Red gum
Take red wax, vermillion, & a little of resins resin pitch, as above.
Bronze of copper
Take da some verdet & clear glue, & grind it together. Then make a layer on your wood, and take pin filings, and grind it on marble with water, then pour it on the wood & polish it with copper.
Bronze like tin
Take looking—glass tin, two ounces of quicksilver, & melt the looking—glass tin into a new pot. And difiant whenever it is all melted, put in the quickaiantsilver, & remove it from the fire, & let the said glue dry. Then take a piece of tin & burnish it on marble with clear water, and then coat it on the wood, and polish it with a piece of tin.
For making aquafortis
Take a demi—setier of vinegar with one ounce of verdigris, & one ounce of copperas & one ounce of solle, then put them together in a glass vial.
Or moulu
Take fine gold & put it on a quite clean bu marble & put aqua fortis & start crushing. Then take saltpetre & sal ammoniac, and put it into a shell which should be large & washed, to safeguard it.