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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45747	Chymical, medicinal, and chyrurgical addresses made to Samuel Hartlib, Esquire. Viz. 1. Whether the vrim & thummim were given in the mount, or perfected by art. ... 9. The new postilions, pretended prophetical prognostication, of what shall happen to physitians, chyrurgeons, apothecaries, alchymists, and miners.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing H978; ESTC R209495	57,837	197

books wrote a book intituled De interitu Alchymie which is as foolish as any of the other unless that when all his hopes were at an end he thought that some man would have come unto him and confuted him by shewing him the experience of it Well thus much for false books now as for true ones I could name many that could not be written but by those that had made certain trial of the work but for brevity sake and to keep this book within the price promised viz. two pence I will name onely four viz. The Compound of Alchymie written by Georgius Ripleus Anglus The Hierogliphical Figures of Nicholaus Tilamellus whose body lieth buried in Paris The works of Raymundus Lullius The two books of Bernardus Comes Tievisanus These four men shewed by their actions that they had the Art of the transmutation of Mettals For Georgius Ripleus Anglus maintained an Army of souldiers at Rhodes against the Turks at his own charge Nicholaus Tilamellus builded up seven Churches and seven Hospitals at Paris and endowed them with good revenues which may be easily proved Raymundus Lullius made gold in the Tower of London to furnish an Army to go against the Turks Bernardus Comes Trevisanus recovered his Earldome again which he had formerly spent in the seeking of this Art And now me thinks I hear every one demanding how shall we do to find out this grat secret But Geber an Arabian Prince and a famous Philosopher shall answer in his own words viz. non per lectionem librorum sed per immensam cognitionem per profundam imaginationem per assiduam praxim and when all this is done he concludeth that est donum Dei Altissimi qui cui vult largitur subtrahit Well now me thinks I hear the cousening Alchymists saying what shall we do now we have no other living To which I answer that I would gladly rid the world of cheaters if I could but if they must needs couzen then let them trade with those that have so little love to art that they cannot afford to read this book to defend themselves and that will improve the wits of the world very much so that it may possibly do more good than hurt for the truth is that the world is unhappy only for want of wit which I have demonstrated in a little book lately printed which sheweth how any Kingdome may live in great plenty prosperity health peace and happiness and the King and Governours may live in great honour and riches and not have half so much trouble as is usual in these times and if any one shall be cheated and lay the fault upon me for discovering of cheats in this book I cannot help it for he that is willing to do good must needs do some hurt unless men were Angels But in this case I see not but my action is justifiable for first I have given every one an antidote against cheating and if they will not take it let them be cheated and then I will shew them a way to recover their losses by an experiment tryed upon my self for till I was soundly cheated of divers hundred pounds I thought my self to be a very knowing man but then I found that I was a fool and so disdained not to learn wit at any bodies hands that could teach me whereby I attained a considerable quantity of knowledge which I will not give or change for any mans estate whatsoever but though I sped so well by being cheated yet I wish all others to take heed for fear least that their fortunes prove not so good as mine The second Chapter WHereas I have professed my self to be an Anticheator it behoveth me to discover the several ways whereby the world is so universally cheated by the cosening Alchymists and therefore though I could discover fourscore cheats yet at this time I will onely discover fourgrand ones and so conclude The first shall be to discover the knavery of Kelly the grand Impostor of the world whom the Emperour of Germany kept prisoner in a Castle and maintained him honourably thinking either by fair means or by foule to get the Philosophers Stone out of him who God knows had it not but made divers cosening projections before great men which by the report thereof have caused many to spend all that ever they had and it cannot be well estimated how many hundred thousand pounds have been spent in Europe about it since that time more than before And thus one of his projections was made before three great men sent over by Q Elizabeth to see the truth of the business He gave order to them to buy a warming panne which they did accordingly and brought it to him he took a pair of compasses and marked out a round plate in the middle of the cover thereof and with a round chisel he took out the piece then he put it in the fire and when it was red hot he put a little pouder upon it which flowed all over it and made it to look like to gold which is an easie matter to be done but when he came to fit it to the hole he had a piece of good gold taken out of a plate of gold by the compasses not altered and this by a trick of Legerdemain or slight of hand a thing common for I have known a Porter that could have done it he conveyed into the place and delivered the warming panne ●nto the hands of the spectators who brought it into England and the noise thereof made almost all mens ears to tingle and their fingers to itch till they were at the business and raised the price of Alchymie books fearfully Now if he had meant plain dealing he would have given them some of his pouder home to their lodging that they might have done the like again themselves at home but he neither offered it neither did they desire it at which I marvel for if he had denyed that as it is like that he would then the knavery had been presently discovered so that this false news had not been brought into England whereby many men have received great loss Some have reported that he clipped out a sheard with a pair of Goldsmiths sheers and then he took a little more time and cast one of gold like to it which is easily done whethersoever he did the whole scope of the business argueth cheating and his meaning was nothing else but by either of these wayes to make the spectators to be less suspitious like to a jugler that foldeth up his sleeves for the like purpurpose But admit that he had the true Philosophers Stone and that the body of a Mettal might be altered by it and turned into true gold without reduction of it to the first matter which is altogether unpossible yet he was a detestable villain to publish it in such manner to the great dammage of so many men as were thereby irritated to undoe themselves and not to give them some Advertisements

into the quicksilver and the grain of red pouder and set it into the fire and by degrees melt it down the Goldsmith did so when it was melted he bid him set it by to cool and then break it then he lay down in his bed and after a little while he asked the Goldsmith what he found in the bottom to which the Goldsmith answered that he found a little lump of gold as good as ever he saw so he prayed him to help him to money for it for his money was almost all spent that I will said the Goldsmith presently and went home and weighed it and brought him nineteen shillings in silver and was desirous to know how that red pouder was made he said it was an extract out of gold which he carried with him in his long travels for ease of carriage and that there was no other grain in it or else he would tell it him So the Goldsmith asked him how much he would have again of his half crown and he should have all if he please for he was well enough paid for his work in seeing that rare piece of Art no said the Alchymist take it all and I thank you too so the Goldsmith took his leave with great respect then he laid down in his bed a little while and by and by he knocked for his Hostess who came immediately and he prayed her to call for a porter whilst that he wrote a note she did so when the porter came he sent him to his fellow cheater who lay in the other end of the Town who presently brought him a letter formally framed betwixt them upon the reading whereof he called for his Hostess again and desired her to fetch the Goldsmith again she did so when she brought him he was rising and gruntled and groaned and told the goldsmith that though he was not well yet necessity forced him to go about earnest business and shewed him the Letter and prayed him to read it whilst he put on his cloaths and when the Goldsmith had read it he said you see what a strait I am in for twenty pounds can you furnish me and to morrow or next day you shall work for me and pay your self and I will leave you my box in pawn which now you know how to make five hundred pounds of it as well as I the Goldsmith answered it shall be done and went down and told the Hostess all things and also told her that the Gentleman was in great distress for twenty pounds and that he had promised to furnish him instantly but he had but ten pounds by him if she pleased to furnish him with the other ten pounds she should be sure enough to have it with great advantage for so short a time for saith he we shall have his box in pawn and will make bold with twice as much of his pouder as our money comes to and besides that he will pay us royally I warrant you and all the while I can do the work so well that I should be glad never to hear of him more so she agreed and they brought him up twenty pounds presently whereupon he delivered them the box and made a motion to have it sealed up but at length he said that because they had furnished him in his necessity and because he esteemed them to be honest people in regard of his Host he would not stay to seal it and so took his leave and prayed the Goldsmith to be ready within a day or two to help him to work but from that day to this they never saw him so when he came not again vvithin a vvek or a fortnight they concluded that some misfortone had happened to him or that he had taken cold by going abroad so hastily being not well and so was dead for else he would have sent about it before that time if he were but sick so they resolved to make use of it and fell to work with great alacrity but when they could make no gold their hearts were cold and they found themselves to be miserably cheated The fourth Cheat. This Cheat is described in old Chawcer in his Canterbury Tale but because everyone hath not that book I will relate it briefly and those that would see it more largely described shall be referred to the said book And thus it was done The Cheater took a charcoal about two inches long and one inch thick and did cleave it through the middle and made a little concavity in the middle thereof and put in a little ingot of gold weighing an ounce into the middle of it and glewed it up again so that it seemed to be nothing but a very coal then before the cheated he put in one ounce of quicksilver into a crucib●e and a little red powder with it and bid the cheated to set it into the fire and when it began to smoak oh saith he I must stir it a little to mingle the pouder with the Mercury or else we shall have great loss so he took up a coal from the heap with the tongs like to his coal which he had prepared and let it fall out of the tongs by the side of the heap and dropped down his own coal by it and took it up in room of the other and stirred the quicksilver and the pouder together with it and left the coal in the pot and then bid the cheated to cover the pot with charcoals and to make a good fire and after a little space to blow it strongly with a pair of good hand bellows til it was melted for he assured him that the quicksilver would be fixed and turned into gold by the vertue of that small quantity of pouder which the cheated found by expeperience as he verily thought and so was earnest with the cheater to teach him his Art but what bargain they made I have forgotten for it is twenty years since I read Chawcers book Now whereas I have received the reports of some of these Cheaters in divers manners yet I am sure that they being wrought according to my prescription will cheat almost any man that hath not read this book or Chawcers unless a man should happen upon one that knoweth the great work which is hardly to be found in ten Kingdoms for he knoweth that none of these things can be done unless they be meer albifications or citrinations but are nought else but sophistications and delusions and will abide no triall unless it be the eyes of an ignorant man that hath no skill in mettals Well now I will adde some more Caveats to fill up my book and so make a short conclusion And first To sum up all Let men beware of all books and receipts that teach the multiplication of gold or silver with common quicksilver by way of animation or minera for they cannot be joyned inseparably by any medium or means whatsoever 2. Let all men beware of any books or receipts which teach any dissolutions into clear water like