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A96355	A rich cabinet, with variety of inventions; unlock'd and opened, for the recreation of ingenious spirits at their vacant houres Being receits and conceits of severall natures, and fit for those who are lovers of naturall and artificiall conclusions. Whereunto is added variety of recreative fire-works, both for land, aire, and water. Also fire works of service, for sea and shore, very fitting for these warlike times of action. Collected by J.W. a lover of artificiall conclusions.	White, John, d. 1671.	1651 (1651)	Wing W1789; Thomason E1295_2; ESTC R208979	53,617	175

into your hand place a Candle on the Table before you for this trick is best to be done by Candle-light and holding downe your head as you may see in the Figure lift the Cards above the brim of your Hat close to your head that the light of the Candle may shine on the Cards then in the drop of water like a Looking-glasse you shall see every speck of each Card before you draw them which you may name or putting your finger upon the spots you may say that you feele them out then lay downe your first Card name the next as your first Card was the deuce of Clubs the next is the five of Spads and so of the rest RECEIT XXIX How to keepe or preserve any Fowle Venison or other peeces of Flesh sound and sweet for three weeks or a moneth together althe weather be never so hot MAke a strong Brine with Bay-salt and white mingled together so as the water be over-glutted with Salt and being scalding hot purpoile therein the Foule or Flesh which you intend to keepe for some reasonable time that is to say according to the greatnesse and greasinesse thereof then hang it up in a convenient coole place and it will last a sufficient time without any bad or over-saltish taste This is a good way for Sea-men and others in hot Countries who are inforced sometimes to victuall themselves in such intemperate Climates where no flesh will last sweet foure and twentie houres together by reason that they have no meanes to make the same to take Salt which without all question will enter this way and make penetration very speedily by reason of the hot and firy spirit of Salt thus prepared RECEIT XXX How to make a speedie or present drink that Travellers may brew for themselves when they cannot rellish their Beere or Ale at their Innes TAke a quart of good water put therein five or sixe spoonfulls of good Aquavita and an ounce of Sugar with a brand of Rosemary brew them a prettie while out of one pot into an other and then is you● drink prepared RECEIT XXXI How to make on the sodaine good drink for Marriners Souldiers or for poore people when Beere is seant and Mault dear IN time of extremitie these Drinks following will serve to suffice nature as hath bin often proved Put to a good quantity of wholsome faire water a small portion or few drops of the Oyle of Sulphur incorporating them well together and it is readie Another One drop or two of the Oyle of Vitriall added to a good quantitie of faire water and wel stirred together it performeth the like Some mingle Vinegar with good water and it serveth very wel to quench the thirst Others will carry a piece of Alom in their pocket if they are to travell and know not how to get drink or water and when they are a dry they put a piece of that in their mouth and it will fetch up moysture which will asswage the thirst RECEIT XXXII A profitable way to harden Leather that it shall out-last other Leather a long time THis is a good and profitable Receit for many poore labouring men and is thus performed Take and lay such Leather as is well tanned to soake in water wherein there hath bin some store of fylings of Iron a long time or else in the water that hath long lyen under a Grinding-stone into which such Iron as hath bin from time to time ground away and there setled This is good also to harden Leather for the Cuckers or Pumps of Ships or others to make them last long RECEIT XXXIII An excellent Receit to make a dainty streight Walking-staffe to have knobs where you please GEt a streight peece of Wood of your desired length of Holly Ash Service-tree Walnut-tree or Peare-tree let it be free from knots or shakes then plaine it into sixe or eight sides a good deale bigger then your Staffe shall be This being done get a short Punch of Iron and let the small end be fyled about the bignes that you intend your knobs shall be then lay your Staffe downe upon a Bench or Table and where you will make the knobs with a hammer punch holes therein and so doe on every fide Then plaine it over againe till you have made your staffe smooth that there be no dents seene thereou● when you have thus done put it into some Caldron of boyling water for a good space and when you take it out againe you shall see that it will be full of knobs for with the heat of the water it forceth the bruises which were made with the Punch to swell out of the Wood againe You may fyle your Punch like a star or other work and it will shew very prettie I once saw a Partizan or Captaines Leading-staffe which was done in this manner and being put into a Dyers Caldron when he dyed blacks and being dryed and rubbed well with Linseed-oyle it shewed like Ebonie RECEIT XXXIV How to write Love-Letters secretly or from one Friend to another that cannot be discovered TAke a sheete of white paper and double it in the middle then cut holes through both the halfe sheets let the holes be cut like the panes of Glasse-windowes or other formes what you best fancy and then with a Pin prick two little holes at each end and cut your paper in two halfes give one halfe to your Friend to whom you intende to write the other halfe keepe to your selfe Now when you doe write lay your cut paper on a halfe sheete of writing paper and stick two Pins through the two holes that it stirre not then through those holes that you did cut write your mind to your friend when you have done take off your paper with the holes againe and then write some other idle words both before and after your lines but if they were written to make some little sense it would carry the lesse suspition then seale it up and send it When your Friend hath received it he must lay his cut paper on the same putting pinnes into the pinholes and then he can reade nothing but your mind which you writ for all the rest of the Lines are covered observe the Figure it is easily apprehended Where the Letter A is placed that doth signifie the halfe sheet of cut paper with holes Where the Letter B is placed doth signifie the substance of the Letter which you write And where the Letter C is doth signifie the Letter filled up with Lines to joyne to the other words Now when your Friend writes to you he must doe the like Another Write a Letter what you please on one side of Paper with common lnke then turne your paper and write on the other side with Milk that which you would have secret and let it dry but this must be written with a cleane Pen Now when you would read it hold that side which is written with Ink to the fire and the milkie Letters

A RICH CABINET WITH Variety of Inventions Unlock'd and opened for the recreation of Ingenious Spirits at their vacant houres Being Receits and Conceits of severall Natures and fit for those who are lovers of Naturall and Artificiall Conclusions Whereunto is added variety of Recreative Fire-works both for Land Aire and Water ALSO Fire-works of Service for Sea and Shore very fitting for these Warlike times of Action Collected by J. W. a lover of Artificiall Conclusions Printed for William Gilbertson at the signe of the Bible without Newgate in Giltspur-street 1651. TO ALL LOVERS of Ingenious and Artificiall Conclusions COurteous Reader you know and I know that the Wits of this Age are acute and various therefore how to please all mens fancies is a Taske too ponderous for my undertaking I have here unlock't and opened to your view a rich Cabinet of varieties If there be any thing therein conteined that may yeeld you profit solace of the mind recreation of the spirits or content I shall think my labour well bestowed and be glad If it be otherwise I shall be sorry that I have nothing therein to please your mind intreating you to shut downe the lid againe and then I hope there is no hurt done This may be compared to a Garden composed of sundry varieties wherein you may pick and cull out those Flowers which best pleaseth you and are fittest for your pleasure or profit For the laborious Bee gathereth her cordiall Honey and the venemous Spider her corroding poyson many times from one Flower And I know that there are some envious Criticks that will snarle at me for publishing many things conteined herein But I care the lesse because I ayme at the publique and no private end And no Man I think should be borne only to himself and hide his Talent And therefore these few Receits which I have collected with divers of mine owne gentle Reader I dedicate freely to thy use Knowing that Art imitating Nature glories alwaies in the variety of things which she produceth to satisfie the minds of curious Inquisitors of Naturall and Artificiall Conclusions Therefore I doubt not but there are many things conteined in this small Volume that will give satisfaction to the Ingenious for whose sakes I have compiled it So taking leave I will ever remain An Artists Friend JOHN WHITE A Table for the ready finding of each severall Receit in this BOOK 1 REceit How to make a glorious Light with a Candle like the Sun-shine 2 Receit How to cleave a thin Groat in sunder like two Groats 3 How to hang a Payle of water upon a stick and nothing to support it 4 How to make dainty sport with a C●t 5 How to make very pretty sport with Ducks or Poultry 6 To have pretty sport at Cock-fighting with a single Cock 7 To know the houre of the day by a Ring and a Glasse 8 An other to know the houre of the day or night at any time 9 To have three Capons upon a Spit at one s●●e and one shall be Raw an other Boyled and the other Roasted 10 To make two Knives to hang upon a Glasse without falling 11 A speedy way to make a Horse fat plump and lusty 12 How to keep a Horse from tyring and to make him fome at the Bit. 13 To put ones finger or to wash in melted Lead 14 A ready way to teach Children their A B C in manner of play 15 An excellent way to teach one to read speedily and truely 16 Divers rare conceited motions performed by a Magnet or Load-stone 17 The making of a Weather-Glasse whereby to know the change of weather 18 How to catch Kites Ravens Crowes or the like alive 19 A ready way to catch Pigeons or other Fowle 20 A merry Receit shewing how to catch a Pick-pocket 21 How to make Birds or Fowle drunk that you may take them 22 A way to take Fish in a dark night with a Candle under water 23 An excellent Bayte to catch Fish with an Angle 24 To make one Watching-Candle outlast three Watching-Candles 25 How to write a name upon a paper and burne it yet afterwards it may plainely be read 26 How to see plainly into a dark Roome at a great distance 27 How to view the back part of your Head by Glasses 28 A Trick to tell or name all the Spots or Coate-cards yet never see them 29 How to preserve and keep sweet all kinde of Flesh for a month together 30 How to make a present drink for Travelers that cannot relish strange drink 31 A good drink for Soldiers Mariners or poore People 32 A profitable way to harden Leather to last a long time 33 To make a dainty Walking-Staffe to have Knobs where you please 34 A secret way to write Love Letters or other that cannot be discovered 35 How to know when the Moone is just at the full by a Glasse of water 36 How to know the Moones age at her encrease 37 How to know both the Increase and Decrease of the Moon 38 How to fetch Oyle or Grease out of Books Writings Papers or Garments 39 How to refresh old Pictures and make them look as if they were new 40 To keep Swords Halberts Edge tooles c. seven yeares from rusting 41 An excellent Cement for broken Glasses China Dishes or the like 42 How to grave Armes Posies or Names upon an Egge 43 How to make Wax either Red or Green 44 A pretty way how to cast flowers in Wax of divers colours 45 How to make a bunch of Grapes in Wax which will seeme naturall 46 How to Inlay colours in Metall that will shew like Ammell 47 How to Inlay Boxes Cabinets or the like with hard Wax 48 To harden the white of an Egge into an Artificiall Gum for divers uses 49 How to make a true South Sundyall for a wall 50 How to make an Horozontall or flat Dyall for a poast 51 How to make a Sun Dyall upon the Seeling of a Roome 52 To make a Candle Dyall to know the time of night 53 How to keepe Cherries Peares Nuts c. fresh all the yeare 54 To make Grapes and other Fruit to have no stones or kernels 55 How to make Yellow Roses grow and make things Green all the yeare 56 How to colour Fruit and to make them taste of Spices 57 How to know which way the wind blowes on the seeling at all times 58 How to keep Drink quick and fresh that beginneth to be sowre and dead 59 An excellent way for baking of Bread without a hard crust 60 A dainty glistering plastering for Seelings or for Walles Some few but choice Physicall Receits c. 61 OF the great virtues of Crocum Martis fit to be used at this present in the Army 62 Of the rare vertue of the Quintessence of Hony and Wax for many diseases 63 Of the manifold operations of the Oyle of Cinamon 64 How to distil and make Oyle of Rosemary Flowers with its virtue 65

the case for a Foot-ball but somwhat lesser and very round having thus made your case then proceed to the filling of it which must be done in this manner you must first put in three or foure good spoonfuls of your mixture following and with a stick made round at one end force it close together and so continue filling it and between every filling put in your stick and force it together round it continually in your hand till you have finished it which having done sow it up close and then arme it with smal cord which is called marling after you have thus done you must coat it with a quantity of rosin pitch and tallow dissolved and dip your ball al over in the same provided that you leave two vents to fire it which must be pierced a third part into your bal which must be stopped with two smal sticks till such time that you come to use them the forme thereof you shall see in the next Figure by the Letter D then pulling forth the sticks fil the two vents with sine powder dust and firing it cast it into the water and you shal have your desire but you must alwayes be sure that your bal be throughly fired before you cast it from you The receipt for this bal followeth Take one pound of Powder eight ounces of roch-Roch-water foure ounces of Sulphur two ounces of Camphir one ounce of oyle of Peter one ounce of Linseed Oyle halfe an ounce of oyle of Spike and two ounces of Colophonia 24. Another dainty Water-ball which will shoot forth many Reports THis ball must be made of wood as was shewed before in two pieces because you may joyne it close together at pleasure having small holes bored round about it to put in your quils which justifie the Reports which reports or breakers must be made of paper choaked at both ends and primed through the midst they must bee fastned round with pitch and so covered round about that no water may passe in you must fil this bal in two halfes that you may force it very close together and when it is filled glew it fast and arme it well with nealed wyer then put in your breakers with a quill which must enter into the bal and likewise into the breaker the forme whereof you may see in the Figure following for A. is the mouth of the bal where it is to be fired B. B. are the reports or breakers being made of paper and filled with Corn powder C. C. are the Quils which must be filled with powder dust and serveth for firing the Reports The Receipt for this bal are these Take one pound of Roch-peter foure ounces of Powder-dust three ounces of Sulphur-vive two ounces of Camphir one ounce of Linseed-oyle two ounces of Rosen and one ounce of Oyle Benedict you must powder those things which are to be pondred and mingle them altogether and by little and little sprinkle your Oyles til you have wrought it like Past and then use it the Qulls must be filled only with powder dust because it must fire suddenly 25. How to make a Dragon or the like to run on the Line spitting of fire THe body of the Dragon must be made either with Past board or with fine rods of wicker being hollow with a place in the belly to put in two Rockets and must be so ordered that there may come a small Pipe from the tayle of one to the head of the other then make a place for the eyes and mouth to put into each hole fire which must be made up in rouled paper and thrust in then on the top of the back let there be fastned two small Pullies for a Line to run in which being done your Dragon is finished for firing which must bee thus first fire it at the eyes and mouth alwayes observing that this Receipt must be some slow mixture such as your stars then fire that Rocket which is placed with his mouth toward the tayle of the Dragon which will make it seem to cast fire from thence till he come to the end of his motion and then on a sudden as a creature wounded with some accident shall return with fire comming forth of his belly This being well ordered will give good content to the beholders of the same behold the Figure 26. The manner and forme to represent Saint George fighting with a Dragon in fire on the Line WHen you have formed your Figures of Past-bord or Wicker as afore-said you must make a hollow trunk through the body of each Figure for a great Line to passe through and likewise for a smaller Line to draw them to and fro from each other which must be fastned in this manner as you may see in the Figure following At the breast of the Dragon let one end of one cord be tied which must passe through the body of the George and turning it about a Pulley at the other end fasten it to the back of the George and at the breast of the George let another cord bee tied which must passe through the body of the Dragon or a trunk on the back and so returning about a Pulley at that end must be pulled streight and fastned to the tayle of the Dragon so that as you turne that Wheel the George and Dragon will run furiously at each other and when you please you may cause them to make a retreat and to come on againe But by all means forget not to sope your line extraordinary well and likewise have a care that your work be not too heavie above the line but that they may hang in an equall ballance otherwise they will turn their heels upward which would be a great disgrace to the work and Work-man And thus much to the ingenious I suppose will suffice behold the Figure 27. How to make a Whale a Mermaid or other to play and swim upon the water YOu may make Figures of what shape your fancie best pleaseth the body must be made of light wicker rods and in the middle of the body let there be placed an axel tree having two Wheels comming into the water yet so as they may not be seen these Wheels must be made hollow to containe a quantitie of sand or water the use of it is to keep the bodie of your Figure upright and able to sinke it so farre into the water as is needful and likewise to make it to swim more steadie note that these wheels must be loose and the axel tree fast in the midst of this axel tree place three or foure great Rockets one by another with their mouths all one way yet so provided that there may be such a distance betweene each Rocket that there may come a vent from the taile of the first to the mouth of the second and from the second to the third and to the end that it may continue the longer in motion you may place divers Lights about the bodie to make it the more beautiful