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The perfect Kilne.

Which to preuent, and that the Malster may haue better assurance and comfort in her labour, there is a Kilne now of generall vse in this Kingdome, which is called a French Kilne, being framed of a Bricke, Ash∣ler, or other fire-stone, according to the nature of the soyle in which Husbands and Hous wiues liue: and this French Kilne is euer safe and secure from fire, and whether the Malster wake or sleepe, without extreame wilfull negligence, there can no danger come to the Kilne; and in these Kilnes may be burnt any kind of fewell whatsoeuer, and neither shall the smoke offend or breed ill taste in the Malt, nor yet discolour it, as many times it doth in open Kilnes, where the Malt is as it were, couered all ouer, and euen pa••boyld in smoke: so that of all sorts of Kilnes whatsoeuer, this which is called the French Kilne, is to be preferred and onely embraced. Of the forme or mode•• whereof, I will not here stand to entreat, because they are now so ge∣nerally frequent amongst vs, that not a Mason or Carpenter in the whole Kingdome but can bu••d the s••me; so that to vse more words thereof were tedious∣nesse to little purpose. Now there is an••ther kind of

Kilne which I haue seene (and but in the West-country onely) which for the profitable quaintnesse thereof, I tooke some especiall note of, and that was a Kilne made at the end of a Kitchin Raunge or Chimney, being in shape round, and made of Bricke, with a little hol∣lownesse narrowed by degrees▪ into which came from the bottome and midst of the Kitchin-chimney a hol∣low tun••ell or vault, like the tunnell of a Chimny, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 directly on the backe side, the hood or backe of the Kitchin chimney; then in the midst of the Chim∣ney, where the greateh strength of the fire was made, was a ••quare hole made of about a foote and a halfe e∣ue••y way, with an Iron thicke plate to draw to and fro, opening and closing the hole at pleasure; and this hole doth open onely into that tunnell which went to the Kilne, so that the Malt being once laid, and spread vpon the Kilne, draw away the Iron plate, and the or∣dinary fire with which you dresse your meate, and performe other necessary businesses, is suckt vp into this tunnell, and so conuaieth the heate to the Kilne, where it drieth the Malt with as great perfection, as a∣ny Kilne I saw in my life, and needeth neither atten∣dance or other ceremony more, then once in fiue or sixe houres to turne the Malt, and take it away when it is dried sufficiently: for it is here to be noted, that how great or violent soeuer the fire be which is in the Chimney, yet by reason of the passage, and the quan∣tity thereof, it carrieth no more but a moderate heate to the Kilne; and for the smoke, it is so carried away in other loope-holes which runne from the hollownesse betweene the tunnell and the Malt-bed, that no Malt in the world can possibly be sweeter, or more delicate∣ly coloured▪ onely the fault of these Kilns are, that they

are but little in compasse, and so cannot dry much at a time, as not aboue a quarter or ten strike at the most in one drying, and therefore are no more but for a ma••s owne particular vse, and for the furnishing of one set∣led family; but so applied, they exceede all the Kilnes that I haue seene whatsoeuer.