Nimble and make a good Flight When he is Maned Lured and Enseamed then is your proper time to bring him to the Flight which if it happen to be at the Pheasant or Partridge in Woody or much Inclosed Ground then upon Lureing him Cast the Lure into some Bush or low Tree that you may bring him to a stand then draw it out and give him Notice that he may Sieze it Feed him daily on the Ground under some Shrubs or Bushes When you first Fly him at the Game it must be at such as are Young the Easier to be Taken and Mastered for his Encouragement but if it be a Long Winged Hawk you Fly in Champion Ground do what you can to keep him from the Stand and Maintain him on the Wing till you or your Dogs have Sprung the Game under him when having the Advantage of Stooping he may the easier Strike and Subdue it but if you would be for sure Killing more than for Sport to Encourage your Hawk first Spring the Game and Mark it when being come to the Mark Cast him off and when he is got to his Height lay in your Spannels that so you may Retreive the Game Underneath him and after this Rule with little Variation Fly all Manner of Long Winged Hawks The Management of Hawks in their Flight and Particularly to Fly at the River AS for Short Winged Hawks it will be Proper to Fly them from the Fist only and to make them Bold and Couragious Hide a Partridge or such Fowl as they take under a Hat or some such thing and when you have well Managed the Hawk let go the Train and Cast off the Hawk whilst your Spannels are upon the Range To make the Flight at the River and the Hawk Expert at it Whistle off a Hawk that has been well Experienced and is a Sure Killer suffering him so long to Enew the Fowl till he bring her to the Plunge then having taken him down Reward him for his Encouragement then set him by to be ready on Occasion and Whistle off the Young Hawk and when he is at the Height of his Gaile and make him by often shewing it him Familiar with the Water and at any time when he Looks out to make him more Inward Call him with the Gibbit Call and so Order him till you have brought him over the Fowl and make in on both sides the Water where the Game is with your Company and lay forth your Fowl which if the Hawk Strike and Truss make presently in and helping so Crossing or Breaking the Wings of the Fowl that he may Secure her take his Pleasure of her but if on the first stoop he Kill her not suffer him again to take his Gail lay the Fowl forth as you did before Continue so to do till it is Landed then for his Encouragement Reward him with the Neck Gizard and heart butifit happen the first Fowl by strength Escape him flying him Immediately on another more weak lest by being baulked he grow faint hearted and Dastardly in the attempt for ever after A Plain and Easie Introduction to the most curious Art and Healthful Exercise of Ringing Musically on 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. or 9. Bells SInce the Knowledge of this Art has been much desired by many and is a very healthful as well as Pleasant Exercise I have placed an Introduction to Young Ringers in this so useful a Book of Rarityes though at first sight it may appear a Digression from the rest however since I designed this work to fit every one as near as may be I cannot but Conclude that this will be desired by many and can be hurtful to none The Invention of Ringing is Mathematical produceing wonderful Effects as I shall shew in the Sequel Of the Changes THe Number of Changes are thus to be Ordered Two must first be Admitted to be varied two ways and so to find out the Changes in Three Two must be Multiplyed by Three and so the Product will be Six and that multiplyed by Four will produce Twenty Four which for the Changes of Three is the compleat Number and the Six Multiplyed by Four will produce Twenty Four the compleat Changes on Four and these Multiplyed by Five produce 120 the compleat Changes on Five and Multiply that 120 by Six it will produce 720. And that makes the compleat Changes on 6 Bells multiply this 720 by 7 and it produces 5040 and consequently as the Changes rise and fall the Numbers are more or less and may be carryed so high that Arithmatick wants a Number to Name them for an Age is not sufficient to Ring them out though every Change shall Varie to Admiration As for Example we admit the Figures 1 and 2 may be crossed in this manner 1. 2. and then 2. 1. thus allowed though the Numbers are never so many as on 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. or 9 Bells the same figure thus set down a Thousand times will Vary particularly on the three latter Of Peals THe Musicalness of the Changes not being very Intelligable to ordinary Ringers and the best many times Puzled and at a loss to find them out the more Judicious Professors concluded it necessary to cast Peals that so the Musical Notes might the better strike the Fancy and lead them more sensible and easier to a true understanding in Ringing rendering it for their encouragement the more taking and delightful for every Peal on Bells Tuned to the Principals of Musick express the Notes for in a Peal of six Bells you have exactly the six Musical Notes viz. La. Sol. Fa. Mi-Re Ut. but to make them charming and harmonious they must be struck with Skill and deliberation gradually striking or leading with the lowest Note and so rising up to the highest and then down again to the lowest causing the Fourth Bell to Hunt up to the Seventh and then dodg unless prevented by the Treble and so any other of the number Seven so that in the compleat number of Changes of the first striking there shall not be rung over twice the same and in this doing you must have a Musical Ear and a steady hand to observe the least Defect and mend it to mend or reverse it by dodging or falling in course as the Bells hunt up or down by putting in between or taking place in a compleat Harmony Of Cross Peals HAving already laid the ground work for plain Peals to introduce the Learner I now proceed to Cross Peals These are so Termed because of their intricacy or Cross method wherein divers Notes moving as it were at once Cross each other some moving up and others down at the same time and that the Learner may the easier find it out and Comply with it let him observe that One Note called the Hunt is a Guide to the rest making one constant motion and uniform throughout the Peals differing from that of the other Notes though keeping a continual Motion through the several Notes
long Lost that they are altogether Wasted or Embezelled To know what Place is best to Live and Thrive in whether one shall be Rich or Poor Long Life or Short what Sickness or Crosses shall befall one ONE Considerable thing has been desired by many and that is to know the Places where they may Thrive best or the Employments Destined by the Heavenly Constellations whereby they may best Thrive in the World This is to be considered by the Constellation or Planet the Party is Born under and the Sign in which at that time it is which gives the Influence in Affairs of Life and Note that the Moon passes through the Twelve Signs of the Zodiack in 28 Days some odd Hours and Minutes by Observing the Birth whilst she is in these several Signs the following Conjactures are to be made If in Aries or Taurus thus Charactered ♈ ♉ the Party shall Thrive best in Inland Countrys Manageing Rural Affairs as Breeding Cattle Tilling Ground Planting Fruit Trees leading a happy contented Life amidst great Plenty and Encrease and Live to a good Old Age have many Children If the Moon be in Gemini at the Nativity thus Charactered ♊ then shall there be great Advantages by Marriages and in populous Towns or Citys is the best place of Living Dealing in Crafts or Working in Manufactures but Sickness will happen and a Vigorous Old Age hardly be Obtained If the Moon be in Cancer thus Charactered ♋ the Party shall deal in Minerals to Thrive best or Silver Brass Copper Tin Lead or Iron and Gain much by the Crafts and Trades they are properly used in Working in Fire or else Profess Chymistry or Alchymy and Citys or other Great Places of Trafick are the best to Settle in for Thriveing and growing Rich though at first the Party will not fail to meet with some Misfortunes and Disencouragements however be not Disheartened they will Blow over and a more Prosperous Sceen appear yet will the Party Born so be troubled with Hot Diseases as Feavours continual Intermiting Feavours Epylepsies Fluxes c. If the Moon be in Leo when the Nativity happens it is thus Charactered ♌ it betokens the Party Stout Generous and Born to great Fortune Rising by the Favour of Princes and Great Men. If a Male Heroick and Valiant Actions shall get him Fame and Renown if a Female she shall have Honourable Marriages but neither of their Lives are promised to continue to Old Age by reason they will be of a dry fiery Constitution the most Thriveing Place to Live in will be near Princes Courts the Houses of Great Men in populous Towns or Citys or Travelling in Forreign Countrys to get Fame and Riches If the Moon be in Virgo at the time of the Nativity it denotes the Man or Woman shall be loving affable and of a winning Behaviour gaining the Love of all have Encrease of beautiful Children though to Women it denotes Pains and Perril in Child-birth The best way to Thrive is by Manual Occupation Manufactures in Linnen Woollen and the like but they will be troubled with Phlegmatick Diseases as Colds Coughs Consumption Dropseys Rheumatisms and the like coveting a Country Life where it is Alotted for Persons Born under this Caelestial Sign and Dominion of the Moon best to Thrive however they shall Live long but get no great store of Wealth This Sign is thus Charactered ♠If the Nativity fall in the Moons Ingress to Libra thus Charactered ♎ the Party shall best Thrive in Citys or Towns by Selling Trades or Merchantdize dealing much in Wares and growing Rich thereby of a temporate moderate Constitution not over scraping or Covetuous of Riches though much Plenty shall be gotten by Industry the Diseases that attend such Persons shall be indifferently mixed some times Hot at other times Cold and they are promised mostly to see a middle Age with Comfort of many Children If the Nativity falls out when the Moon is in the Sign Scorpio thus Charactered ♠the Party shall have but an indifferent Being forced to move from Place to Place by reason of Malicious Enemys and be in Danger to Dye at last by Poyson or some Malignant Infection If the Moon be in Sagittarius thus Charactered ♠near Woods and Forrests is the properest Place to Live in the Party shall be much delighted in Hunting Shooting be very Hardy Dexterous and Ingenious in Understanding and the Trust Reposed whereby the Party shall gain Favour and be Advanced either in Service or Marriage but in the end shall be in danger of Life if not Dye of some Wound gotten in a Quarrel or Privately given by a Treacherous Enemy or Furious Beast If the Moon Cast the Nativity of a Person in Capricorne the Person shall be given much to Lustful Desires it is thus Charactered ♑ delighting in Rural Affairs yet subject to Remove often from Place to Place and not long Contented with any fixed Abode however disappointments happening at the first the End shall be more Favourable and Fortu-tunate by Marriage though no great store of Children yet Hot and Dry Diseases will much Afflict the Party and extream Old Age is not promised him or her Born under this Influence If the Moon be in the Signs Aquarius or Pisces thus Charactered ♒ ♓ it denotes the Party to be of an Unstable Roving Mind yet very Industrious given to the desire of Travel and to Marine Affairs Thriveing best by Merchantdize and delighting in Sea-port Towns and Places near Great Waters most commonly Successful gaining great Riches but of a phlegmatick Constitution subject to Agnes Dropseys and other Distempers occasioned by Cold and Moisture but has a promise of long Life though not over Fruitful in Children And thus may many other things be Conjectured or Gathered from this that I have not set down And to be Informed when the Moon is in any of these Signs and Predominant to compare it with the time of Birth for the more assurance of its Influence it may upon first view be found in many Common Almanacks each Sign Governing a Solar Month of which there are but Twelve to the Year though of Lunar Months Thirteen How to Resolve all Lawful Questions Relating to Marriage Friendship Journying Life Long or Short Business Success or any others truly stated TO be informed in curious Questions better than if you go to those that Imprudently are called by the Vulgar Cunning-men I shall put you into such a Method as you will be Enabled to do it your self without Trouble or Expence of money or being Scared or Affrighted with their pretended Conjuration being the same Rule they take to make their Guesses and Conjectures which often hit Right The Planets and other Stars Considered in their Proper Motion Positions Oppositions and Conjunctions for so they have a great Influence on Earthly Things and over the Action of Men to Dispose and Order them in their Affairs and Moderate many Matters that would other ways be Violent and Destructive
FEBRUARY Cut Quicksets and supply the Decayed places with New Ones Plant Vines Hops Liquorish and all Shrubs bearing Fruit sow Oynions Pease Beans Salleting for the spring and Pot Herbs Moss Fruit Trees and Prune them take off Superfluous Branches not yet Removed Graft on Young Stocks and Manure Barren Soile with Dung and other Manure to Render it Fertile lay Traps for Vermino In MARCH The Weather being open the Wind not in the Cold Quarters Cover the Roots of Fruit. Trees that before were Open with Dung Set Quicksets and Graft choice Siens Sow Barly Oats Oynions Parsnips Carroots Cucumbers Mellions Set Artichoaks Sage and all kind of Pot Herbs Bleed and Geld Cattle in the Waine of the Moon Sow all manner of Garden Seeds for the Spring and Summer store In APRIL Sow Flax Hemp and Pole your Hops set and sow what Plants and Herbs were before wanting open the Mouths of your Bee Hives clean their stools rub them over with sweet Herbs to Cherish Cheer and Enable them to take the more Pleasure in their Labour upon their first coming out weed Gardens and Corn prepare for Dary-work Bark Trees and Raise Choice Flowers In MAY. In the beginning of this Month sow and set all manner of tender Summer Herbs continue to weed trim up your Hop Gardens cut off Superfluous Branthes weed Corn Distill Cordial Waters make Conserves drive Rivers and drain Plashes In JUNE Shear your Sheep the Moon Encreasing Geld Lambs and Calves the Moon Decreasing sow Lettice and Radishes three or four Days after the Full Moon gather such Herbs as you would keep Dry for the winters Use in the Full of the Moon when the Sun has drawn up the Dew and Moisture from them set Rosemary and July-flowers and stake up weak Plants and Flowers In JULY Gather forward Summer Seeds when the Sun has dryed them cut off needless suckers drive Bees Mow Inoculate Inarch in the Full Moon gather the Seeds of such Flowers as are Ripe Dry them in the Sun then Hang them in the Pods to Harden To Kill Fleas and Bugs strow Powder of Rue Wormwood and Nut-gals under your Bed In AUGUST Take the Opportunity of the fairest weather to Reap in from the before mentioned Directions relating to weather neither Reap nor Mow Corn too early let the Sun be pretty well Risen when you begin and it will prevent much the danger of Musting and Sweating gather Garden seeds within a Day or two of the Moons Full lay Traps for Vermin gather Fruit in Dry Days sow Seeds for Winter Salleting and Pot Herbs In SEPTEMBER Gather Hops the weather being dry and the Dew off from them take Honey make Verjuce Sider Perry and other Liquors of Fruits remove set Slips of Flowers remove Young Trees and Plants marking them that in the Transplantation they may stand to the same quarters of the Wind they first grew do this in the New of the Moon the Wind at South or West cut Quicksets and gather Winter Fruit without Bruising sow Wheat and Rye sow Parsnips Carroots and Turnops for Winter store In OCTOBER Continue to sow Wheat and Rye remove young Trees and Plants in the New of the Moon cut Rose Trees Cyprus Juniper and Box set Kernel Stones and Nuts gather Grapes in the beginning of the Month the weather being dry make an end of gathering Winter Fruit lay Open the Roots of Fruit Trees and Trench your Ground Kill Swine for your winter store In NOVEMBER Fell Timber Moss Fruit Trees Geld Calves Purge your Cattle to prevent Diseases set Crabb stocks to Graft on in the last Quarter of the Moon set Pease and Beans sow Parsnips and Carroot Seeds Trench Garden Ground with Dung make Drains to carry the water off In DECEMBER Continue to Fell Timber set Traps Sprunges c. for Hares Rabbits and Wild Fowl cover your choice Flowers and Plants with Mats or Straw coat or double cover your Bee-hives Bleed Horses if the weather be Open and Drench your other Cattle keep good Fires Hospitallity and Wholsom warm Dyet and thus much in general Observations what is to be done relating to Husbandry throughout the Year which cannot but be of Use to the Honest Country Man c. Signs of Murrein Rot or such like Destroying Diseases in Cattle how to Prevent or Remedy them CAttle are one main Support of the Nation affording so many Commodities to Man so that without their doing Well and Multiplying we should be but in a Bad Condition therefore it ought to be the Care of those who are most Concerned with them and to whose particular Advantage they more Immediately Redound to look Carefully to them and secure their Health as much as may be and because Murreins among Larger Cattle and Rots among the Smaller are the most Fatal of Diseases and sweep them away by Herds and Flocks I shall from long Experience show the nearest way to fore-see the approaching Danger which coming for want of such Precaution or Fore-sight has Ruined many and having fore-shewed it tell how it may be Helped if in spight of Care it takes Effect which sometimes it will do Signs of Murrein that do befal Cattle IF the Moon change 3 days before St. Bartholomew's Day it will be a sickly Year amongst Cattle but this is not the Rule I intend to Direct you by for the observance of the particular above-mentioned but after that Day is over and no Rain fallen in the Night go as soon as it is day into the Fields of Pasture where your Cattle are to be kept and lying down with your Eye against the Suns rising as even as you can with the surface of the Earth and if you perceive a glistning like Spider threads or a white jelly froth or foam on the Grass then Infectious Vapours are beginning to Rise out of the Earth and to fall down in poisonous Dews threatning Infection to the larger sort of Cattle especially therefore for a while feed them on highe and dryer grounds but if no such thing at this time can be discerned by reason the weather may be hot and draw up that Jelly or whiteness of corrupted Dew look immediately at the time ordered on Michaelmas day in the morning and if you observe it then it will have the like effects though somewhat weaker and the Air less Corrupted To prevent therefore this Murrein Long-sought or as some call it Gurget If you are constrained to Pasture your Beasts bleed them as soon as ever the Leaf begins to fall peg their Ears and Dew-laps with Helebore or Bears-foot a Plant so called drench them with Savin and Rue boyled in strong Ale and give-them a scowring and this will prepare them to resist the pestilential Air and mainly contribute to the preserving them If you find however that any of your Beasts after the afore-named Caution be swelled under the Jaws ogainst the Throat-boul then draw forth its Tongue and open a Vein that lyeth under it an Inch and a half
by it they are on all hands concluded to be creatures of much hardiness but not long Lived they much delight to Earth themselves in a Loamy Ground mixed with Sand so that it is very well binding and no Springs in it to hinder their working or earthing themselves for wet is a great enemy to them and moist Burrows with their Dampness or Mustiness cause the Rot amongst them which soon thins the Warren by sweeping them away in great Numbers though in a Clay mixed with a little Gravel Exempted from such Wet or Dampness they thrive best and are the Largest and Fullest fine short sweet Hay in Winter layed near the mouths of their Holes is a great comfort to them both to preserve them from Diseases by drying up the over much moisture they contract and making them feed the better so Exempted from Sickness The cause of Madness is caused by wind and wet which getting in great quantity into the porous parts of the Body arises by Vapours to the Brain and causes a Frenzy or Madness in the Creature which is known by its tumbling and rowling about when out of the Burrow and particularly tumbling over its Head and bouncing about in an unusual posture and this Kills many of them therefore when this Sign appears apply the following Remedy and the Distemper will cease A Cure for Madness in Coneys TAke Sweet Hay cut it a little but not too short let it be as dry as possibly you can get it mix with it Hare-Thistle an Herb so called and scatter a little fine dry Bran amongst it and lay it near their Burrows if it be in Winter Snowey weather sweep the Ground clean where you lay it or put it into the mouth of the Burrows lightly so as not to stop them up that they may come to it without coming abroad to Expose themselves to the Cold Air and this will restore them from this Distemper A Cure for the Rot in Coneys THe other Disease Incident to these Creatures is the Rot the more dangerous of the two because it sweeps more fatally This comes when it is very Moist and Rainey in the Spring or Autumn for then much water hanging on the Grass in their feeding they suck it in which softening their Flesh with a kind of a Dropsical Watery Humour which also gets between the Skin and the Flesh putrefying the Liver c. and so causes them to dye of the Rot to Remedy this give them Parsley dryed Hay and Hare-Thistle lay warm Litter near their Holes with Boughs over it to shelter themselves in at pleasure against the wet and fogs or moist winds c. and renew it as often as it grows wet or musty and when the Snow lyes on the ground Shovel and sweep it from their Burrows that they may come at the Grass And thus have I briefly shewed you how to manage these profitable Creatures to keep them in good case cause them to Breed well and to be free from the sickness incident to them which cannot but prove profitable to one or other of my Readers though not to all To keep and order Hares in Warrens or Tame them in all respects as the Coney AS for Hares if kept Tame or in Warrens they may be ordered in all respects as the Coney they being much of the same nature and their Diseases the same but seeing many are desirous to find them wild in the Fields for their Sport and advantage of getting them and are Ignorant of their haunts and there forms whereby they lose much labour in a fruitless fearch and are often disappointed I thought in convenient to say something as to this particular a thing desired of me by so many When you goe about to find a Hare that you may not lose your Labour but be more certain in the Event If you attempt to do it go not into the thickest of the Cover but to be more certain beat the Bushey close or Shruby Ground Adjacent For if you should find a Hare in a close Woody Cover you will hardly bring her out to shew you Sport and consequently lose her but if you find her in the Shrubs she will when Started or Chased immediately take to the Champion ground because a Hare naturally delights not in Cover till she is tired and therefore the Champion grounds are the most likely places to find them and Run them down and in such grounds resort to the Goss Brakes low Brambles or Broom and if they afford no such shelter repair to the Stubble at the beginning of Hunting time and about Christmas to the Fallows and in March to the Green Corn and in these places the best Hares haunt and are usually to be found and many times you may find a Form when the Hare is absent or gone abroad a feeding and if you would know whether she haunts it or has left it take these Directions To know the New or Old Form whether Retained by a Hare or left her Shifts c. THis is a main point to be Discovered therefore mark in your search very narrowly the following Directions to know if it be New or Old observe if the form or seat be plain and smooth the Pad before it flat and worn and the Pricks of her feet so New and Plain to be discovered that the Earth appears black or so Newly broken that the Hare cannot be long gone then the Form is new she is not far from it nor will delay long returning unless frighted away by some Accident but the contrary appearing it is old and if you expect any advantage by it you will in all likelyhood lose your labour and another thing is worthy of Remark and that is the Hare has divers Slights and Shifts to avoid pursuit as her Windings and Doublings you must also when she is pursued observe her Leaps and Skips before she Squats and beat the places most likely to give her shelter for being reduced to these hard shifts she is tired come to her last cast and can hold out but a little longer for she never uses them till she finds her strength so failing her that she grows heartless and has but this way to hope avoiding the pursuers To know whether a Coney or Rabit be Old or Young or New or Stale Killed c. THis is a Nice point and many have been deceived in it and therefore having treated of these Creatures in other matters this as very useful will be convenient enough to set down in the close of it If a Coney be old her Claws are very long and rough and long greyish hairs will stand out amongst the wool but young and a right Coney or Rabit it will have a small gristly knot on the out side of the Foot a little above the Joynt the Claws middleing and smooth and no grey hairs appearing pinch the inside of the Belly and it will break tender but if it be old in pinching it will be tough ruckle up If stale
Sluggish the Rest will be Discouraged Loyter and never Work Cheerfully to fill their Combs Secondly Observe the Swarm be Whole and Great which you may know by looking into the Hive or observing great Numbers clustering about the Mouth of it but if this way fail put your Mouth to the Mouth of the Hive and Blow in and if you are Answered by a great Humming Noise then it is a Full. stock but with a Little Faint one then but a Weak Thin stock Thirdly Beware how you Transport them far for the Change of the Air frequently Incommodes them and if you cannot avoid this to Remedy it place the Hives on convenient Stools in pleasant Gardens or scatter sweet smelling and wholsome Herbs and Flowers about their Hives in Removing beware of Josling for that Disorders their Combs and puts them so out of Humour that they will scarcely stay where you place them to carry them in Sheets on Poles cross Mens shoulders is the easiest way the best time to Remove them is in April and let the place you Remove them to be as like that in Scituation you Removed them from as may be and upon a Remove open them not in the Day time that so Resting in the Night they may settle themselves and finding their Hive open the next Morning go the quieter to Work However for two or three Days observe them that finding themselves in a strange Place they take not Wing and leave you for if they go all Out of the Hive it is an Ill sign they are gadding Fourthly In placing your Bees observe it be so that in Winter and Spring the Face of the Hives they are to come out at may stand to the Rising Sun and so order the Matter that in Winter they be not exposed to too much Cold nor in Summer to too much Heat place them above all things in a Wholsome Air where such Plants Herbs and Flowers are Growing near as best agree with them as Time Cassa Rosemary Wild Marjarum Wild Time Saffron bean Flowers Mellilot Poppys Roses c. As for Yew Cornel Sprig-lawrel Cucumbers Goards Elins and all bitter Herbs and Flowers are Enemys to them Fifthly They Thrive better on Rising Ground where the Air is free and open than in close Valleys yet love to be near Springs of purling Waters that are not deep and in such places where they Sip throw in Spray Wood that they may lye above the Water so that if they chance to drop in they may get out again by that help Sixthly Place their Hives in three Ranks standing a Yard one above the other and keep from them as much as may be all hurtful Creatures that Destroy the Bees or Spoil their Honey as Red-brests Toads Wood-peckers Moths Hornets Lizards Swallows Spiders Sparrows butter-flys Snakes Snailes Wasps and the like and so profitable are these little Creatures that if it be a seasonable Spring and Summer their Honey may he taken three times a Year as in some Countrys it is frequently observed viz. The latter end in May the end of July and the beginning of september but to leave them a Winter Supply the best is only to take it in May and August for then they Rest and Live upon part of what they got in Summer and if they Want you must be compelled to Feed them by putting gingerly in little hollow Canes or Kexes shivered like Troughs filled with Honey or sugar and Water Boiled together or they will Perish e'er they can get out to Work again for want of Food you may also put in for their Food bruised Raisons Figgs Currans or any Sweets that are Wholsome in Taste and Scent If the Weather be open after the 10th of March you may let them Abroad then will they Frame New Combs and that done begin to Breed then they Labour hard for their Honey Seventhly If the Hive by reason of the Young Brood be over-charged which is perceived by their Clustering about the Mouth of it and the great Humming Noise within prepare New Hives rubed with sweet herbs and Watch the coming forth of the Young Fry from 8 to 12 in the Morning lest they take Wing and be gone and if they refuse to come forth with the Fume of Galbanum you may Drive the whole stock and if they have two Kings they will settle separate from each other and so Hive each by themselves or if the stock be Decayed you may Incorporate two hives in one if you Kill one of the Master Bees else there will be continual Wars till they Consume one another If at any time you see them draw out to Flight it is but casting up some Dust among them and the Fray will end Ninthly To know when the Combs are full Watch if they Drive out the Drones which is a sign and soon after you will see them Playing about the hive Rejoycing and Neglecting their Work but in no wise take the Combs before full for that Displeases the Bees The Warreners Instructor or a Treatise of Coneys their Ordering to Preserve and Encrease them Diseases and Remedys SInce many times in Coney Warrens many Misfortunes happen to that little Creature so useful to Man I shall in this Useful Book set down what must needs be grateful to such as have the Care of them that their Wool may be good they Breed kindly and abundantly be Fat and preserved from the Diseases Incident to them which generally are but two kinds viz. Rot and Madness To preserve them then in the Frosty winter when the Snow lyes much on the Ground and they cannot well come at the Grass or any Herbs to sustain them provide your self well with the Sprigs of Birch Oke and Hazle to scatter in the Warren for this Bark before the Sap be much gone out of it is the best not only to feed them in some degree but proves Physical and binding to keep them from watry Distempers making them also thrive by giving them an Appetite to such other food as they can get Turnit Tops Peashame with dryed Pease in the pods and sprinkling of Parsley is Exceeding good for them for in the sharpest time of Winter when least is to be got they feed best and the reason is because then the Frost biting the Foggy Grass makes it sweeter and more pleasant to them than at other times besides the sharpness of the Air whets their Appetites In their Increase they are abundant bringing forth their Young once every Month usually Three or Four at a time and sometimes more for as soon as the Doe is Disburthened she presently taketh Buck again and when she has Kindled conceals her Young from the Buck as secretly as she can lest he should destroy them which when they are very Young he is apt to do but so soon as they can run about they are out of that danger I need not tell you what profit their Furs and flesh bring to man every one in a manner knowing there is great advantage