Make an oaken vessel as big or as little as you please, according to the greatness, or littleness, multitude, or fewness of the vessels, of two or three spans high, a little narrower above then below, and so fashioned above, that a cover of wood, copper, or lead, may most closely be joyned to it: the cover must have holes greater or lesser, according to the glasses, as is wont to be in the making of a _Balneum_, as you may see by the annexed figure. This vessel also must be placed upon a stool of the height of an ell, or such height as is required for the joyning of the copper globe with the _Balneum_, which must have a hole near the lower bottom, for the receiving of the neck of the aforesaid globe. In defect of such a vessel, which yet you may provide easily enough, take a wine or bear vessel divided in the middle, and make a hole near the bottom for the neck of the globe, make also a wooden cover with holes, &c. He that will be curious may provide all things according to the best Art. _A wooden vessel serving for boyling of bear, metheglin, vinegar, =&c.= as well as copper, iron, and tin vessels._ Make a wooden vessel, which shall be more high than broad, a little wider above than below, as you please: or take a wine or bear barrel divided in the middle, and near the bottom make a hole for the neck of the globe, which is to be covered with boards, which serves as well for the boyling of bear, _&c._ as those of copper. _A wooden vessel for a bath for sweet, or mineral water, which may be according as you please, kept warm, for the preserving of health._ Make a long wooden tub convenient to sit in, which is to be set upon a stool of a just height, _viz._ that the bottom of the vessel may answer the neck of the globe which is put into the furnace: you may also have a cover, that may cover the whole tub, which may be divided and united in that place where the head goes forth, as appears by the annexed figure, or you may cover it with a cloth, laying it upon small crooked sticks fastned to the tub, yet so that the head may have its liberty, especially in a vaporous bath of common sweet, or medicinal water; or make a high wooden cover shutting very close, for a dry sweat, where it is no matter whether the head be shut in or no. _Of the use of wooden vessels in distilling, boyling, bathing, =&c.= And first of the distilling vessel._ He that will distill any burning spirit by help of the distilling vessel, out of wine, metheglin, bear, barley, wheat, meal, apples, pears, cherries, figs, _&c._ also out of flowers, seeds, and other vegetables, hath need so to prepare his materials, that they may yield their spirit. Where I thought it convenient, and indeed necessary to say something of the preparation of each vegetable, for better information sake, or else a profitable distillation is not to be expected, but labour in vain to be feared.