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June 8th 57 Oxo:

54 Take of fritta ten pound & as much putty made of deleted by calcination of six parts of Tin and foure parts of lead & let these three Ingredients stand in fusion their due time to make Amell white

55 Take fritta six pound of the aforemention'd Putty foure pound Zaffora one pound let these stand in fusion their due time to make <blue> Amell red deleted

56 To make red Amell you must use Magnesia & scales of Iron N.B. Fritta is made of equall parts of pure white sand & Borallio reverberated till they incorporate together

57 Colour your F deleted Glasse red with <a very litle> Manganese green with Copper calcin'd per se.

58 Take Minium 4 parts & Copper calcind one part melt them together & make thereof a coloured past try likewise with Fritta 4 parts & Manganese one part or els with Manganese 1 part & Minium 4 parts keeping them their due time in fusion for one of those two ways will succeed

59 Upon peices of grossly tincted Fritta lay fine beat deleted leafe gold & presse it on upon the Dice being first a litle moisten'd to make it stick then strow on them as much finely powder'd Crystall glasse as is convenient that until the fusion of the'se' at end of word deleted glasse in a moderate but competent heat the Gold may be uniformely cased.

60 Take Flints heat them red hot & quench them in faire water & doe this soe often till you can reduce them to an impalpable powder then with as litle fixt salt & fluxaltered from 'flux'd' as may be run them with convenient colours then powder the vitrifyd Masse & free it as much as you can with distill'd vinager'a' altered from 'g' or otherwise from the salt or flux or both & vitrify it once more to harden it

61 Melt a pound of Rosin & to it add a quantity of a beane or nutmeg of yellow wax then by nimble stirring incorporate with it as much powder of beaten bricks as will suffice to bring it to a consistence fit for a cement for Glasse fountaines.