[MR] sealing wax, candle wax, etc.

[chagankhulan at clan-whitewing.org]

Wow!  FAscinating.

Chagan


> --- 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.
>
>
>
> You will be assimilated; obedience is feudal.
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