iSt The Statural Hi jlory 



Ingeniofas apes, dies notlefque Ceram ad Dei honorem, & dukiflua 

 mella confident cs, ad juamisr unherforum Chriftianorum commodita- 

 tern. And this I the rather perfwade, becaufe by the new dif- 

 covery of that excellent method of Bee-houfes and Colonies, they 

 are freed from moft, if not all the hazards, charge, and trouble 

 that heretofore attended them : Not to mention the advantage 

 and profit accrewing by them, which has always been judged fo 

 confiderable, that there have been feveral Trails written and 

 publifli'd full of experiments, directions, and methods to be ufed 

 in the menage of thefe Infecls. 



24. But none yet extant that I know of comparable to what 

 are pra&ifed by John Lad of Over-Wort on, and William Tayler of 

 Warkworth, who though a Nortbampton-fiire Man, has Apifaclo- 

 ries'm this County, who profefs (as I am informed by the Reve- 

 rend Mr. Clark Re&or of Dreyton near Banbury) 1 . That they 

 can take [warms out of any slockthat'is able, and negle&s to /warm, 

 without any prejudice to the flock 2. That they can take hony 

 out of a #w:4without that hazard to the Bees, which (they fay) 

 the way propofed by the Author of the Colonies is fubjecl: too. 



3. That they can fecure any flock from the invafion of Robbers. 



4. That they can fo order an old flock.-, that the Bees fhall ga- 

 ther pure Virgin hony. 5. If a slock be in low condition, they 

 can preferve and recruit it, fo as it fhall do well. 6. They can 

 take away a Queen where there is more than one in a hive, and 

 place her in a Jlock where the Queen is dead, or otherwife want- 

 ing, and by that means keep the fubjecls together, which would 

 clfe difperfe. 7. If a Queen wants fubjecls, they can draw out 

 of feveral flocks fupplies in what number they pleafe, that fhall 

 fettle under her government. And thefe operations they com- 

 monly practice, which becaufe profitable to them, they are un- 

 willing fhould be made too common, which yet they are fo in- 

 genious as not to deny to communicate to fit perfons upon rea- 

 fonable terms. 



25. Of other flying Infecls, I have minded only the Mufcdt a- 

 quaticje, fuch as are generated in the waters, and come of Cad- 

 worms, and therefore called by Johnslon, Phryganides z , quod e 

 Phryganio Monfeti a (the Caddis of the EngliftS) ortum habeant : 



1 Hift. N.-t . delnfeclis, lib. I. tit. 2- cap. 2. art. 2- puncl. 4. * hijctt- five Min. An-Theat. lap. 12. d* 

 Mufcarum ufu. 



Nor 



