The Mysteryes of Nature and Art / Conteined in foure severall Tretises, The first of water workes, The second of Fyer workes, The third of Drawing, Colouring, Painting, and Engraving, The fourth of divers Experiments, as wel serviceable as delightful: partly Collected, and partly of the Authors Peculiar Practice, and Invention

by John Bate

Compositions for Rockets of all sizes according unto

the prescription of the noted Professors,

Mr Malthus, Mr Norton, and the

French Authour, Des recreationes

Mathematiques.

A Composition for Rockets of one ounce.

Take of gunpowder, saltpeter and charcoale, of each one ounce and a halfe, mingle them together, and it is done. Note heere, as I told you before, that all your ingredients ought to be first powdred by themselues, and afterwards mixed very well together.

A Composition for Rockets of two and three ounces.

Take of gunpowder fowre ounces and a halfe, saltpeter one ounce, mixe them together.

A Composition for Rockets of foure ounces.