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

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. |