62 RURAL ECONOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



fennell, and halfe a nieate dishe full of the freshest and sweetest 

 creanie that you can gette, and soe to dippe the fenneU and 

 baJme in the creanie, and to rubbe tlie hive well, before you 

 putte in either the crowne-pinne or the spelles : then are yow 

 to make the crowne-pinne very rownde and fitte for the crowne 

 of the hive, that it may goe in very straite and hard ; and by 

 this meanes it ^vill keep both wette from goinge into the hive, 

 and the honey from runninge out, when you take the hive and 

 sette it on the cro%vne ; you are likewise to make the lower 

 ende of the cro\vne-pinne small and sharpe, and to have regard 

 that it come allwayes somethinge lower downe then the lower 

 spelles ; then when the crowne-pinne and spelles are all putte 

 in, yow are to rubbe them well with the balme and fennell, as 

 you did the hive : then are yow to have in readinesse a sieve, 

 a sheete, a pinne to sette open the mouth of the hive, and three 

 or fower stalkes of muggei-warte to lye on the bough or place 

 wheare the bees light ; then are yow, first of all, to gette the 

 grasse mowne away from the place wheare the bees hange ; 

 then are yow to lay do^vne your sieve with the bottome up- 

 wardes ; then are yow to cast the sheete over the sieve and to 

 drawe it smooth ; then are yow to lay downe the pinne on the 

 ridge of the sieve whear yow intende to make the mouth of 

 your hive, then is one to take the hive and holde it just under 

 and close to the bees, and another to shake the bough, that the 

 bees may fall into the hive ; then are yow to sette downe the 

 hive on the sieve, leavinge an open smoute for them to goe in 

 just towards the Sovith, and to cover the backside of the hive 

 with the sheete, which you are to gather up and throwe over, 

 on all sides but onely wheare you make the smoute ; then are 

 yow presently to take the wormewood and lay it on the jilace 

 wheare the bees hunge, and likewise on all boughes neare to 

 the place wheare they lighted ; and tliat will bee a meanes 

 to make them goe well up into tlie the hive. Yow are not 

 to remove the muggerwarte for the space of fower dayes, for 

 if yow doe it will bee a meanes to make them rise againe, 

 although tliey perhapps light not on the same place. Then 

 after that they are well hived yow are to lette them stande till 

 after sunsette, in that manner before yow remoove them to the 

 place wheare yow {vould hare fhcrii]. Many will (after that 

 they have rubbed theire hives witli balme, fennell and eroame) 

 cast and sprinkle in wheate tiovver, alledginge that it is a 

 meanes to clagge the bees, and to make them abide better in 

 the hive ; but that is founde to doe more liarme then good, for 

 it causetii the waxe to murle, and is a meanes that the bees 

 cannot give theire waxe soe goode holde to the hive and spelles ; 



