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When you put water into a eething Balneum wherein there are glaes, let it be hot or ele thou wilt endanger the breaking or the glaes.

When thou taket any earthen, or glae veell from the fire, expoe it not to the cold aire too uddenly for feare it hould break.

If thou wouldet have a Balneum as hot as ahes,' put and or awdut into it, that the heat of the water may be therewith kept in, and made more intene.

If you would make a heat with hore-dung, the manner is this, viz. make a hole in the ground, then lay one coure of hore-dung a foot thick, then a coure of unlaked lime halfe a foot thick, then another of dung, as before, then let in your veell, and lay round it lime, and hore-dung mixt together; pree it downe very hard; you mut prinkle it every other day with water, and when it ceaeth to be hot, then take it out and put in more.

Note that alwayes and or ahes mut be well ifted, for otherwie a coal or tone therein may break your glae.

The time for putrefaction of things is various, for if the thing to be putrefied be vegetables and green, lee time is required, if dry, a longer, if Minerals the longet of all. Thus much note,that|things are ooner putrefied in cloudy weather then in faire.

If thou wouldet keep vegetables freh and green all the year, gather them in a dry day, and put them into an earthen veell, which you mut top cloe, and et in a cold place: and they will as aith Glauberus keep freh a whole year. 15. Doe