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A06304	The distiller of London Compiled and set forth by the speciall licence and command of the Kings most excellent Majesty: for the sole use of the Company of Distillers of London. And by them to bee duly observed and practized.	Company of Distillers of London.; Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.; Cademan, Thomas, Sir, 1590?-1651.	1639 (1639)	STC 16777; ESTC S113984	17,755	78

Novemb. 16. 1639. Imprimatur THO. WYKES THE DISTILLER OF LONDON Compiled and set forth by the speciall Licence and Command of the Kings most Excellent Majesty For the sole use of the Company of DISTILLERS of London And by them to bee duly observed and practized LONDON Printed by RICHARD BISHOP MDCXXXIX TO The Company of DISTILLERS OF LONDON WHereas our Soveraigne Lord the Kings most Excellent Maiesty hath been gratiously pleased by His Royall Letters Patents under the Great Seale of England To Incorporate together vvith us the Distillers c. in and about London into one intire body politique and Company of Distillers of London And amongst divers powers and immunities unto us and our successours by the said Letters Patents granted His Maiesty hath therein given speciall command That a Book of Rules and Directions concerning Distillation of Strong-waters c. and making Vinegars c. should be compiled and by us approved and allowed as by the sayd Letters Patents or Charter of Incorporation more at large doth appeare In obedience to his Highnesse sayd Commands this present Book hath been composed entituled THE DISTILLER OF LONDON VVhich Book and the Rules and Directions therein contayned wee have examined and corrected and doe well approve and allow of the same and every part thereof signifying and declaring to the whole Company of Distillers and their successours and whomsoever else the same may concern That the Rules and Directions therein contayned are good and warrantable and may safely be followed and practised by all the members of this Company and their successours in preparing composing distilling and making the severall kinds and sorts of wares therein nominated and expressed and others of like nature and these severall kinds and sorts of wares and merchantdizes being accordingly duly ordered and made cannot be otherwise than good sound and warrantably merchantable and such as may very well serve to and for most uses and occasions whereunto any of those kinds and sorts of wares and commodities are or may bee required aswell for spending within any of His Maiesties Realmes Dominions and Plantations c. as for victualling of Ships for any voyage or undertaking whatsoever or wheresoever and for transportation by way of merchandise into any the parts beyond the Seas in the usuall way of commerce and trade In confirmation of the reallity hereof we have hereunto subscribed our Names THEODORUS de MAYERNE Regiarum Majestatum Medicus primarius THOMAS CADEMAN Medicus Regineus DROP AS RAINE DISTILL AS DEWE Deu 32.2 THE DISCRIPTION Azure a Fesse wavie Argent between a Sunne drawing up a Cloud distilling Drops of Raine proper And a Distillatory double armed Or. with two Wormes and bolt receavers Argent the Creast on an helme mantled Gules dubled argent And a Torce Argent and Azure A Barley garbe wreathed about with a Vine branch bearing Grapes all proper Supporters A Russe and an Indian savage in their proper habits with the Motto in an Escroll c. To the Society and Company of DISTILLERS OF LONDON And to every particular Member of the same The Present MASTER FOUNDER VVardens Assistants of that Company wish increase of Knowledge and Endlesse Happinesse IT hath been observed in all ages that the most excellent of Humane Arts that ever were invented by the ingenuity of Men of the most infallible judgements that even those Arts have not retained their first perfection longer than they have been confined within the limits of their Authors or like Artists practice For no sooner have they been divulged abroad amongst the inconsiderate multitude and so become the subject of their imployments but those Arts have been thereby exposed to eminent danger of being corrupted through blind Ignorance or wilfull Error Among the rest as a hereditary evill incident to all Arts it may as truely be said of this Art and Mystery the subject of our discourse for no sooner was the practice thereof taken up as the last refuge of men inexpert and of decayed fortunes who have in all times been ushered in and instructed by such as themselves But forthwith it fell extreamely short of its former excellent esteem and true perfection and by degrees is grown so deformed that Artists either doe not or rather are ashamed to acknowledge it to be the same thing so strangely is it transformed But our intentions are not to obraid the ignorance or folly of any but rather endeavour the information direction of such of our members as wanting the true knowledge of this Art have runne into errours and absordities in their practices And for our more orderly proceeding in that behalfe have first made diligent search to discover and finde out the causes of these confused disorders both in the trade and amongst the practitioners And finde them principally to arise from want of power to regulate the true professours and meanes to suppresse or at least stop the current of the disorderly and inordinate intrusion of Interlopers into the practice of this Art who by their prepostrous wayes of working and frequent use of base and unsound materialls have brought scandall not onely upon the works of this Art the wares but also on the Art and Artists themselves For suppression and future prevention of such delinquents and their erronious wayes and releife and reformation of the present DISTILLERS and their lawfull successours His Majesty hath been graciously pleased to supply us with the meanes to performe both By Incorporating us into one intire body politick and granting us and our successours powers and immunities tending to reformation and good government for time to come And being thus enabled by his Majesties favour and in obedience also to his Highnesse Royall Commands in the said Letters Patents VVe have prepared and made ready these Rules and Directions following aptly fitted and composed for the imitation and practice of all the members of this Company and their successours And having therein rejected and utterly forbidden the use of base unsound materialls and ingredients and taken away the abusive use or misimployment of those that are sound and warrantable Jt now remaines that you together with us doe henceforth yeeld all ready conformity to these instructions and directions and rightly and duly put the same in practice And as we with constant resolutions have hitherto undergone the care and trouble of procuring things tending to reformation and settled government of the Company so now we expect as justly we may that you will second us cheerefully with your best abilities to perfect and establish this good work Jn this book wee have purposely incisted principally on the most inferiour and ordinary sorts of wares such as are most usually required for trade and commerce forraigne and domistick And therein have applyed our selves to accommodate all sorts of people that shall have occasion to use our wares And here it is not amisse by way of admonition to give a touch of what you are by our Charter and Ordinances strictly required and enjoyned to