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
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
bottom the ends of two of the branches must turn up the ends also of two must turn down upon these foure branches fasten a light cord with seuerall images set upon it Rarifie the ayre thē by laying a red-hot iron upon the top of the brasse or tin vessell and it will turn the wheele about so that you would think the images to bee living creatures Another way FIrst prepare a round peece of wood hauing a brasse box in the midst such as they make to hang the mariners compasse with but a good deale bigger round about this peece of wood fasten divers shreds of thin lattin standing obliquely or ascew as the figure doth represent round about these fasten a coffin of thin pastbord cut into seuerall formes of fishes birds beasts or what you please Prepare a lantern with oyled parchment sufficient to conteine it in the midst of whose bottom must bee erected a spindle with a narrow point to hang the pastbord cut into formes upon upon each side let there be a socket for to set a candle in also let there bee made a doore in the bottom to put the candles in at and after to be shut and it is done If you set two candles in the sockets the heat of them will turne the whole pastbord of formes round Amongst all the experiments pneumaticall there is none more excellent than this of the Weather-glasse wherefore I haue laboured to describe the making thereof as plainly as it possibly might be What the Weather-glasse is A Weather-glasse is a structure of at the least two glasses sometimes of three foure or more as occasion serueth inclosing a quantity of water and a portion of ayre proportionable by whose condensation or rarifaction the included water is subject unto a continuall motion either upward or downward by which motion of the water is commonly foreshewn the state change and alteration of the weather For I speak no more than what mine experience hath made me bold to affirme you may the time of the yeere and the following obseruations understandingly considered bee able certainly to foretell the alteration or uncertainty of the weather a good many houres before it come to passe Of the severall sorts and fashions of Weather-glasses THere are diuers seuerall fashions of Weather-glasses but principally two 1 The Circular glasse 2 The Perpendicular glasse The Perpendiculars are either single double or treble The single Perpendiculars are of two sorts either fixt or moueable The fixt are of contrary qualities either such whose included water doth moue upward with cold and downward with heat or else upward with heat and downward with cold In the double and treble Perpendiculars as the water ascendeth in one it descendeth as much or more in the other In the moueable Perpendicular the glasse being artificially hanged moueth up and down with the water How to make the water I Must confesse that any water that is not subiect unto putrifaction or freezing would serue the turne but Art hath taught to make such a water as may bee both an ornament to the work and also delectable to the eye Take two ounces of vardigrease in powder and infuse it so long in a pint of white wine vineger untill it hath a very green colour then poure out the vineger gently from the vardigrease take also a pint and a halfe of purifide May-dew and put therein 6 ounces of Roman vitreoll in grosse powder let it stand till the vitreoll bee throughly dissolved then mix this with the former water and strain them through a cap paper and put it into a cleane glasse well stopped and ' its ready for use Another TAke a gallon of rayn water that hath setled infuse therein a day and a night 4 pound of quick lyme stir it about with a cleane stick oftentimes in the day in the morning poure the cleere water off from the lyme into a brasse pan and adde thereto 3 pound of sal armoniack let it stand fiue or six houres afterwards stir it about untill it be of a perfect blew colour then straine it through a browne paper rowled within a tunnell and reserue it for your use This water is not so good for use as the former How to make the Circular glasse FIrst you must prepare two glasses the fashion whereof let be like unto the figures marked with the letters A B and C D. The glasse C D is open at both the ends also in the middle there is a neck comming up of sufficient widenesse to receiue the shank end of the glasse marked with the letters A B. Then fill the glasse C D a third part with either of the waters and diuide the glasse into so many equall parts as you would haue degrees rarifie the ayre in the head of the glasse A B by holding it to the fire which being yet warme reuerse the shank of it into the neck of the glasse C D. Note that if the water do not ascend high enough you must take the glasse A B out againe and heat it hotter if it ascend too high heat it not so hot If it be in the dog-dayes and extreme heat of summer 1 and 2 are good degrees if the weather be most temperate then 3 and 4 are best if a frost 9 or 10. When you haue hit an indifferent degree lute the joynts very close and fasten a ribben unto the top of the glasse to hang it by In this glasse the water will with cold ascend the glasse A B with heat it will descend the glasse A B and ascend the hornes of the glasse C D. How to make the single perpendicular glasse whose water ascendeth with cold and descendeth with heat PRepare two glasses after the fashion of these figures underset F G I I. Alwayes chuse those upper glasses that haue the least heads else they will draw the water too fast and presse it too low also let not the shank of the glasse bee too wide it is no matter to bee curious in chusing the lower glasse Hauing prouided both these glasses make a frame for them about one inch longer than the shank of the glasse F G hauing a hole at the top to put the same thorow There ought to be a great deale of care had in making the frame so that the foot thereof may bee of a greater compasse than the top to the end that it may stand firm and not be subject to be turned down which will distemper the whole work After you have provided the frame proceed to the making of it after this manner Put both the glasses into the frame and then divide the shank of the glasse F G into so many equall parts as you would haue it haue degrees write figures upon paper and paste them on with gum tragagant dissolued in faire water then fill the bottom glasse 2 thirds with the water and rarifie the ayre in the glasse F G so often untill you haue hit such a degree as is most fitting for the temper
have filled it How to make a Rocket that shall burne a good while in the water and then mount up into the ayre FIrst you shall make a rocket for the water and binde unto the lower end a stick about two foot and a halfe long having a large hole in the end thereof then tie unto it but loosly so that it may easily slip out a rocket for the ayre and let the stouple that primeth for the rocket for the ayre enter into the breech of the water rocket then let the end of the rod of the rocket for the ayre enter into the hole of the rod of the rocket for the water besmeare then both the rockets with tallow grease or wax or any oyle colour that the water may not spoyle the coffins of the rockets then hang a stone at the bottom of the stick that hath the hole in it to make it sink down into the water then fire the water rocket and cast them into the water the fired rocket will burne in the water and being consumed will giue fire unto the other rocket which being loosly tyed will slip the bond and mount up into the ayre This is represented by the figure G G. The floating rocket mentioned before is expressed by the figure noted I K. The description and making of two sorts of fire bals for the water FOr to make the first you must make a ball of Canvas about the bignesse of a Foot-ball or bigger if you please and fasten in it a double Rocket for the water if you will also you may stuffe the rest of the ball with the composition that will burne under the water and cut holes in the sides and therein fasten other bals and petrards in them then cover the ball over with Tallow Pitch or painting except the place where the Rocket is primed and it is done It is represented by the figure noted with A and it will tumble up and downe in the water To make the second fire-ball you must first make a ball of Canvas Pasteboard or such like and cut a wide hole in the top of it and place in it a channell of Tinne pierced in divers places fill the channell with the compositions of Rockets for the water against every hole therof place a petrard cover it with a cover pitch it over and prime it then ballast it with leade or a stone that the vent may burne upwards and it is done It is represented by the figure B. How to make a Dolphin YOu must make the body of it of Pasteboard glued together fill the body with the composition of Rockets for the water pierce it in the back with divers little holes wherein put Serpents besmeare the body all ouer with the following pap Take gunpowder dust foure ounces camphire and sulphur or brimstone in powder of each one ounce make them into a soft pap with oyle of tiles then binde unto it a large Rocket for the water which Rocket must be armed as afore that the water may not hurt it then ballast it with a wyre hauing at each end a piece of lead of weight sufficient and it is done Marke the figure I might haue beene infinite in the describing of such like with Ships Towres Castles Piramides But considering that it would but increase the price of the booke and not better your understanding since all consist of the former workes which are so plainely described as that the most ignorant may easily conceiue thereof and if any whit ingenious thence contriue others of what fashion they list FINIS THE THIRD BOOKE Of Drawing Limming Colouring Painting and Graving By I. B. LONDON Printed by THOMAS HARPER for RALPH MAB 1634. THE THIRD BOOKE of Drawing Painting Limming Graving THe Art of Drawing is in it selfe most excellent and most worthy commendations in whosoever it is yea it is an Art so necessarie unto all ingenious Artists as that in no wise they can be without it and my selfe haue found it to bee true that the sight of a good draught is more unto an ingenious person then a whole Chapter of Information Wherefore I have according unto my knowledge and practise therein faithfully penned the same for the use of all such as beare affection unto the Art and are desirous to be instructed therein And for that divers persons cannot attaine unto it or perhaps are loath to bestow any time to practise it whereby they might come to a requisite perfection for such I have set downe certaine directions and those so facile and easie that persons altogether unskilfull may having a patterne worke very well But before I begin it behooveth that I prescribe what things are to be had in readinesse to worke withall first therefore provide good smooth and cleare paper divers plummets made of blacke leade oker or blacke chalke or else Charcoals made of Ash Sallow or Beech split in sunder and pointed also a wing having provided these your implements you shall thus begin to worke First let the thing whose pourtrature you intend to take stand before you so that the light be not hindred from falling upon it and with a pointed peece of charcoale draw it rustically which when you have done consider a while whether all the parts thereof are proportionable and whether it carry the semblance of the thing that you drew it from which if it do not wipe it out with your wing and begin anew but if it be faulty on one part onely wipe onely that part out and draw it againe whensoever it liketh you or that you have so drawne it that you can finde no great fault in it wipe it over gently with your wing so that you may perceive the former strokes then with your blacke chalke or blacke lead plummets draw it as perfectly and as curiously as you can and shadow it according as the light falleth upon it This way is workeman like and the most difficult of all yet by a little practice may easily be attained unto so that the persons stand well affected unto the Art Instead of white paper you may take light coloured blew paper and draw upon it with charcoale and white chalke pointed which will shew very wel but note that after you have made your draught you must wet it in faire water and let it dry of it selfe this will make the drawing to hold fast on which would otherwise easily be wiped off This may serve for such as are contented to take some paines to attaine so noble a Science But for others there are divers other helps which follow in order How to take the perfect draught of any printed or painted Picture TAke a sheete of Venice or in stead thereof of the finest white paper that you can get wet it all ouer with cleane sallet oyle then wipe the oyle off from the paper as cleane as you can so that the paper may be dry otherwise it will spoyle a printed picture by the soaking through of the oyle hauing thus prepared your
bruise the ribs and veines on the backe-side of it afterwards wet that side with Linseed-oyle and then presse it hard upon a peece of cleane white paper and so you shall have the perfect figure of the said leafe with every veine thereof so exactly exprest as being lively coloured it would seeme to bee truly naturall by this we learne that Nature being but a little adjuvated or seconded with Art can worke wonders Now for the farther information of such as are desirous of exemplarie instruction I have set downe in order following the delineation of the proportion of such things as in my iudgement seemed most necessarie for young beginners and those in such easie demonstrations as for the most part they consist of equall squares and require no more for their right understanding then diligent observation I might have filled a whole Booke of such like but having considered that what I had done was a sufficient ground for a farther procession I thought fitting to leave each person to the exercise and practise of his best Invention I thought fitting to give you a word or two wherefore I have not made the crosse pricked lines to passe through the figures The reason is 1 because the figure would have beene thereby somwhat defaced 2 because some chuse rather to draw without such rules 3 for others with a ruler and black lead plummet they may crosse the figures through and with white bread crums take out the same againe at pleasure Of Painting THe principall end and subject of this Art is to set out things both in proportion of parts and livelinesse of colour For the former the proportion of parts I have given sufficient information for the meanest capacitie in the precedent part of this tractat now therefore I will speake of the other the colouring or setting out in colours But first provide a frame or Easel called by Artists which is very necessary to worke upon especially in greater pieces of worke the forme whereof followeth Also you must provide divers little shels to put your colours in also pensils of all sorts both for priming and other a light ruler of one foot and a halfe or two foot long and colours of all sorts ground very fine upon a porphire or marble Having provided these you shall set to worke observing the subsequent directions Painting may be performed either with water colours or with oyle colours First I will speake of water colours wherein I shall observe two things First the diversitie of colours and preparations Secondly their mixture and manner of laying them on the ground First of the first the diversitie of colours and their preparation Colours are either simple or compounded meerely tinctures of vegetables or substances of minerals or both the simple colours are such as of themselves being tempered with the water or oyle doe give a colour The compounded are such whose ingredients do exceed the number of one Vegetables are rootes juces berries and such like things as grow out of the earth Minerals are such as are dig'd out of the earth as earth and stones c. All which follow in order as well their preparations as description First note that every colour to be ground ought first to be ground with the gall of a neat then let them dry of themselves in a cold place afterwards grinde them with gumme water for your use Now I am come to the second thing observable to wit the mixture and laying the colours on the grounds which is thus your colours prepared for use ought to be tempered according unto direction still observing a meane and to that end mixe them by little and little till the colour please you first you must lay on the ground colour and let it dry throughly then with a small pensill pricke on the second colour else it will be apt to run abroad nor can you worke it so well to make it seeme liuely as you may by pricking it on especially in small peeces If you are to paint ouer maps or printed pictures that haue writing in them they use to lay on the thinnest colours and alwaies before you lay any colours upon paper wet the backe side of it with faire water wherein store of Allum hath beene dissolued and let it dry of it selfe after wet it againe and let it dry doe it the third time for this will strengthen the paper that the colour shall not sinke through it and moreouer it will make the colour shew the brighter and last the better To make Gum water to temper your Colours with TAke cleane water and put into it of gum Arabicke a little and let it stand untill the gumme be dissolued Now you must haue a care that it be neither too thicke by reason of the Gumme nor yet too thin for with the one you cannot worke well and the other will not binde the colour fast A Purple colour TAke two pound of Heidleber two ounces of Allum halfe an ounce of ashes of Copper halfe a pound of water put them into a Skillet and let them boyle till a third be consumed when it is cold straine it into a cleane vessell and let it stand a while then straine it into another and then let it stand till it be thicke enough A Crane Colour You must onely grinde blacke Lead with Gum water Browne Colour TAke good browne and grinde it with Gumme water his false colour is made with two parts browne and a third part white lead sad it with the same browne Hayre Colour Take Vmber or Spanish browne grinde it temper it with Gumme water A Blew Boyle Mulberries with Allum An Emerauld Colour TAke Verdigreese and grinde it first dry and put unto it a little of the Gall of a neat also of Saffron and the juyce of Rew of each a little grinde them together and put them into a shell and let it dry there when you would use it grinde it againe with Vineger or Verjuce and a little neats gall dissolved in either of them His false colour is two parts greene and a third ceruse it must bee sadded with a good greene A Motlie greene This colour is compounded of red and greene A blacke Colour FIrst you must lay on a light blacke mingled with white lead and afterwards when it is dry sad it with good blacke for sad blacke mixe Indie Baudias with Gumme water A marble or ashe colour This is compounded of blacke and white A russet or sad Browne This colour is made by compounding a little white with a good quantity of red A browne Blew Take two parts of Indie Baudias and a third of ceruse and temper them with gumme water A Brasse Colour This is compounded of Masticot and Vmber A gold yellow for Armes TAke Orpment and Masticot grinde each by themselves but in grinding of the Masticot adde a little Saffron and worke with them Note you may alay your Orpment with chalke and sadde it with browne of Spain or O ker de Luke Azure
to smooth and pollish Copper Plates BEcause that in the printing with Copper Plates the least scratch though it be scarce visible receiveth its impression and so many times disgraceth the worke I have set downe a way to smooth plates for impression First take a piece of Brasse or Copper of what bignesse you intend of an indifferent thicknesse and see as neere as you can that it bee free from fire flawes First beat it as smooth as you can with a hammer then rub it smooth with a pumice stone that is void of gravell least it race it so cause you as much more labour to get thē out burnish it after with a burnishing iron having first dropped a drop or two of sallet oyle on it then rub it over with a cole prepared as is after taught and lastly with a peece of beaver hat dipt in sallet oyle rub it very well for an houre thus you may polish it exactly How to prepare your Coales TAke Beechen charcole such as when they are broke doe shine such as are void of clifts and such as breake off even burne them againe and as soone as they are all through on fire quench them in chamber lye after take them out and put them in faire water and reserue them for your use Having prepared all things in a readinesse you must haue a draught of that you intend to cut or engrave Take the plate then and waxe it lightly ouer and then either pounce the picture upon it or trace it or by drawing ouer the lines of the picture with ungummed inke reprint it upon the Plate then worke upon it obseruing the shadow so that being printed it may stand right for it will be backward upon your plate when you haue cut one stroke drop a little sallet oyle upon your peece of Bever and rub over the said stroke for by this meanes you shall better see the stroke and how to cut the next equall unto it and so the rest proportionally distant one from another but to worke by a Candle you must place a glasse of faire water betweene the Candle and a paper betweene that and the Plate which casteth a true light or you will never be able to worke truely and aright Of Etching ETching is an imitation of engrauing but more speedily performed Things may be expressed to the life thereby but not so sweetly as by the Graver It is thus performed the Plate you are to etch upon must first exactly be pollished afterwards ouerlaid but very lightly with a ground made for the purpose of which anon and thereupon must be pounced drawne or traced the thing that you are to etch then the said ground is to be pierced with diuers stiles of seuerall bignesse according as the shadowes of the picture doe require afterwards the edges of the Plate are to be raised with soft waxe and strong water for so they terme it It is to be had at the signe of the Legge in Foster Lane a Distiller is to be put upon it which in those places were the strokes are required to be lightly performed is to be abated or alayed with faire water which hauing dured a while upon the plate will eate into it as it were engraven then put it into cold water and wash it about and it will leaue eating further and then take off the ground and it is done Ared ground for Etching Take red lead grinde it very well and temper it with varnish A white ground TAke one ounce of Waxe and two ounces of Rosin melt them together and adde thereto a quarter of an ounce of Venice Ceruse ground fine lay it on while it is hot A blacke ground TAke Asphaltum two parts Bees waxe one part melt them together and being warme lay it on very thinly with a fine lawne ragge If it seeme somewhat red in any one part hold it over the smoake of a Linke or waxe candle and it will be amended Note that it is a principall thing in this Art to lay the ground on aright Another way how to engrave with water TAke Verdigrease Mercury sublimated vitreoll and allum a like quantity beate all to powder put them into a glasse and let it stand so halfe a day and stirre it often then lay on the plate waxe mingled with Linseed oyle or red lead with Linseed oyle and write in it that you meane to grave then put the water on it and let it so remaine halfe a day if you will have it very deepe let it lye longer If you will engrave Images c. lay the waxe on the Iron or Steele thin and draw what you will theron that it may touch the mettall then put the water into the strokes and it will be engraven How to engrave on a flint stone TAke a Flint and write on it what you will with the fat or tallow of an Oxe afterward lay the flint in vineger foure dayes FINIS Place this betweene folio 14. and 15. THE BOOKE OF EXTRAVAGANTS Wherein amongst others is principally contrived divers excellent and approved Medicines for severall maladies By I. B. LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Ralph Mab 1634. To the Reader COurteous Reader forasmuch as there were divers experiments that I could not conveniently or rather my occasions would not permit me to dispose in such order as I would have done I thought it would not bee amisse to call them by the names of Extravagants and so to set them downe as I found them eyther inserted amongst other my notes as I put them in practise or as they came into remembrance How to make a light burne under the water being a very pretty conceypt to take fish LEt there be a glasse as A having a hole at the bottome to put a candle in with a screwed socket The socket must have a loope at the bottome whereunto you must hang a weight of such heavinesse that it may draw the body of the glasse under water The necke of this glasse must bee open and stand above the water also about the necke must bee fastened a good broad peece of wood round about which but on that side of it that is next unto the water must be placed divers peeces of looking glasses so the light of the candle in the glasse body will bee multiplied according unto the number of them All the fishes neere unto it will resort about it as amazed at so glorious a sight and so you may take them with a cast net or other How to make an image hang in the middle of a glasse MAke the lower part of the image of hard wax and the upper part of wood and overlay it with oyle colours then put it into a globe glasse filled with fayre water and which way soever you turne the glasse the image will still hang in the middle and stand as it were upright which to my knowledge hath been a thing causing no small admiration among divers that have not understood the cause of it How to
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
powder of calcined flints of each â„¥ vj. these powders must bee tempered with a Lixivium that is made with quick lyme and wine adde unto the whole a little salt then make thereof what you list then boyle them in linseed oyle How to make Pearles of Chalk TAke some Chalk and put it into the fire there let it lie untill it break temper it then with the whites of egs Then make of it divers fashions of Pearles both great and small wet them being dried and cover them with leafe gold and they are done An approved and excellent plaster for ach in the raines of the back or in any other part whatsoever TAke one pound of black Sope and foure ounces of frankincense and a pinte of white wine vineger boyle all together upon a gentle fire untill it be thick spread it then upon a lether and apply it unto the grieved place If the ach bee very great and fervent then adde unto it a little aqua vitae and it will be much better An excellent oyntment for the Shingles Morphew Tetters and Ringwormes TAke a quarter of a pound of sope and mingle with it two drams of the powder of black Ellebor litharge of silver in fine powder two ounces vardigrease halfe an ounce and a quarter of an ounce of glasse in powder and as much quicksilver make them all into an oyntment by stirring them well together wherewith anyont the grieved parts This is approved and true An excellent Balme or water for grievous sore eyes which commeth either of outward accident or of any inward cause TAke two spoonfuls of the juyce of Fennell and one spoonfull and a halfe of the juyce of Celandine and twice as much hony as them both then boyle them a little upon a chafingdish of coales and scum away the dregs which will ascend but first let it coole somwhat and then let it run through a fayre cleane cloth then put it into a violl of glasse and stop it close Put a little quantity of this into the eye This medicine is approved and more precious than gold A speedy way to asswage the paine of any scald or burne though never so great and to take the fire out of it TAke old lawn rags dip them into Runnet for want of it dip them into verges and apply them cold upon the grieved place shifting them for halfe an houre together as oft as they dry this I have known to give ease in an instant and quickly to take out the fire An approved oyle for to heale any burne or scald TAke of housleek one handfull and of brooklime as much boyle them in a quart of creame untill it turne unto an oyle boyle it very gently with this oyle a little warmed anoint the grieved place twice a day and it will soone make it well An oyntment very excellent and often proued for the same TAke a good quantity of mosse scraped from off a stone wall fry it in a fryingpan with a call of mutton suet a good while then straine it and it is done Dresse the grieved part therewith once or twice a day as you shall see fitting Another oyntment for a burne TAke one part of sallet-oyle and two parts of the whites of egs beat them together exceeding well untill they come to be a white oyntment wherein dip the feather of a black hen and anoynt the grieved place divers times every day untill such time as the scales fall off using in the meane while neither clothes nor any outward binding This sayth Minshet the authour though it seeme to be a thing of no estimation yet was there never found any more effectuall for a burn than it is An excellent oyntment for a green wound TAke foure handfuls of Clownes Allheale bruse it and put it into a pan and put to it foure ounces of barrowes grease sallet-oyle halfe a pound Bees wax a quarter of a pound boyle them all untill the iuyce be wasted then straine it and set it over the fire againe and put unto it two ounces of Turpentine then boyle it a little while more and it is done Put hereof a little in a saucer and set it on the fire dip a tent in it and lay it on the wound but first lay another plaister round about the wound made of diapalma mollified a little with oyle of Roses This cureth very speedily all greene wounds as saith M. Gerard. A Balsam of wonderfull efficacy TAke Burgundie pitch brimstone and white frankincense of each one ounce make them into an oyntment with the whites of egges first draw the lips of the wound or cut as close as you can then lay on some of this spread upon a cloth and swathe it ouer afterwards An excellent healing Water which will drie up any old sore or heale any greene wound TAke a quarter of a pound of Bolearmoniacke powder it by it selfe then take an ounce of Camphire powder it also by it selfe also take foure ounces of white Coppras in powder mixe the Coppras and Camphire together and put them into a melting pot and set them on the fire untill they turne unto water afterwards stirre it untill it come to be as hard as a stone then powder it againe and mixe it with the Bole-armoniacke keepe this powder close in a bladder when you would use it take one pinte and a halfe of faire water set it on the fire and when it is even ready to boyle put into it three spoonfuls of the powder then take it off from the fire and put it into a glasse and let it stand untill it be cleare at the top then take of the clearest and wash the sore very warme therewith and dip a cloth foure double in the same water and binde it fast about the sore with a rowler and keepe it warme dresse it thus twice a day A Water for a Fistula TAke one pint of white wine 1 ounce of juyce of Sage three penie weight of Borace in powder Camphire in powder the weight of foure pence boyle them all a prettie while on a gentle fire and it is done Wash the Fistula with this water for it is certainly good and approved to be true A Water for the Toothache TAke ground ivie salt and spearemint of each an handfull beat them very well together then boile them in a pint of vineger straine it and put a spoonfull of it into that side that aketh and hold downe your cheeke Another Water approved for the same TAke red rose leaves halfe a handfull Pomegranate-flowers as many two gaules sliced thinne boyle them all in three quarters of a pint of red wine and halfe a pint of faire water untill the third part be wasted then straine it and hold a little of it in your mouth a good while then spit it out and take more Also if there be any swelling on your cheeke apply the strainings betweene two clothes as hot as may be suffered This I have knowne to do good unto divers in
distill them in a rose-rosewater still a cloth being wet in this water will burne like a candle and will not be quenched with water Take one of these coffins put it into the Former and take the composition for middle-sized rockets mentioned before and put thereof spoonfull after spoonfull untill you haue filled the coffin unto the top of the former after the putting of euery second spoonfull into the coffin with a mallet giue two or three blowes upon the head of the rammer that the composition may bee well rammed into the coffin euery third or fourth driuing M. Norton wisheth if the rockets are to be fired in three or foure dayes to dip the rammer in gum-dragant and camphir dissolued in spirit of wine or good aqua vitae but if it will bee a month before they will bee fired then dip the rammer in oyle of peter or liquid varnish and linseed oyle mixed together If you would haue the rocket to giue a report or blow then within one diameter of the top driue a bottom of leather or six or eight double of paper pierce and prime either of them through in three or foure places and fill the rest of the coffin with whole gunpowder afterwards driue another bottom of leather and then with strong packthred choak the coffin close unâ—o it then take the rocket out of the Former and prime it at the broach-hole with a peece of prepared stouple and binde unto it a straight rod 6 or 7 times the length of the rocket and so heavy that being put on your finger it may ballast the rocket within two or three diameters of the same mark the following figure which represents a rocket ready made and finished A B the rocket C the stouple that primeth it D E F the rod bound unto the rocket with two strings G H I the hand that poyseth it How to make Serpents THe coffins for serpents are made of paper rowled nine or ten times upon a rowler not much thicker than a goose quill and about foure inches long The coffins must bee choaked almost in the midst but so that there may bee a little hole through which one may see the longest part of the coffins for Serpents must be filled with the composition specified before if you would haue it wamble in the ayre then choak it not after the composition but if you would haue it wamble then halfe-choak it as is demonstrated by the following figure the shorter end of the coffin must bee filled with whole gunpowder and choaked quite up as appeareth at B in the figure M N O which is the figure of a Serpent ready made How to make rayning fire TAke diuers goose quils and cut off the hollow ends of them and fill them with the composition before mentioned stopping them afterwards with a little wet gunpowder that the dry composition may not fall out How to make starres I Haue sufficiently taught the making of these in describing their compositions wherefore I will now onely present the figures of them unto your view A A signifieth two that are bound up in paper or cloth and peirced and primed with stouple the other two E E signifie those that are made up without paper and need no priming more than the powder or sulphur dust that they are rowled in How to make Petards YOu must make the coffins for them either of white yron or else of paper or parchment rowled upon a Former for the purpose and afterwards fitted with a couer which must be glewed on these coffins must be filled with whole gunpowder and peirced in the midst of the broad end and primed thereat with prepared stouple the paper ones must be couered all ouer with glew and the peirced The figure of a Petard ready made and primed is signified by the figure E. How to make compounded Rockets FIrst you must make the Rocket I taught you before you must not choake the end of it but eyther double downe halfe the coffin and with the rammer and a mallet give it one or two good blowes then with a bodkin pierce the paper unto the composition or else drive a bottome of leather fitted unto the bore of the Rocket and pierce it through in two or three places then pare or cut off the coffin equall thereunto to this end of the rocket you must binde a coffin wider a great deale then the Rocket is strew into it a little gunpowder dust that it may cover the bottome of this coffin and put therein with their mouthes downeward eyther golden rayne or serpents or both also starres or petards you must put some gunpowder dust among these when you have filled the coffin with these or such like cover the top of it with a peece of paper and paste upon that a picked crowned paper balast it with a rod and it is finished the figure followeth How to make fiends or fearefull apparitions THese must bee made of the compositions for Starres wrought upon cotton weeke dipped in aqua vitae wherein camphire hath beene dissolved and after what fashions your fancy doth most affect How to make fire Boxes YOu must make the coffins for fire Boxes of paste-board rowled upon a Former of what bignesse you list then binde them about with packthread and glew over the cords also glew bottoms unto them which must be pierced with a bodkin to prime them at In these boxes you may put golden rayne starres serpents petrars fiends devils The tops of these fire boxes must bee covered with paper as the compound Rockets Note that you must strew gunpowder dust a pretty thicknesse on the bottome of the fire-boxes and prime the hole at the bottome with prepared stouple How to make Swevels SWevels are nothing else but Rockets having in stead of a rod to ballast them a little cane bound fast unto them where through the rope passeth Note that you must be carefull to have your line strong even smooth and it must be rubd over with sope that it may not burn If you would have your Rockets to returne againe then binde two Rockets together with the breech of one towards the mouth of the other and let the stouple that primeth the one enter the breech of the other both kinds are expressed by the figures the uppermost whereof representeth the single one A B signifieth the Rocket D E the cane bound unto it through which a rope passeth The lowermost representeth the double Rocket A B signifieth one Rocket and C D another E the stouple that primeth the one and entreth the breech of the other the cane that the rope passeth thorough is supposed to be behinde the two Rockets How to make Gironells or fire wheeles THe making of fire wheeles consisteth onely in the placing of Rockets with the mouth of one towards the tayle of another round about certaine moveable wheels wherefore I thinke it sufficient only to describe the diversity of their fashions which follow How to make flying Dragons THe flying