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be converted to bear the riclieft burthens of «orn, hay, and graft. 
3. His Clofet was publiQit in two parts,bound together,>4f% 165 1. The firjt 
part contains Preferves, Candying, Paftes, Banqueting conceits, Cordial wa- 
ters,Conrerves,Medi<:ins and Salves. The fecond part has more of the fame, 
or the like, as Prererves,Conrerves,Candying,Secrets in diftillation,Coolcery 
and Hufwifry,Swe€t powders,Ointn:ients.Further,our Author,having enlar- 
ged noble tables, furnifn't necelTaries for multitudes of the moft indigent; 
enriched husbandnfien, found good employments for younger and lincking 
families^allilkd and encouraged ingenuous Arts and honeft Trades,invented 
many new, and revived unregarded or too much negledled accommodati- 
ons,and having taught,how the'Sea-waters and Sea-fand may be made a fer- 
tililifjg compoltjand the very Earth a relieving fusUhe thought it beft to in- 
gratiate with Ladies, to do many of the good offices of charity, to heal the 
lickjlame^maimed and wounded, who by poverty were unable to difchargc 
Apothecaries bills, Phyfitians and Chirurgions and to impart the elegant 
hufwifryfor delicacies,treats,andcollations.Hc taught them,howto convert 
the wholcfom plants .and bloffoms of their gardens and common helds,hiils 
and paftures,and the fruit of bu(hcs,fhrubsand hedgcs,and many of our taller 
trees, to be found food and rich wines i even to challenge the blood of the- 
grape i> and under the favour and with the alTiftance of the Sttgar^cane^ and 
fbmetimes with the help of the Alembick^to carry the general applaufe^and 
to triumph in vicSory^And what had now become of our Sugar-plantations^ 
if he had not fb happily begun when he did, to ihew us the excdlcncies and 
inhnitufes of Sugar. And as to his Cookery fiOLVMELL A ^v^ho^pdk^ the - 
moll he could againft it,yet himfelf infrrudls, How to order Wine^and other 
liquors,pickles.§amons,and other food /or the beft 5 and marmalades,quide- 
nies,and confcrves^moft agreeable for the EraprefTts of thofe days, when the 
Bee fupplied the want of Sugar-canes. And good Cookery is asancient,as the 
reputation of the moll: famous Phyfitians,a noble part of their profellion.Em- 
perours and Popes had always learned Phyfitians for Mafter-cooks.And our 
Author was followed with the Cabinets and Clofets of both Illuftrious and 
Learned Perfons:The Countefs of JrundePs Clofet,the Countcfsof iCf;i^*s, 
Sr. 1 head. MayerH''s^ Sr./0;/.P/g^ys,the Queen-like Cabiiiet,theacconrrpli£h*t 
Cook,the French Cook,and Rabijha^s Body of Cookery : Thefe two lad: re- 
vifed and perfected for the year And for fure and moderat Cookery, 
Muffets Improvement of Health, reprinted 1^65, and,as Dr. 'Sennet thinks, 
worth all that wrote before him.not excepting Flatina^ApiciusgLnd Alexan- 
drtnm. At this ddiy ^Barbados and Jamaica are the better for Ligonr skill in 
Cookery.And,if the Sturgeon o^Nerv England be the right Sturgeon,and fo 
chofen and ordered, as Mi^et dirc^s, it may be a fervice fas of old ) for an 
Imperial Table. And all Commanders and Purfcrs at Sea arc concera'd for 
good marinal pickles, &c, 
EiTdtAn Mumh Pa* » j6. l.io t other re^i*ifits. p,257, l.iy» uftrvt^Ht ^ffrttuice/hifs, 
Errar.in this '2^mh. ijj. Pag.Jly. 1 lo. r.receivt delay, p.i^o. 1. 24. t.dehite. 
I ondon^^rxviizdi for Jdhn M^^r^j/^^Printer to the Koyal Society, i^-j^. 
