Take white lead a little red lead Spanish browne & umber grind them in oyle, & prime yor cloth therewith the 1st time, by spreading your coloure very even & thin with a knife, or with ?? (around thin chee.e tri..er one quarter being cut away, and made a little round wich will do very well) then when yor cloth is dry scrape it with a sharpe knife, cutting away the rubs & knots which stick up from the cloth, & with a pumis stone (made flatt) & sometimes rub of the colour from that pumis stone wth a flatt peece of another pumis stone, and when you have made it even prime it over again as before, with white L. a little red lead, Spanish browne, umber & lamp blacke if you will have it a darke primer, all these colours being ready ground by you may be tempered together lighter or darker according to the picture you will paint, if for a fare, make yor primer of a light blewish colour, and when it is perfectly dry it is fitt to worke upon wthout rubing it again with a pumis stone, note that if you put too much red lead into your primer, it will pill of in le..ght of time but especially on cloth when you roule it up. Note alsoe . the colour you prime yor cloth wth all must be as thicke as the colours you paint wth all note alsoe that you may prime yor boards or cloths y. 1st time with course colours the next with finer, but some painters prime these boards but once