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makes it evident that the fame thing will hold in Wine which 

 doth in Cider •-, but the great difficulty is (if I be rightly infor- 

 med) that they ufe to let the fVine begin to ferment in the Vat be- 

 fore they put it fnto the Hogpeads or other Fejfels ; and thus they 

 do, that the Husks and other Filth (which in the way they ufe, muft 

 neceOarily be mingled with the Wine) may rife in a skum at the 

 top, and ^o be taken off : Now if they pleafe, as fbon as it is 

 preffedy to pafs the Wine through ajirainer , without expefting 

 any fuch purgation, and then ufe the fame Method formerly pre- 

 fcribed for Cider, I do not doubt but the grofs part of the Lee of 

 Wines, being thus taken away, there will yet be enough left to 

 give it zfermentation in the bottles, or fecond vejfel, where it fhall 

 be left to ftand, in cafe you have not bottles enough to put up ^\ 

 the Wine from which you have thus taken away the gro^ Lee. 



This Wine I know not whether it will laft fb long as the other 

 ufed in^the ordinary way, or not 5 but this I confidently believe, 

 it will not be fb harfh as the fame would have been if it had been 

 ufed in the ordinary way ; and the pleafantnefs of Tafle, which is 

 not unwholfbme, is the chief thing which I prefer both in Wine 

 and Cider. 



Now for the Hard-apple-cider, that it will receive an improve- 

 ment by this way of ordering, hath been long my opinion 5 but 

 this year an accident happened, which made it evident that I was 

 not mifl:aken in this conjedlrure. For there was a Gentleman of 

 Herefordfhire, this lafl Autumn, that by accident had not provided 

 C««yi^enough for the Cider he had made 5 and having fix or feven 

 Hogjheads o£ Cider for which he had no Casl^, hefentto Worce- 

 Jier, Glocejier, and even to Brifiol, to buy fome, but all in vain 3 

 and when his fervants returned the Cider that wanted Cask^ had 

 been fbme five days in the Vat uncovered 5 and the Gentleman he- 

 ing then difpatching a ^^r^ae for London whh Cider, and having 

 neer hand a conveniency of getting Gla^-hottles, refblved to put 

 fbme of it into bottles 5 did fo, and filled feven or eight Hampert 

 with the clearefl of this Cider in the Vat, which had then never 

 wrought,nor been put into any other Vejfel but the Vat , the Barque 

 in which his Cider came had a tedious pafTage ■, that is, it was at 

 leafl feven weeks before it came to London, and in that time moft 

 of his Cider in Cask, had wrought fb much that it was much har- 

 der then it would have been if it had according to the ordinary 

 way lain ftill in the Country, in the place where it was firft made 

 and put up, and confequently, wrought but once. 



But the other, which was in Bottles, and efcaped the breaking, 

 that is,by accident,had lefs of the Lee in it then other bottles had,or 

 was not fo hard flopped, but either before there was force enough 

 ■ from t\\Q fermentation to break the bottle , or that the Cork gave 

 way a little, and fothe ^ir got out 5 or that the bottles weue not 

 originally well corked , was excellent good, beyond any Cider 

 that I had tafled out o£ Herefordfiire -^ fo that from thh Experi- 

 ence I dare confidently fay, that the ufing Hard-apple-cider after 

 the former Method, prefcribed for Pepin-cider, will make it re- 



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