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mile and a halfe from Fcuerfham in Kent, and in fundry other places : in fome countries they be 
•neater and pleafanter : in others fmaller, and of vvorfe talle. 
& The Horfe Cheftnut growcth in ltaly,and in fundry places of the Eaft countries. J Itisnoty 
growing with M 1 .Trade [cant at South Lambeth, f 
& f The Time. 
The blowings or aglets come forth with the leaugs in Aprill ; but the Nuts later, and be not 
ripd till Autumne. 
•4 The Names. 
The Cheftnut tree beares the name of the Nut both in Greeke and Latine : in high-Dutch,SCa 
(Icnbauin,and&aftaml)aum:inl0w-Dutch, v£aftaatb00m.-in French, Cajlaignicr: in Englnh, 
Cheftnut tree. 
* The Nut is called in Greeke, •• in LAtinc,CaJlMeaJoirxsgla»s,Sardi?iiaglans : in high- Dutch • 
&eflm : in low-Dutch, Caftantetl :in Italian,C4/?<*j»e.- in French, Chafldgnt : in Spanifl i,Morones, 
C afian.es : in Englilh, Cheftnut : the greater Nuts be named of the Italians, Mxrrcni : of the French 
men and of diuers bafe Almaines, sMarcns . 
The Horfe Cheftnut is called in Latine, Equina Cxfiancx in Englifh,Horfe Cheftnut, for that 
the people of the Eaft countries do with the fruit thereofeure their horfes of the cough, Chortricfle 
of breath, and fuch like difeafes. 
ThcTemfcraturctindVcrtues. 
Our common Cheftnu ts are very d ry and binding, and be neither hot nor cold, but in a mean be- A 
tvveeneboth : yet haue they in them a certaine windinefle, and by reafon of this,vnlelTe the fhell 
be firft cut, they skip fuddenly with a cracke out of the fire whileft they be rofting. 
Ofallthe Acornes, faith Galen, the Cheftnutsare thechtefeft,and doe onely of all thewilde B 
fruits yeeld to the body commendable nourifhment ; but they (lowly dcfcend,they be hardly con- 
ceded, they make a thicke blond, and ingender winde : they alfo flay the belly, efpecially if they 
be eaten raw. 
Being boiled or rolled they are not of fo hard digeftion, they more eaftly defeend, and are leffe C 
windy, yet they alfo make the body coftiue 
Some affirms, that of raw Cheftnuts dried, and afterwards turned into meale, there is made a I> 
kinde of bread : yet it muft needs be, that this fhould be dry and brittle, hardly conco£led,and ve- 
rie flow in parting thorow the belly ; but this bread may be good againft the laske and bloudy flix. 
An Eleauarie of the mealeof Cheftnuts and hony is very good againft the cough and fpitting E 
of b loud. 
The barke of the Cheftnut tree boiled in wine and drunke, flops the laske, the bloudy flix, and F 
all other iflues of bloud. 
Chap. 92,. Of the 'Beech tree « 
«[[ The Defcription, 
T He Beech is an high tree, with boughes fpreading oftentimes in manner ofa circle, and with 
a thicke body bailing many armes : the barke is fmooth : the timaer is white, hard, and verie 
profitable : the leaues be fmooth, thin, broadband leffer than thofe of the blacke Poplar : the 
catkins or blowings be alfo leffer and fhorter than thofe of the Birch tree, and yellow : the fruit or 
Maft is contained in a huske or cup that is prickly,and rough bridled, yet not fo much as that of 
the Cheftnut : which fruit being taken forth of the ihells or vrehin husks, becoucred with a fofc 
and fmooth skin like in colour and fmoothneffe to the Cheftnuts, but they be much leffer, and of 
another forme, tbatistofay,triangledorthreecornered:thekernell within is fiveet, with a cer- 
taine aftriftion or binding qualitie : the roots be few, and grow not deepe , and little lower than 
vnder the turfe. 
The Place. 
The Beech tree loueth a plaine and open coitntrey, and groweth very plentifully in many For- 
refts and defart places of Suflex, Kent, and fundry other countries. 
■f The Time. 
The Beech fioureth in Aprill and May, and the fruit is ripe in September, at what time the 
Deeredoeate the fame very greedily, as greatly delighting therein i which hath caufed forrefters 
and huntfmen to call it Buck-maft. 
*[ The 
wvy 
