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
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
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
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
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
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
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