31pTorches to burn against Wind and Water.

Make Cotton boil in Salt Nitre, brimstone

tempred in Aq. Vitæ and put upon þe Cotton;

then take wax and rosin of each two ounces,

5Camphire ounce j. Terebenthine ounce ij. black

pitch ounce j. make 4 weeke together, and make

a torch.

A Water for the Face.

10Take Allumen and put it into a glass, then

burie þe Glass in þe water, and þe Allom

will turne into water.

To prepare Tartar.

15Take Tartar in per os: As much as pleaseth make it boil in

common water in a kettle, skimming þe

filth of it.

To make Aq. Vitæ, to fix any Spirrit.

20Take Tartar calcined and put upon it some good

Aq. Vitæ in an earthen pan, then put this

matter in a glass bodye with a recipient and

distill it. and note þat if you have pound iij of

Arsnic you /must\ have ounce vj of this water, distil it

25until þe fæces remain dry, then take þe

fæces .j. Arsenick, and try if it do melt upon

a plate of Iron or Brass: and if it do frye

as waxe; if not put þe water again upon it, and

reiterate þe distillation, and so it will be fixt.

30of þe which put one part upon 6 partes of

luna and of brasse, and you shall have a fair

thing and sweet and malleable. Mister Barnard Weight

Chirurgion of Oxford, did copie this for a good thing.