The Preface. 
AW, although it be nc’re fo feasible, or fobs 
efir dy as might be injtancedin feveralpoints 
J £ ncu ^ turt V but by degrees have beenintro- 
T : af7C f n0VO ^ ecomc generally praBiced^ 
n .un i>y them were once Jlightedand defpifed: 
Mere being no argument Jo prevalent with them 
* ” or tLlt to be talked of , ; unlefs de- 
™ 0 J ! J l f‘* t ed by plain Experience , which in this 
> au hope will be done to their JatisfaBion. 
^ owev^r, they need no better Argument to con- 
vwee them of the prof is that arife from this 
fr* °f husbandry, than that many places m 
HerefordQiire, Glouccfterfhire, Worcefter- 
m e,c >c. are highly improved by this very Me- 
thod ’ thc C 'der there made being in treat 
quantities annually earned to London, and 
Jevt ral other places of this Kingdom , and fold 
a wrj/ jgh rate j and vahttd above the 
inesoj trance, partly front the excellency of 
it in it Jelf and partly from the alteration , for 
the worfe that French Wines J'ufer by their ex- 
f or ation, and from the fophijlications and a- 
dulter at io„s they receive from thofe that trade 
n them ; which by the ill efdts of the latter , 
ppofec to the virtues and pre-excellency ofthe 
former , in all probability will fo fir encreafe 
I"/"? 0 *? thc R e P“ Ution of Cider, that it 
i no on h continue the price and value of it , 
rather enhanfeif as the Planters and Ci- 
E 3 derijts 
