the Morphue in the Face or elsewhere and let it dry in of it selfe This Water will for the present staine the face with a yelow collour which will weare away in time How to soften Iron TAke of Allum sal Armoniacke Tartar a like quantitie of either put them into good vineger and set them on the fire heat your Iron and quench it therein A good Cement for broken glasses TAke raw silke and beat it with glasse and mixe them together with the whites of Egges Another TAke of calcined flints quicke lyme and common salt of each a like quantity mingle them all together with the whites of Egges then take a linnen cloth and spread it over with this mixture and put it upon the fracture and let it dry afterwards annoint it with Linseed oyle How to cause that the same quantitie both of powder and shot discharged out of the same peece shall carry closer or more scattering TAke the quantitie of a pease of Opium and charge it amongst the shot and this will make the shot to flie closer together then otherwise it would This I had of a Sea-man who had made triall hereof as he said and unto whom I sold some for the same purpose A Baite to catch Fish with TAke Cocculus Indiae â„¥ ss Henbane-seeds and wheaten flower of each a quarter of an ounce hive honey as much as will make them into paste Where you see most store of Fish in the River cast of this paste into it in divers little bits about the bignesse of barley cornes and anon you shall see the fish swimme on the top of the water some reeling to and fro as drunken others with their bellies upwards as if they were nigh dead so that you may take them either with your hands or a small net at the end of a sticke made for the same use Note here that if you put the Fish that you thus take into a bucket of faire and fresh water or if it raine after that you have cast this your bait into the water they will revive and come to themselves to your admiration and this was told me by a Gentleman of good credit that hath often made use thereof I have heard that the stinking oyle drawne out of the roots of Polipody of the oake by a retort mixed with Turpentine and hive-honey and being anointed upon the bait will draw the fish mightily thereto and make them bite the faster and I my selfe have seene fishes as Roches and taken in the dead time of Winter with an angle bayted onely with paste made of Wheaten flowre but it hath beene in the morning and when the Sunne hath shined How to write without inke that it may not be seene unlesse the paper be wet with water TAke some Vitriol and powder it finely and temper it with faire water in any thing that is cleane when it is dissolved you may write whatsoever you will with it and it
cannot be read except you draw it through water wherein some powder of galls hath beene infused and so it will shew as blacke as if it had beene written with inke How to make white letters in a blacke Feild TAke the yelke of a new layd egge and grinde it upon a marble with faire water so as you may write with it having ground it on this wise then with a penne dipt into it draw what letters you will upon paper or parchment and when they are through drie blacke all the paper over with inke and when it is drie you may with a knife scrape all the letters of that you wrote with the yelke of the egge and they will shew faire and white How to sodder upon Silver Brasse or Iron THere are two kindes of Sodder to wit hard Sodder and soft Sodder The soft Sodder runneth sooner then the hard wherefore if a thing be to be sodered in two places which cannot at one time well be performed then the first must be sodered with hard soder and the second with soft for if the first be done with soft it will unsoder againe before the other be sodered Note that if you would not have your soder to runne over any one part of the peece to be sodered you must rub over that part with chalke that you would not have it runne upon Note likewise that your soder must be beaten thinne and then laid over the place to be sodered which must be first fitted together and bound with wyer as occasion shall require Then take Burras powder it and temper it with water like pap and lay it upon the soder and let it drie upon it by the fire Afterwards cover it with quicke coals and blow them up and you shall see your soder run immediately then presently take it out of the fire and it is done Hard Soder is thus made TAke a quarter of an ounce of silver and a three penie weight of copper melt them together and it is done Soft Soder is thus made TAke a quarter of an ounce of silver and a three penie weight of brasse melt them together and it is done How to gild Silver or Brasse with water-gold FIrst take about â„¥ ii of quicke silver put it into a little melting pot and set it over the fire and when it beginneth to smoke put into it an angel of fine gold then take it off presently for the gold will presently be dissolved in the quicke silver which if it be too thinne you may through a peece of fustian straine a part of the quicke-silver from it Note likewise that your silver or brasse before you go about to gild it must be boyled in argol and beare or water and afterwards scratcht with a wyer brush then rub the gold and quicke-silver upon it and it will cleave unto it then put your siluer or brasse upon quicke coales untill it begin to smoke then take it from the fire and scratch it with your wyer brush Do this so often till you have rubd the quicke-silver as cleane off as you can then shall you perceive the gold to appeare of a faint yellow colour which you may make to shew faire with sal armoniacke bole armoniacke and vardigrece ground together and tempered with water How to take the smoake of Tobacco through a glasse of water FIrst fill a pinte glasse with a wide mouth almost full of faire water fill also a pipe of Tobacco and put the pipe upright into the glasse of water so that the end of the pipe may almost touch the bottome of the glasse then take another crooked pipe and put it into the glasse but let the end thereof not touch the water waxe then the mouth of the glasse that no ayre may come in nor out but at the pipes then put fire unto the Tobacco and sucke with your mouth at the end of the crooked pipe and you shall see the smoake of the Tobacco penetrate the water and breake out of a bubble and so come into your mouth To colour Ivory or any other bones of an excellent greene colour TAke aqua fortis wherein dissolue as much Copper as the said water is able then let the bones that you would have coloured lye in the same all night and they will be like a Smaragdin colour Mizaldus How to make birds drunke so that you may take them with your hands TAke such meate as they loue as Wheate Barley and lay the same to steepe in the lees of Wine or else in the juyce of Hemlockes and sprinckle the same in places where Birds use to haunt A way to catch Crowes TAke the Liuer of a Beast and cut it in diuers pieces put then into each piece some of the powder of nux vomica and lay these pieces of Liuer in places where Crowes and Rauens haunt Anon after they haue eaten them you may take them with your hâ—nds for they cannot flye away How to take Crowes or Pigeons TAke white Pease and steepe them eight or nine daies in the Gall of an Oxe then cast the same where they use to haunt You may make Partridges Duckes and other birds drunke so that you may take them with your hand if you set blacke wine for them to drinke in those places whereunto they resort Another TAke Tormentill and boile it in good wine put into it Barley or other graine Sprinckle this in those places you haue appointed to take Birds in and the Birds will eate the pieces amongst the graine which will make them so drunke that they cannot flye away This should be done in the winter and when it is a deepe snow Another way to take Birds MAke a paste of barley meale onion blades and Henbane seeds set the same upon seuerall little boards or pieces of tiles or such like for the birds to eate of it How to make Brasse white for ever TAke Egge shels and burne them in a melting pot then powder them and temper them with the whites of Egges let it stand so three weekes heate your brasse red hot and put this upon it How to make Marble TAke â„¥ vj. of quicke Lime put it into a pot and poure upon it one pinte of good wine let it stand fiue or sixe dayes stirring it once or twice a day then poure off the cleare and therewith temper flint stones calcined and made into fine powder then colour it and make of it what you please and let them dry How to whiten copper TAke a thin plate of copper heat it red-hot divers times and extinguish it in common oyl of tartar and it will be white To make Saltpeter TAke quick lyme and poure warm water upon it and let it stand six dayes stirring it once or twice a day take the cleare of this and set it in the Sunne untill it bee wasted and the Saltpeter will remaine in the bottom How to make Corall TAke of red Lead ground â„¥ 1. vermilion finely ground â„¥ ss unquenched lyme and
a powder searce them fine and then mingle them together and drinke thereof morning and evening and all times of the day Approved A speciall Medicine for the Collicke TAke Horehound halfe an handfull of Sage and Hysope of either as much twelve leaves of Betony of Centaury sixe crops one Alexander-root foure penie weight of Enula-campana roots powdered Spikenard of Spaine one penie worth seethe all these in three quarts of fine wort to a pottle and draw it through a linnen cloth and take three spoonfuls at once morning and evening To take away rednesse of burning of the Eyes TAke the white of an Egge and beat it very well with a spoonfull or two of red Rose-water then put thereto the pap of a rosted apple mingle them well together and spread it upon a little Flaxe so lay it on the eye binding it on with a linnen cloth For the Rheume in the Eyes TAke the white of an Egge and so much Bolearmoniacke as will thicken it and spread it on a round plaister of sheeps leather and lay it on the temples on that side the Rheume is The Oyntment for the same TAke Lapis Tutiae and burne it in a fire-shovell of quicke coales quench it in a poringer of womans milke do so halfe a score times then grinde it in a cleane morter till it be very fine powder then mingle it with fresh Barrows grease till it looke russet anoint your eyes with a little of it when you go to bed For Deafenesse TAke Rew and rub it betweene the palmes of your hands untill it be so brused that you may make thereof a tent then dip it in sweet sallet oyle and put in each eare one so that you may pull them forth againe This doe for seven or eight dayes and change the tent every day Take a quarter of a pinte of Angelica water of Cardus Benedictus water and of white wine of either a like quantity mingle them together dividing the same into two equall parts drink it in two severall mornings then the next night after the taking of the second draught of water take the fish of an oyster and put it into a fayre linnen cloth and stop the same into the eare that is thickest of hearing and lie on that side as long as you can in the morning pick that eare as cleane as you can and after that take a draught of the best ale you can get with a toast of houshold bread toasted very dry a reasonable quantity of nutmegs use the same every morning for five or six dayes fasting after the taking hereof two houres every time you take it For the cough of the lungs TAke two handfuls of Rosemary and strip it of the stalk one of Hissop and seethe them in a pottle of running water till it come to a quart and then put a quarter of a pound of fine sugar and let it seethe a little and scum it drink it morning and evening A present remedie for all manner aches and bruises in the Bones TAke a good quantitie of Wallwort and a certaine quantity of Balme and Smallach and stamp them and take a pound of May Butter and temper them very well together then make them into round bals and let them lye for the space of eight dayes after and then stampe them againe as you did before then take it and fry it and straine it and put it into an earthen pot This will helpe the bruise be it never so blacke For burning or scalding TO take out the fire beat onyons very small and binde them to the place To heale it take halfe a pound of sheeps suet as much sheeps dung a quarter of a pound of the inner rinde of an Elder-tree and a little Housleeke fry them altogether and straine it and use it as a plaister or make a serecloth of it and apply it to the grieved part For Burstnesse of old or young TAke nine red Snailes lay them betweene two tyles of clay so that they creepe not nor slide away and bake them in the hot embers or in an oven till they may be powdered then take the powder of one of the Snailes and put it in white wine and let the patient drinke it in the morning at his rising and fast two houres after and drinke these nine Snailes in eighteene dayes that is every other day one And if the sicknesse be so old that it will not heale in eighteene dayes begin againe and drinke other nine Snailes and he shall be whole Probatum est A Salve for all sores TAke a pound of sheepes-tallow and a pound of Turpentine and a pound of Virgin-waxe a pint of Sallet oyle a quarter of a pound of Rosin take also Bugle Smallach and Plantaine halfe the quantitie of the other or so much as will make a pint just boyle all these together upon a soft fire of coales alwayes stirring it till a third part be consumed then take it from the fire and straine it through a new canvas cloth into an earthen pot For Bleeding TAke a blacke Toade in May drie it betweene two tile stones and hang it in Sarcenet about the parties necke To procure sleepe TAke Betony Roseleaves Vinegar Nutmeg and the crummes of Rye-bread put this in a cloth warme to the poll of the head For the Cough TWo handfuls of last Saverie steepe it five dayes in white wine vineger put into the vineger halfe an ounce of Pepper at the five dayes end draine out the vineger and as soone as the bread is drawne set them in a Pewter dish into the oven and stop it up and let them stand all night In the morning take them out of the Oven and powder them Take of this powder and drinke it with Sacke so much of it as will lye on a three-pence A Gargill for the â—vula TAke a pint of good strong Ale and as much Sacke and a good quantitie of long pepper and bruise it grossely and boyle it from a quart to a pinte and let the parties gargle their mouthes and throats as warme as they may suffer it If the pallat of the mouth be downe it will fetch it up For Deafnesse very excellent good TAke the hoofes of the Neats feet after they be sodden and hold them in a cloth so warme as may be to your eare divers times together one after another they will last to be warmed in the same they were sodden in some three or foure dayes without sowring FINIS
all middle sized Rockets TAke of gunpowder one pound two ounces of charcoales mingle them A Composition for Rockets of five or six ounces TAke of gunpowder two pound fiue ounces of saltpeter halfe a pound of charcoale six ounces of brimstone and yron scales of each two ounces mingle them A Composition for Rockets of ten or twelve ounces TAke of gunpowder one pound and one ounce saltpeter fowre ounces brimstone three ounces and a halfe charcoale one ounce mingle them A Composition for Rockets of one pound or two TAke of saltpeter twelue ounces gunpowder twenty ounces and charcoale three ounces quicke brimstone and scales of yron of each one ounce mingle them A Composition for Rockets of eight nine and tenne pounds TAke saltpeter eight pounds charcoale two pounds twelue ounces brimstone one pound fowre ounces Note that no practitioner how exact soeuer ought to relie upon a receipt but first to trie one rocket and if that be too weake adde more gunpowder if it be too strong let him adde more charcoale untill hee finde them flie according unto his desire Note that the charcoale is only to mitigate the violence of the powder and to make the tayle of the rocket appeare more beautifull Note also that the smaller the rockets be they need the quicker receipts and that in great rockets there needeth not any gunpowder at all The Composition for middle sized Rockets may serve for Serpents and for rayning fire or else the receipt for Rockets on the ground which followeth heereafter Compositions for Starres TAke saltpeter one pound brimstone halfe a pound gunpowder fowre ounces this must be bound up in paper or little ragges and afterwards primed Another receipt for Starres TAke of saltpeter one pound gunpowder and brimston of each halfe a pound these must be mixed together and of them make a paste with a sufficient quantity of oile of peter or else of fayre water of this paste you shall make little balles and roll them in drie gunpowder dust then drie them and keepe them for your occasions Another Take a quarter of a pinte of aqua vitae and dissolue therein one ounce and a halfe of camphire and dip therin cotten bumbast and afterwards roule it up into little balles afterwards rowle them in powder of quick brimstone and reserue them for use Another receipt for Starres whereof you may make fiends and divers apparitions according unto your fancie Take gum dragant put it into an yron pan and rost it in the embers then powder it and dissolve it afterwards in aqua vitae and it will become a jellie then straine it dissolve also camphire in other aqua vitae Mixe both these dissolutions together and sprinkle therein this following powder Take saltpeter one pound brimstone halfe a pound gunpowder three pound charcoale halfe a pound when you have mingled and stirred them well together mixe them well with the aforesayd jelly and then make it into little balles or into what fashion else you please then cool them in gunpowder dust and keepe them for use Compositions for receipts of fireworkes that operate upon the earth FOr Rockets there needeth onely gunpowder finely beaten and searced Likewise for all the other sorts searced gunpowder will serue which may be abated or alayed with charcoal dust at your pleasure Compositions for fireworkes that burne upon or in the water A Receipt for Rockets that burne upon the water TAke of saltpeter one pound brimstone halfe a pound gunpowder halfe a pound charcoales two ounces This composition will make the Rockets appeare with a great fiery tayle If you desire to have it burne cleare then take of saltpeter one pound three ounces of gunnepowder brimstone halfe a pound A Receipt of a composition that will burne and feed upon the water TAke masticke halfe a pound white Frankincense gum sandrake quickelime brimstone bitumen camphire and gunpowder of each one pound and a halfe rosin one pound saltpeter fowre pounds and a halfe mixe them all together A Receipt of a composition that will burne under water Take brimstone one pound gunpowder nine ounces refined saltpeter one pound and a halfe camphire beaten with Sulphur and Quicksilver mixe them well together with oyle of peter or linseed oyle boyled untill it will scald a feather Fill a canvas ball with this composition arme it and ballast it with lead at the bottome make the vent at the top fire it well and cast it into the water and it will fume and boyle up slowly A Receipt of a Composition that will kindle with the water Take of oyle of Tile one pound Linseed oyle three pounds oyle of the yelks of egges one pound new quick lime eight pounds brimstone two pounds camphire fowr ounces bitumen two ounces mingle all together Another Take of Roch peter one pound flowre of brimstone nine ounces coales of rotten wood six ounces camphire one ounce and a halfe oyle of egges and oyle of Tile enough to make the mixture into a paste If you make a little hole in the top of an egge and let out all the meat and fill the shell with the following powder and stop the hole with wax and cast it into a running water it will break out into a fire Take of salt-niter brimstone and quick-lyme of each a like quantity mix them How to make stouple or prepare cotten-week to prime your fire-works with Take cotten-week such as the Chandlers use for candles double it six or seuen times double and wet it throughly in saltpeter water or aqua vitae wherein some camphire hath been dissolued or for want of either in faire water cut it into diuers peeces rowle it in mealed gunpowder or powder and suphur then dry them in the Sun and reserue them in a box where they may lie straight to prime Starres Rockets or any other fire-works How to know the true time that any quantity of fired Gun-match that shall doe an exployt at a time desired TAke common gun-match rub or beat the same a little against a post to soften it then either dip the same in salt peter water and drie it againe in the Sunne or eâ—se rub it in a little powder and brimstone beaten very small and made liquid with a little aqua vitae and dried afterwards trie first how long one yard of match thus prepared will burne which suppose to be a quarter of an howr then fowre yards will be a iust howre Take therefore as much of this match as will burne so long as you will haue it to be ere your worke should fire binde the one end unto your worke lay loose powder under and about it lay the rest of the match in hollow or turning so that one part of it touch not another and then fire it A Water called Aqua Ardens TAke old red wine put it into a glased vessell and put into it of orpment one pound quicke sulphur halfe a pound quicke lime a quarter of a pound mingle them very well and afterwards
Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose it must be made eyther of dry and light wood or crooked-lane plates or of thin whalebones covered with Muscovie glasse and painted over In the body thereof there must bee a voyde cane to passe the rope through unto the bottome of this cane must bee bound one or two large Rockets according as the bignesse and weight of the Dragon shall require the body must bee filled with divers petrars that may consume it and a sparkling receipt must be so disposed upon it that being fired it may burne both at the mouth and at the tayle thereof then hang the wings on in such wise that they may shake as the Dragon runnes along the line you may dispose divers small serpents in the wings marke the figure How to make fire Drakes YOu must take a peece of linnen cloth of a yard or more in length it must bee cut after the forme of a pane of glasse fasten two light stickes crosse the same to make it stand at breadth then smeare it over with linseed oyle and liquid varnish tempered together or else wet it with oyle of peter and unto the longest corner fasten a match prepared with saltpeter water as I have taught before upon which you may fasten divers crackers or Saucissons betwixt every of which binde a knot of paper shavings which will make it flie the better within a quarter of a yard of the cloth let there be bound a peece of prepared stoupell the one end whereof let touch the cloth and the other enter into the end of a Saucisson then tie a small rope of length sufficient to rayse it unto what height you shall desire and to guide it withall then fire the match and rayse it against the winde in an open field and as the match burneth it will fire the crackers and saucissons which will give divers blowes in the ayre and when the fire is once come unto the stoupell that will fire the cloth which will shew very strangely and fearefully How to make Balloones also the morter Peece to discharge them THe diameter of the hollownesse of the morter Peece must be one foot the longer it is the further it will carry Let the diameter of the hollownesse of the sacke be the third part of a foot and halfe a foot deepe it must have a square foot and a portfire to strew into the bottome of the sacke on the side of it this portfire is to be made like a cane about three inches long and have a bottome sodered unto the inside of the screw which bottome must be pierced with a small touch-hole This morter peece may be made of yron red copper or for a neede with pastbord armed with cord and glewed ouer but the sack and foot of it must bee made of wood and the pastbord morter must bee nayled fast upon it A Balloone must be made of canuasse rowled eight or nine times upon a Former it must bee made so that it will easily go into the morter peece into this Balloone you may put Rockets Serpents Starres Fiends Petards and one or two Saucissons to breake the Balloone then choak it up with cord and prime it with a little cane rammed full of a slow composition fill the stock of the morter peece full of whole gunpowder then screw on the portfire O then put the Balloone done to the bottom of the morter with the cane that primeth it downward into the stock then with tallow or grease stop the chinks between the Balloone and the morter and it is ready to bee discharged which you may do by putting fire to the portfire and while that burneth retreat out of harmes way A the figure of the morterpeece with its portfire O B C a Balloone ready made D an empty coffin for a Balloone Of Fire-works for the earth How to make Rockets for the earth THe moulds for these Rockets for the earth are not made like those for the ayre because that it is required that these should last longer and haue a more gentle motion obserue therefore the following directions for the making of them which may serue for all occasions without any alteration for bigger or lesser Let the diameter of their hollownesse bee halfe an inch let their hollownesse be five or six inches long let the rowler for to rowle the coffins on bee the third part of an inch thick and let the rammer to charge it bee a thought lesse let the breech bee three quarters of an inch long and let the breech enter halfe an inch into the mould then fill it with the composition proper for it obseruing those rules in the ramming it as you did in ramming rockets for the ayre when you haue filled it within an inch of the top of the mould double down a quarter of the coffin beating it with three or foure strokes of the mallet then with a bodkin peirce it in two or three places and then put in the quantity of a pistoll charge of whole gunpowder then double down the halfe of the coffin giuing it a gentle blow or two with the mallet and with a strong packthred choak the rest of the coffin and what remaineth after the coffin is choaked cut it of and it is made How to make Crackers IT is well known that euery boy can make these therefore I think it will be but labour lost to bestow time to describe their making only thus much if you would make a Cracker to giue forty fifty a hundred or two hundred blowes one after another then binde so many Crackers upon a stick so that the end of the one may ioyne to the mouth of the other How to make Trunkes THese you may make of paste-board paper or wood and of what bignesse and length you please and ram them full of the composition of Rockets for the earth if you would have them to change colour then alter the composition that is put in two or three spoonfulls of the composition of Rockets for the water and ramme that in then put in two or three spoonfulls of the composition of Rockets for the ayre and ramme that in then put in two or three spoonfulls of gunpowder dust and ramme that in doe so till you have quite filled it then tie a bottome of leather upon it and pierce it and prime it with stoupell after the same manner may you make lanternes and lights How to make tumbling balls MAke a ball of canvas and fasten in it a double Rocket for the earth you may stuffe the rest of the ball with a slow composition of two parts charcoale dust and one part of gunpowder dust mingled together and put divers petrards amongst it How to make Saucissons SAucissons are of two sorts eyther to be placed upon a frame or such like and so to bee discharged with a trayne of gunpowder or else to bee discharged out of the morter-peece The standing Saucisson is thus made you must roll paper or canvas
nine or ten times upon a roller as A B and choake the one end of it fill it then with whole gunpowder and then choake the other end also then cover all the Saucisson with cord and glew it over then pierce one end of it and prime it with a quill filled with gunpowder dust place it upon a forme having a a hole for the quill to passe thorough then fire it by a traine of gunpowder layd under the frame it will give a report like a canon marke the figure F F. How to make the flying Saucisson to be delivered out of the morter peece MAke a coffin for this as you did for the former first fill it almost with whole gunpowder then put upon that gunpowder dust which you must ramme hard into the coffin so that it may bee one finger thicke then choake it close and arme and prime it as you did the former It is represented by the figure K M. How to make a fire sword YOu must make a sword of woode having a deepe channell in the backe of it wherein place first a Rocket for the ground then two or three serpents upright with their mouthes inward let the stoupell that primeth the Rocket come under the mouth of the serpents so that being kindled it may set them on fire and enter the breech of the next rocket so fill the channell quite full with rockets and serpents binde the rockets fast into the channell but the serpents must be placed so that being once fired they may fly out of the channell and it is made mark the figure G P. The description and making of three sorts of Fire-lances TO make the first Fire-lance whose figure is noted A you must make a hollow trunk of what length or bignesse you please either of wood paper or pastbord rowled on a rowler and armed with some cord and glew first put into the bottom of whole gunpowder about one or two fingers thick then ram upon it a pastebord peirced with a little hole in the middle hauing a quill fastned in it which quill must be filled with a slow composition or else with gunpowder dust this quill must stand up in the lance two or three inches then fill the coffin up to the top of the said quill with starres and strew among the starres some gunpowder dust then put pastebord ouer them having a hole for the quill fastned in the former bottom of pastebord to passe then upon this pastebord ram gunpowder dust one or two fingers thick then put a row of serpents in and in the midst of the serpents put a cane open at both ends and filled with gunpowder dust this cane must be somewhat longer than the serpents and it must passe through a pastebord which must bee put ouer then put some more gunpowder dust and ram it in upon it and upon that put another row of serpents with a cane in the midst of them filled with a slow composition and upon them put gunpowder dust or else a slow composition ramming it in till the lance bee full then put a pastebord upon it and in the midst of the pastebord put a little cane filled with a slow composition then fasten it upon a staffe of what length you will and it is made To make the second Fire-lance you must prepare a trunk like unto the former first ram in the bottom of it some of the composition of rockets for the earth about two fingers thick then put a pastebord upon it having a petard fastned in the middest this pastebord must bee pierced in three or foure places round about the petard that thereby the powder that is rammed ouer the pastebord may take fire then ram in some more composition upon the petard about two or three fingers thick then another petard then more composition so doing untill you have filled the trunk then fasten it upon a staffe and and prime it as you did the former it is represented by the figure noted B. The description and making of two sorts of Fire-clubs TO make the first you must make an ovall ball of pastebord canvasse or parchment glewed together which you must first fill with a slow composition ram it in and then bore divers holes round about it and put therein serpents fire bals or what you will fasten it upon a staffe and prime it in the top with a cane filled with a slow composition this is represented by the figure A A. To make the second you must fill divers canes open at both ends and of a foot long or more or lesse as you think fit with a slow composition and binde them upon a staffe of foure or five foot long prime them so that one being ended another may begin you may prime them with a stouple or match prepared as before make an osier basket about it with a hole in the very top to fire it by and it is done The figure F F representeth the staffe with the canes bound upon it The figure marked G representeth the staffe having a basket wrought over it How to make a Fire-target MAke a Target of osier twigs or else of light wood binde upon it divers canes filled with a very slow composition the canes must bee open at both ends and primed with stouple that one may give fire unto another in the midst of all you may set up a large cane also if you please which you may fill with the same composition as you did the others Mark the figure L M N O Of Fire-works for the water How to make Rockets for the water THe diameter of hollownesse of the mould for Rockets that swim on the water must be one inch and eight inches long let the breech enter into the body of the Rocket one inch and it must have no broach at all in it Let the diameter of the thicknesse of the rowler bee three quarters of an inch the rammer must be a thought lesser then ram it full of the composition of Rockets for the water joyne to the upper end of it a Saucisson then couer it all over with melted pitch rosin wax or tallow to the end that the water may not spoyle the coffins and to make it float along the water binde a rod about two foot long as you did unto the rockets for the ayre now if you would have the rocket to change his actions that is to swim one while above the the water and one while under the water then put into it in the filling one spoonfull of composition and ram that in then one spoonfull of whole powder and ram that in and then another of composition and after that another of whole gunpowder so do untill you have filled it quite If you would have it change colour then shift the composition divers times that is put in one spoonfull of the composition of rockets for the water then another spoonfull of the composition of rockets for the ayre or rochpeter and gunpowder mixed untill you