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them on another stoole a goode distance of ; and then to take 

 another newe hive and to rubbe it well with balme, fennell, 

 and creame, as yow doe for a swarme, and sette it on the stoole 

 wheare the bees lye under, and they will assuredly goe up, take 

 likinge to the hive, and abide ; or howsoever, if they shoulde 

 chance to rise againe, it weare but hivinge them in another 

 hive and settinge them in another place, and by this meanes 

 yow might have as good as two good swarmes, and perhapps a 

 pottle, three quartes, or very neare a gallon of honey. 



For Makinge and Orderinge of Honey. 

 Soe soone as you have driven your bees, and placed your 

 catchers on the stooles wheare yow intende they shall stande 

 all night ; then are yow to make as much hast hoame with 

 your honey as yow possibly can, that yow may gette the 

 coambes crushed, and the honey wiauige into bowles, and like- 

 wise the honey strained, before it beginne to waxe colde. Soe 

 soone as yow come into the howse yow are to provide two 

 bowles to wringe the honey into ; yow are alsoe to provide a 

 stande tubbe or barrell, and to sette it ready by yow, and looke 

 howe many hives you take, you are to putte into the tubbe for 

 every hive three gallons of water ; for every hives oifell will 

 serve to sweeten three gallons of water,and to make sufficient 

 and good meade of the same ; then soe soone as you have got- 

 ten all your water putte into your tubbe, yow are to take a 

 paire of pinsers and with them to drawe forth all the spelles, 

 whiles the honey is yett warme ; and ever as yow drawe forth 

 the spelles, yow are to putte them into the tubbe of water ; 

 then are the two women to have each of them a cleane bowle 

 to wringe the honey into, and the man is to stande ready with 

 a winge in his hande, and ever as hee taketh out a coambe, 

 hee is to holde it over the tubl^e of water, and to winge of the 

 bees into the water, and then to give it to one of the maides, 

 whoe is to crush and wringe the coambes well, with both 

 handes, as longe as they will droppe, and then to throwe them 

 alsoe into the tubbe of water ; then when they have wrimge out 

 all the honey after this manner, they are likewise to pulle out 

 the crowne-pinne, and to take out all the honey that remaineth 

 in the crowne of the hive ; and then to provide another greate 

 bowle, and to take a course hempe or harden cloath, which they 

 are to dippe in the tubbe of water, and then to take the honey 

 that is in the other bowles, and straine the same through the 

 course-cloath into the greate bowle ; that beinge done, yow are 

 alsoe to have in readinesse your honey-meisure and potte ready 

 washed and scalded that yow may gette your honey meisured 



