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which it yields. Cider affords by way of Distillation , an incompara-ble and useful Spirit, and that in such Plenty, as from four stpuarts, a‘Pint has been extracted.

sy. r must not prescribe to other Palates , by asserting to what De-gree of Perfebfion good Cider may be raised, or to compare it withWines : But when the late King ( of blessed Memory) came to Be-eford in his Distress, and such of the Gentry of Wo rcesi erfb ire as werebrought thither as Prisoners ; both King , Nobility, and Gentry , didprefer it before the best Wines those Parts afforded; and to my Know-ledge that Cider had no kind of Mixture. Generally all the Gentryof Herefordshire do abhor all Mixtures.

Yet if any Man have a Desire to try Conclusions, and by an harm-less Art to convert Cider into Canary<wine ; let the Cider be of theformer Year, Masculine , and in full Body, yet pleasant and \ye11 Tast-ed. Into such Cider put a Spoonful , o x so, of the Spirit of Clary, icwill have lo much of the Race of Canary, as may deceive some whopretend they have discerning Palates.

Sir Paul NeileV Discourse of CIDER'

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My Lord,

N Obedience to the Commands of this Honourable Society, I

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at length endeavour’d to give this brief Account of that little

1 know concerning the ordering of Cider ; and in that I lhall ppound to my self fix Things. sl.

First, To shew that Cider made of the best Eating-Appl eS ^needs be once the best, (that is to lay) the plealantest Cider. .^.

* Secondly, That hitherto the general Opinion hath been others ’and that the Reason of that Mistake was the not apprehending theCause why the Pipphi-Cider, &c. did not retain its Sweetness, "the Hard Apple-Cider did. ' 0 r-

Thirdiy , What is the true Cause that Pippin Cider , used in th edinary Method, will not retain its Sweetncis.

Fourthly, How to cure that Evil in Pippin-Cider. ^

Fifthly, A probable Conjecture how in some Degree by the AMethod to amend the Hard-Apple-Cider, and French-Wine. r jjhol‘

Sixthly, That what is here propounded cannot chuse but i>c ^some , and stray be done to what Degree every Man’s PalB e

wist. bef° re

Having now told your sotdfbip what I will endeavour to do, ^

I enter upon it, I must declare what I will not in the least P rto do. , . j

i. I do not pretend to any Thing concerning the planting ast.^ssing of Trees, Sdc.

Nor what Trees will soonest bear, or last longest. . , a st

Nor what forts of Trees are the best Bearers, and may witnDanger grow in common Fields. ■

Nor what fort of Fruit will yield the greatest store of Cider,