Of mating Cider. 
of them, which otherwife might have 
been very bad. 
Thus when your Fruit is duly Ripe, ga¬ 
thered, and prelerved, it is ready for the 
Mill. 
SECT. II. 
Of Grinding of Apples. 
One great impediment in the improve- 
ing of this moft excellent drink, hath been 
the want of a convenient way of grinding 
or bruifing the Fruit. It having been the 
ufage or cuftome in moft places of En¬ 
gland, where but fmall quantities of this 
Liquor hath been made, for the Operators 
to beat their Fruit ina Trough of Wood or 
iStone, with Beaters like unto Wooden 
Peftles, with long handles. By which means 
three or four Servants or Labourers might 
in a days time beat twenty or thirty 
Bufhelsof Apples: fomepart thereof into 
a Jelly, being often under the Beaters, 
whilft other part of the Fruit by itsflippe- 
rinefs efcapes the Beaters; much of it alfo 
by dalhing being wafted: yet by this means 
