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

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

could to be revenged presently he buyeth two penny-worth of Fish-hookes and causeth a Taylor to sow them round about toward the upper part of his pockets with the points of them downwards and so the next day away he goes to the Faire againe amongst the throng throwing his Cloak on one shoulder seeming carelesse of his pocket wherein he had store of money Presently there was a Dyver nibling at the baite and nimbly had his hand in his pocket The Gentleman being wary perceived the Fish had swallowed the hooke gives a jerk aside which caused the hookes to catch good hold in his hand and then he had him sure Then said the Gentleman Fellow what maketh thy hand in my pocket Oh good Sir replyed the Pick-pocket pardon me I cannot pull it out Come saith the Gentleman softly to him because no body should take notice goe along with me So cheeke by jole they walked together with his hand fast in the pocket but covered with his Cloake and to a Tavern lovingly they goe together where the Gentleman told him of the losse he had sustained the day before and making of him to restore back his Money he cut out his pocket and let him goe Surely this Pick-pocket had good store of picking work to get the hooks out of his hand againe RECEIT XXI How to make Fowles and other small Birds drunk that you may take them with your hands YOu must observe what meat they love or use to eate as Wheat Barley or other Graine and lay the same to steep● in the Lees of Wine or in Aquavita or in the juice of Hemlock and strow the same Graine in the places where the Birds doe haunt Another Take Tormentil and boyle it with strong Wine Wheate Barley or other Graine then strew this in those places where you intend to take them or where they use to haunt and the Birds will eate the peeces amongst the Graine which will make them so drunk that they cannot flye away Another Make Past with Barley meale Onion blades and Henbane seeds and put or throw it where the Birds doe haunt These experiments are best to be done in Winter in a deepe Snow RECEIT XXII A dainty way to catch Fish in a dark night with a Candle underwater GEt an Urinall and put pretty soft clay therein and with something that is flat at the end presse the clay gently to the bottom of the glasse smoothing it as well as you can then take a stick and shape it about the bignes of a Candles end wet the stick and put it into the neck of the glasse making a hole in the middle of the clay as you make clay candlesticks Then make a little hoope of a willow stick and tye peeces of Corke in foure places of the hoope equally distant and get a thin light round peece of Boord and with foure little sticks of an equall length tye one end of them to the Corks and the other ends fasten to the boord to support it as you may see here in this Figure This might be done with the Glasse alone by tying Corks about the neck of the Glasse to keepe the mouth above water RECEIT XXIII An excellent Baite to catch Fish with an Angle MAke Past with fine Wheat Flower tempered with a little Saffron and Suger and baite your hooke therewith and they will bite apace This is a good baite for Roach Dace and such like Another Take the crum of a new penny White-loafe and an ounce of Coculus India and an ounce of Henbane-seed finely powdered temper the same well with good Aquavita into a Past and divide them into small peeces bigger then grains of wheate and then cast handfuls in at once into the water where is store of Fish and you shall presently see the operation of the same RECEIT XXIV How to make one Watching-Candle that shall out-last three Watching-Candles TAke a Pale or Bucket and fill it full of water and set it in the place where you intend that your light shall stand then take your Candle and warme it at the lower end and there stick a brasse farthing token or such like and when you will light your Candle put it gentlie down into the middle of the water but be sure that the bottome of the Candle doe not touch the bottome of the Pale and then it will swim upright to the very edge neere the light The reason that the Candle will last so long is caused by the coldnesse of the water And this is a safe way that no Rat can run away with the Candle lighted as I have heard that they have done by endangering the house with Fire RECEIT XXV How to write any name or mark upon a Paper and then burn it to ashes yet afterward it may be read plainly TAke a new cleane Pen that was never written withall and dip it in your own water as you do in Inke then strip up your Shirt sleeve above your wrist and upon your arme write your name or any name or any mark and then let it dry on your skin and nothing will be seene then put downe your sleeve and button your wrist Doe this privately and it will cause some to wonder Then take a peece of white Paper and write your name or the mark thereon with another Pen of black Inke but let it be written as like the other as you can Then take the paper and burne it and lay the ashes on a Table and stripping up your sleeve rub the ashes hard with your finger where you had written with your water then blow off the ashes and the name or marke will plainly be read on your arme in black Letters RECEIT XXVI How to see plainly any thing in a dark Roome in at a Doore or Window standing a great distance off IF there be never so darke a Roome with a Doore or Window open Take a Looking-glasse in your hand and hold it against the Sun at a great distance from the Doore or Window and moving the Glasse up and downe till the reflexion of the Sunne be upon your object and then you may perfectly behold any thing in the Roome or see to read a Letter Some unhappie Boyes use to dazle peoples eyes with a Glasse in this order as they walke the streets RECEIT XXVI How to view the back part of your head by Glasses IF you would behold the back part or shadow of your head for a wound or the like take a Looking-glasse and hold it behind your head and then take another Looking-glasse and hold it before you and from the Glasse behind you may see the shadow in the Glasse before you RECEIT XXVIII A pretty trick to tell or name all the spots or coate Cards in the pack and yet never see them YOu must privately drop a drop of water or drink about the bignesse of a two-pence on a Table before you where you sit and let any bodie shuffle the pack of Cards and then taking them

on the same RECEIT XLIII How to make Wax either Red or Greene. TAke to one pound of Wax in Summer three ounces of the cleerest Turpentine but if you make it in Winter take foure ounces of Turpentine melt these together over a soft fire stirring them with a stick and when they are well melted together take it off and let it coole a little And then mixe with the same the red root of Anchusa or Vermilion ground an ounce and an ounce of sweet Oyle stir these well together againe over the fire then take it off to coole and poure it into cold water and then upon a wet boord and your hands wet you may roale it into what forme you please Instead of Vermilion you may take three times as much Red-lead but that is not so good If you will make Greene Wax instead of Vermilion take the like quantitie of Verdigrease RECEIT XLIV A pretty way how to cast off Flowers in Waxe of divers colours CAuse a Stick to be turned round at one end somewhat Taperwise like the fashion of a Poking-stick lesser or bigger according to the bignesse of the Flower you intend to cast and at the smaller end thereof with your knife cut dents or nicks in the same long-wise as you see here in the Figure The letter A signifieth the Stick the letter B signifieth the Flower Then take a little panikin and in the same melt your Wax with a gentle fire and when it is melted take it off and then take your Stick having a Porrenger of faire water by you and dip the end into the water and then shake off the water or suck it off and then dip the stick into the Wax and sodainly put it out againe dipping it into the water againe to coole it and then you may take off your Flower and lay it by and in this sort you may make as many as you please For Yellow Flowers melt Yellow Wax for Red Red Wax for White White Wax for Green Green Wax Now for stalks for your Flowers you may stick in a small Wyre or a Bent of a Raison-fraile or the like You may have the coloured wax readie made at any of the VVax-Chandlers RECEIT XLV How to make a Bunch of Grapes with Greene Wax that will seeme to be naturall YOu must get a little stick turned round at the end about the bignesse of an Arrow and then have your Vessell of green wax melted as was shewn in the former Receit dipping your stick in the same about the third part of an inch deepe and it will be almost in the fashion of an Acron-Cup make a good many of them Then take an Egge and make a little hole in the bigger end of the shell lesse then a pennie and get out the Yolke thereof and dry the shell Then with a piece of your green Wax hold it to the fire rub or daub the shell therewith thinly all over then hold the shell in your left hand and with your other hand take up first one cup holding the same a little neere a Candle to warme and quickly stick it on your Egge and so doe with all the rest of the cups till you have fil'd it all over they must be set something close together Now when you have thus done take a little stick about the bignesse of the tag of a poynt and tye a Packthread in the middle thereof and then put the stick into the hole of the shel and so hang it up You may cut leaves like Vine leaves in greene Paper and fasten them to the string or stalk above the Bunch I have made some Womens teeth to water at this Conceit they seeme so naturall to the eye and these Grapes will last all the Yeare RECEIT XLVI How to Grave and Inlay colours into Gold Silver Iron or Copper to shew like Ammell FIrst cover your Mettall with a crust of warme wax and when it is cold with a fine sharp Bodkin draw or cut out the shape or proportion of what you please either Letters Flowers Borders or Scutchions of a reasonable largenesse then poure upon the same emptie places which you have Ingraven upon the Wax some few drops of strong water or Aqua-Fortis and let them lie awhile and when you find them deepe enough Graven mingle Orpiment and Mastick melted together for a Yellow colour and Vermilion and Mastick for a Red and Bice and Mastick for a Blew and Ceruse for White and Ivorie burnt for a Black Now when your Mastick hath bin melted with any of the aforesaid Colours let it coole and then beat the same into powder and lay the same powder within the graving and after lay the Mettle upon a small Charcoale-fire till the Mastick be melted and it will remain fast and firme therein a long time RECEIT XLVII How to Inlay Boxes Cabinets or other things with hard Waxe WIth a Pen draw upon your Box any thing what best pleaseth your fancie as Birds Beasts Flies Flowers Fruits Leaves Trayles Anticks Letters c. Then take a little Knife ground sharp at the point and cut or grave out the work prettie deepe which you have drawn with your Pen upon the wood when you have so done lay upon the same some Red or Green Hard-wax and with a hot Iron melt and rub hard the wax al over into the crevices or works which you have cut out and so let it coole then take a knife and scrape away the wax to the boord and then you shall have your worke which you drew to be inlaid very perfectly in the colour of your wax as though it were drawn with a Pen and will never wash nor weare off When you have scrapt it cleane hold it a little to the Fire and it will fetch a glosse on the wax and make it to shew the pleasanter RECEIT XLVIII How to harden the white of Eggs into an Artificiall Gum fit for many uses SEparate the whites of Eggs cleane from the Yolks and beat the whites very well into a cleare Oyle or Water and when it is setled skim off the froath then put the same into Bladders and hang them in a Chimney corner where fire is usually kept to dry and in a few daies the same will become as hard as Gum Arabick in hot weather you may hang your Bladders in the Sun to dry This Gum may be used instead of other Gums and with it you may varnish Prints or other things that are washed in Colours RECEIT XLIX How to make a true South Sun-dyall to be placed upright against a Wall or on a Poale I Intend not to speake of the multiplicity of Geometricall and Artificiall sorts and making of Sun-dyals of which many ingenious Artists have copiously written but onely a Mechanick way of two sorts for the benefit of some who would be glad to know how the houres of the day passe away Take a piece of good writing Paper and rub it over with Linsed Oyle and hang it to dry in

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