MiIcCROGRAPHIAs 
fpigmentum powdered according to the quantity of Lead, about as 
much as vill le upon a Balf Crown piece will ferve for eighteen or 
twenty pound weight of fome forts of Lead ; others will require: more; or 
lef. After the Auripigmentum 4s put in, flir the Lead well, and the 
Auripigmentum wil] flame: when the flame * over, take out \fome 
of the Lead in a Ladle having a lip or notch in the brim for conveni- 
ent pouring out of the Lead,and being well warmed amongft the melted 
Lead, and with a flick, make foe fingle drops of Lead trickle out of 
the Ladle into water in a Glafs , which if they fall to be round and 
without tails, there is Auripigmentum enough put in, and the temper 
of the heat is right, otberwife put in-more. - Then lay two bars of Iron 
( or fome more proper Iron-toxl made on purpofe) upon a Pailofiwas 
ter,and place upon them a round Plate of Copper, of the fizeand figure 
of an ordinary large Pewter or Silver Trencher, the hollow whereof is to 
be about three inches over 5 the bottom lower then the brims about balf 
an inch, pierced with thirty, forty, or more fmall holes; the fmaller the 
holes are, the fitaller the fhot will bes and the brimi isto 0 be siesta aes 
the bottorn,to.conferve the heat she better. Jest D- 1x0 Fe on 
The bottom of the Trencher being fome four inches dif ‘ant frum the 
water in the Pail,Jay tpon it fome burning Coles,to keep the Lead melt- 
ed upon it... Then with the hot Ladle take Lead off the Pot where it 
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fronds melted, and pour it fofily upon the burning Coles over the bottom 
of the Trencher, and it willimmediately run through the holes: into the 
water in final round drops. ° Thws pour on new Lead fiill as faft.as 
it runs tbrough the Trencher. till all.be done; blowing now and then 
the Coles with hartd-Bellows, when the\ Lead in the Tie rencher cools fo iaa 
to flop from running. 
Whilft one pours on the Lead, isi muft, with another Ladle, 
thrufted four or rigs inches under water inthe Pail catch from time 
totime ome of the fhot,asit drops down, to fee heft and whetber 
there be any faultsin it. The greateft care is to keep the Lead upon 
the Trencher in the rig be dh i = if it be too cool 5 iewill not 
run through the Taihee though it ftand melted upon it 5 a this isto 
be 
