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 hear or fee fuch difcourfes,tend- 

 ing to perfwade the deftroying 

 fo good and faithful fervants as 

 the Bees are : For their pre- 

 servation, in this new way, and 

 for the Confirmation thereof 

 I fhall add , befideS my own 

 experience^ that it is no new 

 Humm nor notion without 

 good ground 3 But that it was 

 the opinion and Judgement of 

 many famous learned and wife 

 men of old, and latey fome 

 whereof I fhall InftanceasO/^a/ 

 Magnus $ Read in his Hiftory 

 of Goths and Vandals in Eng- 

 lifi, Book fi. Chap. 3. Prfg.340. 

 who alfo makes mention of an 

 Italian who write'th, that in the 

 City of ^/^e/^there was a drift 

 and fevere Law againft thofe 

 who fhould deftroy a Swarm of 

 Bees$ unlefs they had a juft 

 eaufe,and could make it appear, 

 when called to account for it: 



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