Another receipt for Starres.
Take of saltpeter one pound, gunpowder and brimston of each halfe a pound; these must be mixed together, and of them make a paste, with a sufficient quantity of oile of peter, or else of fayre water; of this paste you shall make little balles, and roll them in drie gunpowder dust; then drie them, and keepe them for your occasions.
Another.
Take a quarter of a pinte of aqua vitæ, and dissolue therein one ounce, and a halfe of camphire, and dip therin cotten bumbast, and afterwards roule it up into little balles; afterwards rowle them in powder of quick brimstone, and reserue them for use.
Another receipt for Starres, whereof you may make fiends and divers apparitions according unto your fancie.
Take gum dragant, put it into an yron pan, and rost it in the embers; then powder it, and dissolve it afterwards in aqua vitæ, and it will become a jellie, then straine it; dissolve also camphire in other aqua vitæ. Mixe both these dissolutions together, and sprinkle therein this following powder.
Take saltpeter one pound, brimstone halfe a pound, gunpowder three pound, charcoale halfe a pound; when you have mingled and stirred them well together, mixe them well with the aforesayd jelly, and then make it into little balles, or into what fashion else you please, then cool them in gunpowder dust, and keepe them for use.
Compositions for receipts of fireworkes, that operate upon the earth.
For Rockets there needeth onely gunpowder finely beaten and searced.
Likewise for all the other sorts, searced gunpowder will serue, which may be abated, or alayed with charcoal dust at your pleasure.