Peacham, Henry: The compleat gentleman : fashioning him absolute in the most necessary and commendable qualities, concerning mind, or body, that may be required in a person of honor. To which is added the gentlemans exercise or, an exquisite practise, as well for drawing all manner of beasts, as for making colours, to be used in painting, limming, &c (London, 1661)

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B92

The manner of Annealing jour Glufh aster you
have laid on your colours.

Take Bricks*, and there-
with make an Oven fours
square , one foot and a hals
broad in this manner: and
raise it a foot and a hals high,
when you have done, lay iit-
t!e bars of Iron overthwart
thus: three or four, or as many as will serve,then raise
it above the barres one foot,
and a half more, then is it
high enough: when you pur-
pose to Anneal, take a plate
of Iron made sit for the afore
said Oven,or for want there-
of, take a blew stone, sueh
as they make Haver orOten
cakes upon, which being made fit for the aforesaid Q-
ven, lay it upon the cross bars of Iron: that done, take
sseekt lime,and sift it thorow a sine sive into the Oven,
upon the plate or stone, and make a bed of lime,then
lay your glass which you have wrought and drawn be-
fore, upon the bed of lime, then fift upon the said
glass, another bed of lime, and upon that bed lay other
glass, and so by beds you may lay as much glass as the
Oven will contain .* providing alwaies, that one glass
touch not another. Then make a soft fire underyour
glass, and let it burn till it be sufficiently annealed : it
may have ( you muft note ) too much or too little of
the sire, but to provide, that it /hall be well, you /hall
,do as solloweth.
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