[MR] sealing wax, candle wax, etc.

[Alex Long]

--- On Wed, 1/7/09, cathal at mindspring.com <cathal at mindspring.com> wrote:

From: cathal at mindspring.com <cathal at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [MR] sealing wax, candle wax, etc.
To: "Alex Long" <kyrilex at yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 1:42 PM


From:John Partrige, The Treasurie of Commodious Conceipts and Hidden Secrets, 1573 

To make red sealyng wax.

Take one pound of Wax .iii. ounces of cleare Tyrpentyne in Sommer, in Winter take fowre: melte them together with a soft fyre: Then take it from the fire and let it coole: Then put in Uermylion berye fynely grounde, and Salet Oyle, of each an ounce, and mix them well together, and it is perfect good.

That's the Chancery wax; Exchequer wax was was green and used verdigris (copper chloride).  The other differentiation was a later, oop black wax used by the Admiralty and had sooted pine resin.

Thomas Frederick Tout's _Chapters in the Administrative History of Medieval England: The Wardrobe, The Chambers and the Small Seals_ (6 vols.)makes reference to the use of the government seals and their respective colors.

Cathal.



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