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A97281	The Britannian magazine: or, A new art of making above twenty sorts of English wines viz, of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, sloes, damasins, quinces, figgs, goosberries, mulberries, currens, blackberries, elderberries, roses, carnations, cowslips, scurvy-grass, mint, and balm, &c. More pleasant and agreeable to the English constitution than those of France. With the way of making brandy and other spirits: as likewise how to make artificial clarets, rhenish, &c. The second edition. To which is added, the foundation of the art of distillation: or the true and genuine way of making malt into low-wines, proof-spirits, and brandy-wines, compliant to the late act of Parliament concerning distillation. By W.Y. M.D.	Y-Worth, W. (William)	1694 (1694)	Wing Y214; ESTC R230793	82,523	252

an Impostumated Seed and decayed Body from whence in the act of another Generation it stamps its Ideas or its Matrix from hence hereditary Diseases and the cause of so many weak and imperfect Children which also in process of time produce the same effects and so cause such other new complicate Diseases such as become the amaze and astonishment of Physitians for 't is not only the Diseases varying and divers symptoms thereof appearing but also some new ones are commonly yearly produc'd vastly different from the other And this is observ'd and for a truth generally agreed upon by most of the Learned and Curious observing Physitians that I have met with in my European Travels And indeed the craziness and imperfectness of Bodies in this our Age are much to be pittied and lamented for let the Physitian come where he will he can seldom fail of discrning some Symptoms and evil Effects thereof and 't is much to be fear'd that the Intemperance of this Age will cause such evil Fermentations as to produce yet worse Diseases which I pray God the Inhabitants may prevent by timely Repentance for I dread the soreness of the Judgment c. From what hath been said 't is easie to be conceiv'd that Intemperance hath been as a Procatarctick Cause of many Diseases staining the Spirits corrupting the Humors and many times the principal Vessels causing similar organick and common Diseases For we say that one original Cause may in different Bodies or Constitutions produce different Effects and the more different symptoms according as it hath its situation or power to assault the Synteresis of Nature We shall therefore state another Aphorism viz. That the Spirit being the first admitter of disseasy Idea's those also must be Spiritual and carry with them their own Seed and forming Power or else no specification of a disease could be made Now this being so we are to consider what those diversity of Forms are that produce diversity of Diseases For we see that in Epidemick diseases which thô generally proceed from corrupted venoms yet each of them cause different Characters on the Body The Measles one the Small Pox another the Swine Pox another the Spotted Fever another and the Plague another For that hath the most raging power or violent burning painful Blains Carbuncles or Bubo's as a test of Rage changing the same in and with the solid parts to the blackness of a Coal or stinking Pus c. Now by all of these the Life is eminently threatned according as the Form hath power immediately to work upon and prevail against the light of Nature This diversity of diseasie Idea's may not seem difficult to be conceived if we but consider that the general matter of all things was originally one and that the diversity of Species came in the World by and from the character and stamp of Form in the Animal Mineral and Vegetable Kingdom in all the kinds thereunto belonging For as the Apostle saith every Body hath its own Seed and every Seed it s own Body In the vegetable Kingdom the Body is Salt the Form Sulphur or Oil which are discernably different in Tast and Smell one from another which whilst the Texture remained had power to retain its Form in multiplication of its kind through the power of the universal Spirit In the Mineral Kingdom the Body is Mercury but that which gives the various Forms is Sulphur which through the Medium of the Universal grow and are multiplied In the Animal Kingdom the Body is Flesh but the Form is that which makes the diversity according as 't is pure purer or most pure the most pure is Man being animated with the Divine Light the Pure is Fish and Foul and the less Pure is Flesh in its divers and brutish kinds yet all live increase and multiply through the Medium of the Universal Spirit Moreover Man being a Microcosme an Epitomy of all Forms a Compendium of all Powers and System of Superior and Inferior Beings must doubtless be acted upon by all Forms For as Legions of Angelical Spirits are for ministring Comfort to Man by the Rays of Light so on the other hand Are there Legions of Diabolical ones stirring up their Instruments to dart and poison him with the black cloud of Leath Therefore we say that as the Spirit of Man is acted upon by the divers diseasie I dea's yet the Primary Matrix of Diseases one viz. a moist mercurial poisonous Air which we call the Anatomia Essata whose existence is in all the urinous Spirits in the Body and is fed by the same in which the different Idea's Act and Form several Species by the Medium of the Spirit in the little World even as 't is in the Spirit of the great World Wherefore we say that all kind or species of Diseases are produced by the Spiritual Action of the dismal Form and according to the nature of the Humor acted upon or of the Vessel Organ or Passage that 't is incorporated in and as 't is nearer or more remote situated to the Archaius For we see that in the Itch and Scabs the Blood is corrupted and infected as also in the Scurvy and Scrofulous Humors yet each of these are considerably different one from another and all different from the former which still demonstrate diversity of Forms in the specification of Diseases And again in the French Pox which having its rise from complicate Vapors produceth in like manner complicate Symptoms which have some or other resemblance of various sort of Diseases Now if the Form is of a Saturnal Nature dull and languid in Motion from thence Hypocondriack Melancholy and inveterate Obstructions hard to be removed Now the further operation of these sulphurous Idea's or black Clouds will be more fully shewn in my Spagirick Philosophy asserted where the Original of Diseases is more fully demonstrated These things being rightly known and consider'd we may be able to make proper Indications of Diseases whether produced simply from one Cause or compounded with different Forms whence proceed rebellious and complicate Diseases Ex. Gr. The corruption of the Grand Itch in one uniting in Coitu with the acid or muriatick Partiticles in another produceth or bringeth forth a venemous Vapour which may prove as a Progenitor to the Pox and especially when 't is heighten'd by a volatile Acidity in a second Action The manner of which ought truly to be known And again when the Scurvy after the same manner unnites with the grand Pox it may cause such a violent fermentation in the blood as to produce a Feaver some of which I have known so violent that death hath immediately ensued These and many more of the like nature produce such complicate Diseases as have before been touch'd at so that the most learned of Physitians at the first sight by the Diagnosticks and Aetiologicks are put to an onset how rightly to give their Prognosticks which we shall endeavour to unfold according

and decay'd ones or with the after running of Low Wines warmed and put into a cover'd Hogshead and ferment with Stum a pint to every Galson or for want of that Barme they being truly fermented draw off the Liquor and let the Dreggs be put in a Canvas Bag to press out all the moisture which some perform before they are fermented but however being ready they may be Distill'd as long as strength will come which after 6 or 7 days may be rectified to proof Spirit Observe that Stum which is the Flowers of Wine fermented kept in strong Vessels with Iron Hoops will make an excellent fermentation It is to be observed that from low Wines small Wines and Lees Brandys are made in France and Germany through Fermentation I cannot omit one thing which is too too much practised by the common Distillers in order to make their Spirits seem strong hot and fiery in the Mouth which to accomplish they add in the Distillation a pound or two of Spanish Grains which are sold at the Druggists and these perform their desire but this is little advantageous to the Spirit otherwise than to make it fiery in the Mouth Now these are the subject matters from which low Wines have been drawn hitherto but now the Constitution of Distillation is alter'd and reduced to three material Pillars viz. Well-brew'd Beer without any addition Syder and Perry to which and in which may be included all those Wines made and prepared from any of the growths of England because these have a greater adherence to and more proper for Medicinal use and therefore presented to Physitians Apothecaries and others which being made use will answer their desired end Now I say out of such growths the Customs may be well paid according to the Tenors of the said Act and the French Manufacturage may be considerably detrimented if that Distillation were but rightly encouraged because now all are free or as many as please to labour therein as may be seen by the conclusion of the said Act. Provided also and be it Enacted that all Charters and Letters-Patents already made or hereafter to be made or granted for the sole making of Brandy Spirits 〈◊〉 Strongwaters from Corn or any other sort or in any manner whatsoever as a new Invention or whereby the power and liberty given by this Act to all persons for the Distilling and making Brandy Spirits or Strong-waters from Corn shall be in any manner restrained shall be and are hereby declared and adjudged to be void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever CHAP. VI. Treats concerning English Spirits and Aqua-vitae being made according to the said Act from whence 't is easy to prepare good and wholsome Brandy little inferior to that of France with some considerations of the usefullness of erecting a Brandy Manufacturage here in England c. I Say then good and wholsome Beer being brew'd according to the said Act or from Cyder Perry or from the Wines of the English growths may be made from all and every one of these good wholsome and vendible Wares as low Wines proof Spirits and Aqua-vitae and artificial Brandy as we have often made mention of in this Treatise I say that I would have none think it strange or difficult to perform this from well brew'd Beer seeing we are able to bereave the strongest Vegetable Concrets many ways of its external Sulphur so that ●t shall only retain the taste and quallity of the Vita media and then it is not discernable from others and a proper Sulphur being introduced will perform the same all one as Rhenish Wine is converted into Muscodell by the Scartea to this agrees that profound Glauber where he saith that if you 'l make Corn Spirits into Brandy-Wine in a rellish like that made from Lees of Wine then you must rectify it upon the Lees of Wine for this way by the Oyl of Wine which is plentiful amongst the Lees the end is obtained and may in all things be used instead of that But now we have not in England the advantage o● Wine Lees as they have in Germany France and on the Rhine and Prohibition being made with France that which we have will be soon spent so that great business of Art is to perform this by the growths and products of England I say then that we know a way very advantageous in the sweeting of Spirits both in the action of Fermentation and Distillation to propose a middle way without any infusion or distillation of any of the Vinor twiggs to produce an artificial Brand 〈◊〉 wine in England and from its own growth so good and as vendible as that of France and so near in taste that none but the most acute pallates can discern the difference and this we are able to give publick demonstration of The way to perform it is in general thus The low Wine being made you are to bereave it of its gross Sulphur which is very easily done then its strong smell and taste will be lost as to the Specificated and Domineering qualities thereof this may be perform'd even on Rum which is the strongest in smell and taste of any other Vinor Spirit drawn from any of the Vegetable Concrets and then a middle nature must be introduced naturalizating it to that of Brandy we say then that Caparaticks and Signature thereof belongs to Venus and so do Vitriolicks but the Christals of Tartar and Alkalizates belong to the Sun to which Venus is near a kin for Venus is found to better the Tincture of Sol to which the Vine belongs now Parley and Malt belongs to Jupiter which must be warm'd by the friendly rays of Venus to be impregnated with the Idea's of Sol and what shall we say of Wheat seeing it is the staff of Man's Life whose Oyl hath a principal signature with the Vine having its sweet and friendly quallities from Jupiter its generating power from Venus and its strength from Sol and by its Lunar Milk the Chyle is strengthned from whence the Mercurial life proceeds But oh oh where are you got methinks the Man and the Mare is fled up in the Air and there to seek their Nests But however if so the Sun is there rarifying the same and giving forth of its solar Virtue to the lunar Matrix which is conveyed through the Air unto beings we say then that he who knows the Airy Life of beings and how to concatinate the pure Effluviums thereof so as to make it corporeal may boldly depend that he knows the nature of that by which a transmutation of form is made of this nature is Glaubers Sal Mirabilis Paracelsus's Sal Enixum and my Sal Panaristos We see 't is an easy matter to take the Garments off a poor man and give him more rich ones so 't is the same in this case if we have a true Knowledge of the Fountain of Nature And if the Philosophers in the Mineral Kingdom can transmute Jupiter into vendible Sol why

as Moses that chosen Prophet of God laid down Temperance through his Four Books as a main hinge of Salvation 't is the very same in the great World for a Temperate Season makes a Fruitfull Harvest and in some sence the whole Creation stands in an Harmony both in the greater and lesser World having a Sympathy and Fellow-feeling together so that if any one part rejoyce or suffer as 't is a member of the great body that will feel of the effect And if it be so as really it is why should not Temperance be observed in the right and moderate use of the Creature by which means health is wonderfully preserved and long Life expected for why the Spirits or the Chariots of Life being kept brisk serene or free and not burned with stupifying and obnoxious Vapours retain their power in preserving the qualities in a due and equal Temperature thence the Archeius and internal fire have power Spagirically to exereise the office in disso●ution fermentation seperation purification distillation exaltation digestion and maturation of the alimentary parts by which the fabrick of the body is supply'd in all its parts and maintain'd in due decorum nay by this means the Spirit Soul and Body are strengthned the mind so fitted and qualify'd as to search into the most obstruce Secrets of Nature and such by consequence may sooner expect to obtain Vniversal Science than others and understand what is delivered by Moses concerning the original Chaos viz. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and the Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the Waters with a lux fiat which soon proclaims its embassage and separated all the distinct natures that lay unfruitfully hidden in the Pavillions of Confusion such was the activity of the All searching Spirit of God as to exalt from thence a World of substantial Harmony adorning every part with unexpressable beauty from which words it is plain to be conceived that the Original of all things was a Chaos void and without form yee a confused Mountain of Water which was potentially all things yet actually nothing from whence did not only proceed the World as is said but also that Fountain and Vniversal Spirit which preserveth nourisheth and maintaineth multiplying and succouring being to this very day from hence also proceedeth by the Fire of Conflagration the Chaos Magical the true Exaltation of which is the greatest of Spagirical Operations that ever the great God revealed to mankind For out of that proceeds not only the Authors Sal Panaristos but also Paracelsus's Sal Enixum and the Sal Mirabilis of the wise together with the Liquor Alkaest and Vniversal Mercury of the Philosophers with their Aurum potibile and grand Panacea as also the perpetual lights of the Magi with their Malleable Glass their Tyron purple and Crimson dye and other such like Mysteries which are only ordain'd for the wise in heart to enjoy For such by their temperate Life are not only fitted for a search but also when obtain'd know how to make a right use thereof and for their reward they have not only Wisdom but also Riches Honour and length of days so that Temperance is a virtue highly to be esteem'd of seeing it is an inlet to many others and such as will produce the most blessed Fruits that are to be enjoy'd on this side Immortality therefore recommended to all as a most precious Jewel which if received and practised that will find the wonderfull and effectual Virtues thereof and thus I shall conclude Temperance to be the cause of much good Now as to Intemperance it is on the other hand the cause of as many Evills For we see by experience that the Glutton never esteems the Benefies that proceed from Temperance for that he is never so well satisfied as when he is gormondising himself making his Belly his God as I may truly call it for that he riseth in the Morning and scarce ever ceaseth lifting his Hand to his Mouth untill he hath made himself drunk and absorb'd all his Faculties in the excess of the abomination of the Bestial nature nay worse than the Beast of the Field for they answer the end of the Creation taking that in Nature which is sufficient for their subsistence their general sauce that agitates them is the penetrating power of the Air they commonly have no other Bed but Earth or Canopy but Heaven when as the sensual Glutton hath all that is needfull even to a Superfluity he lies upon his Couches of Ivory and Beds of Delight and heeds not Mercy and is unmindful of his fellow Creatures even the cries of poor Lazarus which would accept of the Crumbs that fall from his Table and lies at his Gates the Dogs licking his Sores till he died The cruelty and unmercifulness of this Intemperance is so abominable that I want place to resent it therefore shall pass it by here only recommend it to their consideration the difference of the future Estate of these Two Lazarus was carried by the good Angels into Abraham's Bosom But Dives by the evil into Hell to be tormented c. Now there is another sort of Intemperance which in some sence may be said to be like that of the former viz. The Miser's Intemperance which is the making his Money his God caring not how he pines his Body so that he may be rich nor who he destroys so that he may but attain his end he will gripe it in with a thousand Lies taking all advantages catching and over reaching and out-witting by circumventing Bargains yet will wipe his Mouth with this That he is a wise Dealer and that these are lawful Profits and certainly the Blessing of God attends because he is so rich and so calls Riches that are gotten by such abominable ways God's Blessings and will further conclude that consequently he must be the Servant of God when alas he is a Bondslave to Satan who hath lull'd him asleep and thus puff'd him up with Pride which causes him to despise his Fellow-creatures which are not of the same Abilities with him let their acquirements be what they will they are esteem'd not worthy of his Converse and if they are exercis'd in their Spirits through the multiplicity of Care that attend this Life so as to cause some various changes in their Actions then for certain they are supposed to be Ideots Maggots or some pitiful Fellows that have committed some secret and hainous Sins for which they are attended with such Internal and External Judgments but I thought it convenient to let such rash Judgers know that they may for certain be mistaken for all this for as the Scripture says Whom God loveth he chastiseth and David said It was good for him that he was afflicted for before he was afflicted he went astray and the Gospel Commands are That we should hoard in Treasure in

proceeding until they are able Gramatically to demonstrate the root of Languages And althô this was originally but as a Mite in Philosophy or as an early born Babe just able to speak the innocent Language yet 't is now so nourished up that it may be said to be grown up to a Manly stature in Art and I am resolved to continue my favourable Aspect to it so as to make it become serviceable to its choicest Friends Therefore O ye Nobles and Gallants of this English World I thought it convenient to let the excellent Spirit amongst you know that we highly accept of your encouraging useful Arts which may be yet in a far higher degree perform'd than hitherto because your Land doth ri●hly abound with such growths and products as few Lands do excel For this Britanish Island brings forth that Chaos from whence ariseth the first Matter and Seed of the Mineral Kingdom out of which all those substantial Glories of the Mineral Kingdom and Medicinal Monarchy which the Philosophers have written of As to the Woollen Manufacturage it helps to cloath the Inhabitants of other Lands As to the Linen Manufacturage established by the Parliament since my last Impression under so honourable a Title gaves me great satisfaction since it is so industriously encouraged I can suppose no other but that it will so flourish as to abound As to Food it is with such great variety of Dishes as is not only sufficient to refresh but also pleasingly to answer the greatest Curiosity that the most difficult Palates may modestly require The like is to be understood concerning Wines and other Liquors which might be brought to a Superabundance and the more especially if the almost Sacred Law of Temperance was but duly regarded A Second Reason that obliged me was That although there was various Books of Distillation extant yet they are now of little service because the Basis they went on is overthrown and the Constitution of Distillation is so altered by the Parliament that no Wares are to be made or Sold but what is Distilled from sound Grain I have therefore offered to the Industrious and honest Minded some Considerations concerning the encouraging and erecting of a Brandy Manufacturage here in England and by such Manudactions we shall not only be able to supply our Defects at home but also upon such good and advantageous grounds that our Wares may become vendible in other Lands to the great advancement of our own and then we might in time expect the wast and Forrests and Hills to be couverted into fenced Fields and pleasant Gardens filled with all such sort of Growths viz. Orchards Vineyards Flax and Hemp Fields according as the natural Soil will best bring forth by this means many thousands of the Poor might be so employ'd as to reform therefrom a much more comfortable substance than otherwise For these and such like reasons was this Book Printed and taken a part from my Chymicus Rationalis which was composed from my serious review of that Art which way in time also see the Light Therefore I thought it● convenient to let the Reader know that as I have come amongst the Lovers of Art and ingenious Men so that Discourse of things of this kind have happen'd that some have been very d sirous that I would first in plain words communicate to them the Re●●ipts contain'd in the subject Matter here Treated of or else that I would be so publick spirited as to Print them Now for substantial Reasons I was not willing to deny both therefore I made choice of the latter for that the former would have attended me with Difficulties and Expence to have obliged the great variety of acquaintance and when this had been done 't would have fall'n short peradventure of satisfying the hundredth part of the Desires of Things of this Nature Therefore as 't is generally Publish'd so I hope 't will accordingly be accepted seeing I recommend not so much my self as those practical Essays in making Artificial Wines from those Growths which to our Knowledge was so fully demonstrated before and if they were it makes nothing against this seeing it is so generally acknowledged that there is nothing so well done but something may be added to it in any Art or Science and more especially in this of Man's Office in the great Field of Nature which if promoted in an acceptable way I have my desir'd Recompence and I shall labour in my Day and Time to be as serviceable as in me lies to the Sons of Men In the Resolutions of which I shall conclude this Introduction Subscribing my Self a Friend and Lover of all Industrious Imprevers of Art under what denomination soever Written and abundantly enlarged by the Author so that the Original Copy that was deliver'd a●● his House at the Collegium Chimicum at Rotterdam is not comparable to it c. And so Subscribes W. Y-WORTH Geboortigh Van Shipham Van Rotterdam Borger Now Resident at London June 6. 1691 at the Academia Spagirica Nova being Professor and Teacher of the said Art in all its parts Vale. THE CONTENTS OR CHIEF HEADS OF THE Ensuing Treatise CHAP. I. OF Vineyards Orchards and their Improvement with the best way of Planting Vineyards and how to make make the Wine with the Vertues that proceed from the Vinor growth in general CHAP. II. The Spagirick Way of dissecting Concrets and the offic●● of Essences in exalting Wine● CHAP. III. The way to make Wines of Apples Pears Peaches Cherries Plums Sloes Damasins Quinces Figgs also from Goosberries Mulberries Currens Blackberries and Elder-berries also from Roses Carnations Cowslips Scurvy-grass Mint and Balm and other Trees Shrubs Flowers and Herbs CHAP. IV. Observations in making Wines and how to make Artificial Wine Artificial Clarets and Rhenish and to make Mead c. with several other usefull receipts CHAP. V. Of the clause in the Act of Parliament concerning Distillation and how the six common Basis's as of Malt Beer Syder the Grounds of Beer and Syder Br●wers-wash Molassos Damnify'd Raisins low and flat Wines are now converted into the three general pillars of Distillation CHAP. VI. Aqua Vitae and English Spirits being made according to the late Act from thence to reduce good and wholsom Brandy little inferior to that of France and several considerations for the incouraging of a Brandy Manufacturage to be Erected here in England SECT II. The Office of these Spirits concerning making Cordial Waters as Cardamum Caraway Angellico Mint Balm Hearts-ease an excellent Plague Water Stomach-Water Irish Usquebaugh Aqua multa series a trible Water SECT III. To Dalcify Colour Refine and perfume Waters for Sale CHAP. VII Of Spirit of Elder Spirit of Scuray-grass and other high Spirits fit for China Japan and Lack Varnish with their several Vses CHAP. VIII A General Treatise of the Original and Nature of Diseases together with their Cure by S●agirick Medicines with an Advertisement concerning the Author 's other Books A Post script containing Rules

while 't is warm it may be made into Rouls or Cakes or cast into moulds or what form you please To make the Liquor of Chocolate ℞ Milk and Water of each one pound and let them boyl a while and then add of your Chocolate grated an ounce an ounce and half or two as you 'l have it in richness let it simper a little then take it from the Fire and add to it the Yolks of two new laid Eggs well beaten with as much Meevus Sugar as will sweeten it and then Mill it with a Mill for that purpose till it be thick Secundum Artem. To pickle Cucumbers so that they may look Green Take of Water and Vinegar alike and make the Liquor strong with Bay-Salt and other Salt mixt together and having boiled it very well your Cucumbers being in a Vessel in rows with Dill betwixt every row and a little of Verjuice or the Green Juice of Grapes upon the uppermost row then pour your Liquor boyling hot upon them then cover them close so that the steem may not come out and let them stand 14 days and Nights then cant off the Liquor and boyl up the same Liquor again with Pepper Cloves Mace Cinamon or other Spices as you think fit and put on your Cucumbers again and cover them very close for use by this means they will look Green The Pickle of them is good to be used in Inflamations and Scorbutick Nodes and other diseases as being a kind of Elatorium dissolved by the Acidity c. So much for this Chapter I shall now proceed to that of Distillation CHAP. V. Treateth of the Cheif heads in the Act of Parliament concerning Di●●illation in which is sh●w'd how the Constitutution of Distillation is alter'd DIstillation is a separating and extracting of the most Spirituous Liquor from the grosser part of the body by heat and therefore the purer your Basis is the more pure will your Spirits be for this end and purpose we are now to consider how we can proceed that our Hypothesis may have affinity with the Law for the Parliament hath constituted a path way for all Distillers to walk in and because we 'l make no breach in this point I shall make use of the chief heads therein contained c. in the Act entituled The Encouraging the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn. First the Trade and Commerce of France being prohibited and all their Goods from being imported into this Kingdom And whereas good and wholesome Brandys Aqua-vitae and Spirits may be drawn made from Malted-Corn For the Encouragement therefore of the making of Brandy Strongwaters and Spirits from Malted Corn and for the greater Consumption of Corn and the advantage of Tillage in this Kingdom The King Queen and Parliament th●n assembled have thus ordained it that every Gallon of low Wine of the first Extraction made or drawn from any foreign and imported materials or any mixture with foreign materials 8 d.. For every Gallon of low Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction made or drawn from Brewers Wash or Tilts or from any sort of English Materials other than from drink Brewed and pepared from any sort of Malted Corn or from Perry or Syder 1 s. For every Gallon of low Wines of the first Extraction drawn and made only from Drink brewed and made of any sort of Malted Corn. One penny And for every Gallon of low Wines of the first Extraction drawn or made from Syder or Perry or any mixture therewith Three pence And 't is further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all Distillers and others who shall draw or make any low Wines Spirits or Brandy from Corn shall brew or cause their Corn to be brewed and made into clean and wholsome drink and from such drink so made and prepared without any mixture with any Molossus Wash or Tilts or other materials whatsoever shall draw their low Wines or Spirits of the first Extraction c. So that the Basis that Distillers are to erect upon are well brewed Beer Syder and Perry therefore the matter of Distillation cannot be so hard seeing the making of these is so well known in England but however there is one thing yet difficult which is to give a taste to English Spirits and make it in the second Distillation like to that of Brandy and that by the addition only of the Products of England so that this would be very advantageous to cause the Wares to be transported to most of the European parts and this would be wonderfully advantageous both to the Factrage and Products of England as I shall more largely touch at in the next Chapter And although I may justly claim right to this S●cret yet I shall be very ●ree to give my Secret to others with this provisor that it might advance the good of the publick which can be no otherwise done than by the Establishment of a Brandy Manufacturage for otherwise the Proverb may prove true viz. Th●t private E●ds carry away publick Profit Therefore such a Facturage would have some general tendence First the chief Cities and Towns in the Kingdom may be supplied with good Wares which now many come short of Secondly the growths and products of the Kingdom of England and the Dominions thereunto belonging may be more easily brought to a Country Town than undergo the troublesome carriage some scores of Miles there being also the conveniency of Fires for Distillation at cheaper rates and again they he more ready and for that reason may be afforded cheaper in the transportation thereof for if they were to be Distin'd here in London and carried to E●eter the carriage by Land as Pam informed i● 7 l. a Pipe and so by consequence proportionable to every part in England and this would so greatly exalt the price that People would rather be contented with indifferent Wares than pay so dear for better And that which is yet more principal by such a publick Manufacturage the King's Customs would be highly advanced and more certain than in any private hands whatsoever for that their Commissioners and Collectors might have open recourse thereunto with abundance less trouble than now possibly can be But of this in its proper place let us now return from this Digression to Distillation Where let me beg this boon of the Honourable P●● that no exceptions may be taken concerning my prescribing various Products in Distillation for I desire not to do it to infrigate the breaking any English Law but on the contrary own a due obedience thereunto only am willing to serve the Netherland where I have a Brothership and Natives priviledge too and also to be serviceable to several Islands that belongs to their Majesties or any of their Dominions where various things are made use of in Distillation which we shall here treat of but First of Malt. Aqua vitae is nothing else but well Brew'd Beer that is strongly Hop'd and well firmented but if it should not be

Original Nature Variation and Cure of Diseases may therefore as we before said be comprehended and understood in a three-fold respect First in the Knowledge of the Microcosmical structure and how Diseases arise in human kinds so as to assault the Animal Life and sensitive Soul for we find that all the Diseasy Idea's are conveyed in the vehicle of the Spiritual Juices to the constitutive parts Secondly In knowing the proper Indications of Diseases and how changes and variations are made in simple and complicate ones for 't is very necessary that the concurrences in the Nature and Eventual accidents thereof be praeominated Thirdly these being understood we may boldly insist upon the Cure of Diseases by a Judicious Administration of proper Medicines and by such variations as are requisit for removing the Cause thereof But before we proceed to lay down the Rise and Nature of Diseases we think it convenient to make our Intention the more plain first to define what a Disease is a Disease therefore is defin'd to be an assault made upon the Spiritual Life in human kinds in order to make a breach of its natural Harmony For 't is plain to us that Diseases have their first Existence in the very principles of Life and sensitive Soul by which they are conveyed to the Archaeus who is as we say the central vital Spirit exalted to the highest state in the Microcosm which distributes a vital ray of which Ares is Specificator to all the parts and Members of the body which being assaulted by the Diseasy Idea's whether Superior Influences Epidemick Venoms or other accidents causing Terror Fury and Amazement whereby Nature becomes unmindful of her own office and admits of Diseases and sometimes death without resistance Because by such preternatural actions the wrathful quality is stirred up which otherwise lay silent in the Centre of the body for as we have said in our Medicina Rationalis the feed of Life and Death is placed and originally existeth in the Center of every Body and of Man in order to subdue him to fear and reverence his Creator for as the Apostle saith From Adam death reigned upon all men Now this Archaeus hath such a pure Central Life that it is immediately put into fury and distraction by those clouds the diseases Idea makes which being antipatherical to its purity it cannot but oppose endeavouring so long to cast them off till enraged thereby and so neglecting its own office many times immediately admits of death but if not so soon these untoward guests take place captivating and destroying and as they have admittance assume Matter and become corporeal whence according to its continuance proceed chronick diseases or such as be of difficult cure For this matter as we have said in our Spagirick Philosophy asserted is by degrees dissolved and spread through the Body and so universally assaults the whole Fabrick or at least wise some principal part or organ thereof whence somtimes proceed Obstructions Hypocondriack Melancholy and many others for the Humors especially the predominant have thereby power to overflow thence Diseases from the inequality of Humors which often are remotely promoted by the six Non-naturals We therefore assert these to be the accidental not the original or Procafarctick Cause of diseases as many will have them and that by these Nature is deprived of her own State and Office and led into that which is contrary to her which prevails so long as the Anatomia Essata hath power to Dart forth her venom in order to extinguish the Fountain of Life We shall therefore state this as a general Aphorism in Physick that if the Spirit the Fabricator and Conservor of Human Bodies stands clear and undefiled being not infected by the clouds of Diseases the Body which is the Receptacle of the Spirit must needs remain in a vigorous activity for no morbifick Matter can exist therein but by the Spirits Error which afterwards forms Matter and becomes corporeal For as Christ says Mat. 12.28 How can one enter into a strong Man's House and spoil his Goods except he first bind the strong Man In reference hereunto the Spirit may be said to be a strong Man and the Arche as the Watchman of the Microcosme which examins all therefore must be first bound and captivated before the House or Body can be destroy'd Thus much in general concerning the Original of Diseases and their forms impress'd by the Diseases Idea on the Spirit through which they become corporeal we shall now consider by what Medium they act We say then as the external Air of the Macrocosm is the Medium between Heaven and Earth containing the universal Spirit by whose Power Life proceeds from Generation to Generation and by the deprivation thereof Death Corruption and Destruction for being darkned corrupted and infected with divers Spiritual Forms whether Superior or Inferior by exhalation of corrupted Fumes for 't is a Matrix that receives all till over-burthen'd or infected thereby it sends forth its venom both on Man and Beast as is too too evident in Pestilential times c. So 't is in the Air of the Microcosm where the Spirit acts that being the medium between Life and Death and consequently the effective Instrument of Health and Diseases for that being over-burthened either by the superior Influences or Spirituality of the different exhalations proceeding either from a subsequent Cause or the immediate Passions and exasperation of the Mind by Anger Grief Fear or the like or of the Body by suddain motion or Cold by which the Spirit is too much inflamed or contracted or from the superabundance of Meat or Drink taken For althô these are the handmaids and nourisher of Life yet when taken in excess they many times become the very instrument of Death like as the most choice Panacea which by a ray of its light is able to cure all Diseases yet too many rays thereof will overpower the natural one and so extinguish it wFor as Sandivogius says a great Fire soon extinguishes a small one and that many of the Philosophers have destroy'd themselves by not knowing the right use of the grand Panacea for we are to receive things in Temperance so as to strengthen the natural heat and not to overcome it as we have touched at in the Preface 'T is no wonder indeed why there should be such variation in Diseases and so many new and complicate ones arise if we rightly consider how great the excess and intemperance this age abounds with is for from thence proceeds a debilitation of the Spirit a defect of the Spiritual Juices and an inlet to cacochamick ones and from thence corruption and this being united with the Debaucheries receiving from each other the Spiritual vapour of their poisonous Venom 's the Grand Pox is contracted which being not timely cured corrupts and stains the Vessels with its Diseases Malignancy and is often sent forth to the superficies of the Body and internally stains the radical moisture causing