Sir TAVL ^£ I L FS fecond Paper. 



Mj Lord, 



)He Paper which by the Command of the Rojial Society 

 I delivered in the laft year, concerning the order- 

 ing of Cider, I have by this years experience found 

 defedivein one particular, of which I think fit by 

 this to give you notice, which is thus : Whereas in 

 the former Paper I mention, that after the Fepn-cider hath ftood 

 24 hours in the Vat, it might be drawn off into pailes, and (o 

 put into the Veflel 5 and that having flood a fecond 24 hours in 

 that Veflel, it might be drawn into another Veflel, in which it 

 might ftand till it were fit to Bottle ; for the particulars of all 

 which proceeding I refer to the former Paper 5 and fhall now on- 

 ly mention. That this laft year we were fain to draw it off into 

 feveral Vefiels, not only as is there direfted, twice, butmoflof 

 onv Cider five, and Comejix times ; and not only fo, but we were 

 after all this fain to precipitate the Lee by fbme of thofe ways 

 mentioned by D' fVil/fs in the 7th Chap, of his Treatife De fer- 

 mentatione. Now though this be more of trouble then the Me- 

 thod by me formerly mentioned 5 yet it doth not in the leafl de- 

 flroy that Hypothecs which in the former Difcourfe I laid down^ 

 ( viz. ) That it was the leaving too much of the Lee with the 

 Cider, whichupon the change of air, fet it into anew /erzwe»*^- 

 tion, and confequently made it lofe the fweetnefs ^ for this change 

 by the indifpolition of the Lee to fettle this year more theri 

 others, hath not hindred the goodnefs of the Cider 5 but that 

 when it was at laft maftered, and the C/^/er bottled in a fit temper^ 

 it was never more pleafant and quick then this year : but I find 

 that this year our Cider of Summer-Apples is already turned 

 Ibwre, athoughit be now but the firft of January^ and the lafl 

 year it kept very well till the beginning of March j which makes 

 me fear that our Pepin-cider will not Keep till this time twelve 

 moneth, as our Pepin-cider of the laft year doth till this day, and 

 ftill retains its original pleafantnefs without the leaft turn towards 

 fowrenefs. 



And I am very confident, the difference of time and trouble, 

 which this year we found in getting the Cider to fine and be in a 

 condition to Bottle, was only the effcft of a very bad and wet 

 Summer, which made the Fruit not ripen kindly j and to make 

 it yet worfe, we had juft at the time when we made our Cider, 

 this year, extream wet and windy weather, which (added to the 

 unkindlinefs of the Fruit) was the whole caufe of this alteration : 

 And however my Hypothefu as yet remains firm, for if by taking 

 any part of the Lee from the Cider you can preferve it in its 

 original fweetnefs, it is not at all material whether it be always to 

 be done by twice drawing off from the Lee, or that it muft fome- 



times 



