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and cool that affection and goodwill which you have pro- 

 fessed to me. 



Middleton, July 17, 1670. 



Mr. WiLLTTGHBY to Mr. Wray, from Ludlow, 13 Kal. Augusti. 

 F. W. Johanni W., S. P. D. 



Nunc scribo ut te certiorem faciam, quod episcopus 

 noster in reditu e Fonte Spadano prope Banburiam (ubi 

 aquas nunc bibit) MidcUetoni cupit tabulas suas perficere 

 et emendare. Obnixe igitiu- rogo ut sine mora illuc fes- 

 tinares ; ut si fieri potest ibi sis ante Idus Augusti. 

 Sine te enim frustra erit aliquid ejusmodi aggredi. 



Mr. Willughby's Observations. 



OF ENAJtELLING. 



Most of the pastes come from . They first en- 

 grave the rings to receive the enamel, then lay on the 

 enamel, and put it either in a furnace (or for a single 

 ring, lay it on a charcoal), and melt it with the blast of 

 a lamp, blown upon it with a crooked pipe ; then they 

 rub it smooth with a whetstone, and melt it again, and 

 at last restore a gloss, by boiling it in water where there 

 is aqua fortis, &c. ; and at last rub it over again with a 

 smooth steel. 



OP SODDEEING. 



To sodder gold, they always use the coarser to sodder 

 the finer. They dip a thin plate of gold in borax, and, 

 laying it in the chink to be soddered, then they melt it 

 with the flame of a lamp. 



A ring may be stretched to any bigness, by driving 



