A profitable instruction of the perfect ordering of Bees/Table of Contents

by Thomas Hill

A neceſſarie Table ſetting forth the

contents of theſe tvvo Treatiſes.

Theſe treated of in the firſt Treatiſe.

WHy Bees are named to be creſted or parted betweene, or as it were ringed or rather pleighted: what worke the ſwarme new gathered in the Hiue firſte taketh in hande: and whether they may liue after their ſtings be gone.	Cap. j.
VVho firſt taught the preparation and increaſing of Bees, and found out the vſe of honie.	cap. ij.
How Bees do naturally ingender.	cap. iij.
Of the vnperfit Bees, which men properly name drone Bees.	ca. iiij.
VVhether the Bees draw breath, or haue any bloud in them.	cap. v.
Of the great vtilitie and profit of the Bees vnto mans vſe.	cap. vj.
Of the care and diligence of Bees.	cap. vij.
Of the maruellous gouernement of the King of honie Bees, and of the obedience which they vſe to hym.	cap. viij.
VVhat kind of Bees be beſt, and rather to be choſen.	cap. ix.
VVhere the Hiues of Bees ought eſpecially to be placed.	cap. x.
VVhat things Bees do chiefly abhorre, and greatly hate.	cap. xj.
By what ſignes men may knowe when the honie Bees are diſeaſed, and how men may cure them.	cap. xij.
VVhat manner of perſon the keper of the Bees ought to be.	cap. xiij.
By what meanes the ſwarme come forth, may be preſerued from flying away.	cap. xiiij.
Of the Bees new ſettled in a ſwarme togither, and taken and recouered againe.	cap. xv.
Which are the beſt and fitteſt hyues for the honie Bees.	cap. xvj.
Of the cleanlineſſe and ſweeteneſſe of the keeper of Bees, and howe hiues ought to be fenced about, and prepared within.	cap. xvij.
How Bees lacking honie may be fed in that preſent neede.	cap. xviij.
How the dead Bees may be reſtored to life againe.	cap. xix.
Of the battell that Bees ſometime haue within themſelves.	cap. xx.
How Bees loſt, may be recouered and found againe.	cap. xxj.
That the Bees ſting no perſon coming neere to their hiues.	cap. xxij.
VVhen and how the hiues ought to be gelded.	cap. xxiij.
VVhat the honie is, and how from the hiues the ſame may be prepared to vſe.	cap. xxiiij.
VVich honie is accounted beſt.	cap. xxv.
Of the venomous honie, and of the wōderful hony of Creta.	ca. xxvj.
Of the miraculous worthineſſe of honie.	cap. xxvij.
How profitable the vſe of honie is in medicine.	cap. xxviij.
Of the drinke of hony whiche they call the Mulſe water, or ſweete water of the Romaines.	cap. xxxix.
Of the drinke Oenomel, which is made of pure wine & hony.	ca. xxx.
Of the ſingular water of hony gottē by order of diſtillatiō.	ca. xxxj.
Another maner of diſtilling the hony more at large taught.	ca. xxxij.
The maner of diſtilling a water of hony named the Quinteſſēce.	ca. 33
The maner of drawing and making waxe of the combes.	cap. xxxiiij.
VVhat waxe is beſt allowed, &c.	cap. xxxv.
Of the great cōmoditie and benefite of waxe in medicines.	ca. xxxvj.
Of that whiche is a ſtay of the combes, and made for a defence of Bees.	cap. xxxvij.
How to make waxe white.	cap. xxxviij.
How to make red waxe.	cap. xxxix.
How to draw a profitable oyle out of waxe for ſundry vſes.	cap. xl.
Another way of drawing the oyle of waxe moſt noble, and dothe maruellouſly help the cold goute, the ſciaticke, the ſwelling of the legges, and all other griefes of a colde cauſe.	cap. xlj.

Theſe deſcribed in the other Treatiſe.

CErtaine Husbādly cōiectures of dearth & plenty for euer.	cap. j.
An euerlaſting Prognoſticatiō of the ſtate and cōdition of euery yeare, by the only calēds of Ianuary, writtē by the anciēt & learned Leopol. Auſt. & other for the cōmodity of the wiſe husbādmē.	ca. ij.
How to foreknow the ſtate of the yeare by the only riſing of the dog ſtarre, out of the husbandrie of Diophanes.	cap. iij.
Other profitabl inſtructiōs, right neceſſary for husbādmē to know.	c. 4
A moſt profitable rule for the preſeruation of mans health, throughout the twelue monethes of the yeare, after the minde of diuers learned of the Vniuerſitie of Padua.	cap. v.
Of the falling ſicke on any of the weeke dayes, out of that auncient Phiſition Hypocrates.	cap. vj.
Of thoſe manifeſt ſignes, which declare raine to follow.	cap. vij.
Of thoſe manifeſt signes which declare fayr wether to folow.	ca. viij.