_A Composition for Rockets of eight, nine and tenne pounds._ Take saltpeter eight pounds, charcoale two pounds twelue ounces, brimstone one pound fowre ounces. Note that no practitioner (how exact soeuer) ought to relie upon a receipt, but first to trie one rocket, and if that be too weake adde more gunpowder, if it be too strong let him adde more charcoale untill hee finde them flie according unto his desire. Note that the charcoale is only to mitigate the violence of the powder, and to make the tayle of the rocket appeare more beautifull. Note also that the smaller the rockets be, they need the quicker receipts, and that in great rockets, there needeth not any gunpowder at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _The Composition for middle sized Rockets may serve for Serpents, and for rayning fire, or else the receipt for Rockets on the ground, which followeth heereafter._ _Compositions for Starres._ Take saltpeter one pound, brimstone halfe a pound, gunpowder fowre ounces, this must be bound up in paper or little ragges, and afterwards primed. _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.