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.