( ; 
clear before, wherefore confidering that this Experiment 
might be ferviceable in the demonftrating of Saoguifi- 
cation : I humbly offer it to your more refined Judg- 
ment, and am 
In the Box is a bottle of the Spirit, you may put 
two parts of the Spirit to one of Spirit of Sal Armo^ 
mack, and ftiakeWie Glafs or Bostie, and it will be 
fed in a Moment, tho' the more the Giafs is Ihakeo 
the deeper or blacker red it wil! be. I fuppofe there is 
enough in the Glafs for you to Experiment, and to 
Ihew to the Virtuofos I made the Spirit by Difiil- 
ling 2, or 3 Pound of Benzoin with a little fand in a Re- 
tort, ad Siccitatem^ and put the Oil, Spirit, and Flow- 
ers altogether into a Paper Filtre, and the Spirit which 
came firlt thro' is that which I have Tent. 
The Experiment alovementioned was tried hefore the 
Royal Society, and fucceeded as alove related, hut the 
Circumflances mujl he diligently attended^ or elfe it will 
not Jucceed. 
VIII. A Note Communicated by Mr. Hill, con- 
jirming the great Age Henry Jenkins^^e^o 
tioned No 22 p. 265. thefe Tranf anions » 
IN the Kings Remembrancers OfEce in the Exchequer, 
is a record of a depofuion in a caufe by Engiifli Bills 
between Ant, Clark ^nd Smirkfon^ taken April 1665', at 
^Kettering in Torkjhire^ wh^x^ Henry Jenkins oi Ellerton 
upon Swale Labourer Aged 157 Years was produced 
and depoled as a Witnefs. Divers v ery ancient Witnefles 
fwore him to be a very Old Man when they firft knew 
himo An 
