Hantshire Hoggs, are allowed by all for the best Bacon, being our English Westphalian, and which well ordered hath deceived the most judicious Pallats. Here the Swine feed in the Forrest on plenty of Acorns, (Mens meat in the golden,* 1.1 Hogs food in this iron Age,) which going out lean, return home fat, without either care or cost of their Owners. Nothing but fulness stinteth their feeding on the Mast falling from the Trees, where also they lodge at liberty, (not pent up, as in other places, to stacks of Pease) which some assign the reason of the fineness of their flesh, which though not all Glorre (where no bancks of lean, can be seen for the Deluge of fat) is no less delicious to the taste, and more wholsome for the stomack.
Swines-flesh by the way is observed most nutritive of mens bodies, because of its assi∣milation thereunto. Yet was the eating thereof forbidden to the Jewes, whereof this Reason may be rendred, (besides the absolute Will of the Law-giver,) because in hot countries Mens bodies are subject to the Meastes and Leprosies, who have their greatest repast on Swines-flesh. For the Climate of Canaan, was all the year long as hot, as England betwixt May and Michael-mass, and it is penal for any Butch∣ers with us in that Term to kill any Pork in the Publick Shambles.
As for the Manufacture of Clothing in this County, (diffused throughout the same) such as deny the goodness of Hant-shire Cloath, and have occasion to wear it, will be convinced of its true worth by the price which they must pay for it.