The secretes of the reuerende Maister Alexis of Piemount Containyng excellent remedies against diuers diseases, woundes, and other accidents, with the manner to make distillations, parfumes, confitures, diynges, colours, fusions and meltynges. ... Translated out of Frenche into Englishe, by Wyllyam Warde.

☞A goodlye waye and maner howe to make all these earthes verye fyne, and small, and almooste impalpable.

TAke whiche of these foresaied earthes you will, or anye other, and after you haue well stamped it, and syfted it, drye it in a kettle by the fyre, or in a fryenge panne, or other vessell, vn∣tyll it be verye whoate: than take it frome the fyre, and stampe it well, as before, with water or Vynaigre, heate it agayne, and braye it stylle with water, or Vynaygre, and neuer drye: doyng so fiue or sixe times. Fynallye you shall putte it in a vessell of white earthe, well leaded, and powre into it as muche cleare water as wyll surmounte it foure fyngars high: than styrre it with a lyttle cleane sticke, and lette it reste the space of an Aue Maria. Afterwarde poure the sayed water

finely and wisely into some other vessell that is cleane: And vpon the sayed earth that remayneth in the fyrste vessell, you shall powre other water, and styre it as be∣fore: than powre the same with the other fyrste powred out, and thus do so often, vntil that with the water, you haue poured out all the finest and smalleste parte of the same earth. And if there remaine yet in the firste vessell anye parte of grosse earth, braye it a new, and than put it with the other. This doen, you shall let all the same fyne and small earth, whiche you poured into the other vessell, go downe to the bottome: and than powre oute fayer and softely the water, and let the poulder dry that remayneth in the bottome, the whiche afterwarde you shall braye well once agayne, and passe it thorow a fyne sieue or sarce of Silke, if you thinke good, and you shall haue a poulder, suche as there is not the like, whiche you muste keepe, as the other before, in leather bagges, or in boxes of woode well stopped, pastynge or glewing the sides, to the intente that the poulder flie not awaye, for it is a substaunce almoost as fyne and as subtyle as the ayre.