The arte of warre, written first in Italia[n] by Nicholas Machiauell, and set forthe in Englishe by Peter Whitehorne, studient at Graies Inne: with an addicio[n] of other like marcialle feates and experimentes, and in a table in the ende of the booke maie appere

Hovve to make a mixture in stone that shall kendell fyre vvith vvater or spittell. Cap. xxxvii.

THis stone is very necessary for a Captaine to gyue fyre to his gunners, when through foul wether, all their matches shulde happen to gowe oute, and where they cannot kindell them againe bycause of the raine. Firste take vnsla∣ked lyme one parte, Tutia alessandrina vnprepared one parte, saltpeter very wel refined one parte, quicke brimstone twoo partes, Camphere twoo partes, cala¦mite stone one parte: Al these thinges muste bee well beaten and sifted, and bounde harde together with a pese of newe linen clothe, and put into a copell of year thē cuppes, suche as goldesmithes vse to melte in, the

mouthes of whiche muste be ioyned together & faste bounde with yron wyre, and daubed ouer with lutum sapientia, that it breathe not oute, and then dried a lit∣tel, till it becum yelowe, that don, put it into a fornes where they burne bricke or yearthen vesells, and let it tarie therin as longe as the bricke or yearthē vesselles be a bakinge, and then takinge it oute, you shall se it made like vnto a brickstone.