A necessarie Table setting forth the

contents of these two 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.]
Who 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.[cap.iiij.]
Whether 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 the Bees.[cap.vij.]
Of the maruellous gouernement of the King of honie Bees, and of the obedience which they vse to hym.[cap.viij.]
What kind of Bees be best, and rather to be chosen.[cap.ix.]
Where the Hiues of Bees ought especially to be placed.[cap.x.]
What 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.]
What maner 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 themselues.[cap.xx.]
How Bees lost, may be recouered and found againe.[cap.xxj.]
That the Bees sting no person comming neere to their hiues.[cap.xxij.]
When and how the hiues ought to be gelded.[cap.xxiij.]
What the honie is, and how from the hiues the same may be prepared to vse.[cap.xxiiij.]
Which honie is accounted best.[cap.xxv.]
Of the venomous honie, and of the wonderful hony of Creta.[cap.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.xxix.]
Of the drinke Oenomel, which is made of pure wine & hony.[cap.xxx.]
Of the singular water of hony gotten by order of distillation.[cap.xxxj.]
Another maner of distilling the hony more at large taught.[cap.xxxij.]
The maner of distilling a water of hony named the Quintessence.[cap.xxxiij.]
The maner of drawing and making waxe of the combes.[cap.xxxiiij.]
What waxe is best allowed, &c.[cap.xxxv.]
Of the great commoditie and benefite of waxe in medicines.[cap.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 Husbandly coniectures of dearth & plenty for euer.[cap.j.]
An euerlasting Prognostication of the state and condition of euery yeare, by the only calends of Ianuary, written by the ancient & learned Leopol. Aust. & other for the commodity of the wise husbandmen.[cap.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 instructions, right necessary for husbandmen to know.[cap.iiij.]

¶ The firste Treatise setteth foorthe the strange gouernment, propertie, and benifite of the Bees, with the commoditie of their Hony and Waxe, whiche serue vnto many good vses, as well in outward as inwarde causes applied, gathered out of Plinie, Albertus, Varro, Columella, Palladius, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cardanus, Guilielmus de Conchis, Agrippa, and diuers other singular Authours.

¶ Why Bees are named to be creasted or parted betweene, or as it were ringed, or rather pleighted. What work the swarme newe gathered in the Hiue, first taketh in hande, and whether they maye liue after their stings bee gone. Cap.first.