The same.

There is yet one other Example
very rare; of what was done at
the Hague by a Silver-Smith, whose
name was Grill: how he in the year
1664. by Spirit of Salt, not
prepared in the Vulgar manner,
transmuted Lead so, as from one
pound, he received three parts of
the best Silver, and two ounces of
most fixed Gold.

At the Hague, a certain Silver-Smith,
and a much exercised Disciple
of Alchimy, but according to
the nature of Alchimy, a very poor
man; did sometime since require
Spirit of Salt, not vulgarly prepared,
of a loving Friend of Mine, a
Cloath-Dyer, by name, John Casparus
Knottnerus. My Friend giving
the same to him; demanded,
whether he would use that Spirit
of Salt, he now had, for Metals,
or not? Grill made answer; for
Metalls. And accordingly he afterward
powred this Spirit of Salt