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

Take of gunpowder fowre pounds, saltpeter one pound, charcoale fowre ounces, mingle them together.

A Composition for Rockets of fowre ounces.

Take of gunpowder fowre poundes, saltpeter one pound, charcoale fowre ounces, brimstone halfe an ounce, mingle them together.

A Composition for 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.