nformed by what steps and degrees he ascended to the same.

He was born in the year of our Lord 1588. His Father being one of
the ablest _Cooks_ in his time, and his first Tutor in the knowledge
and practice of Cookery; under whom having attained to some
perfection in this Art, the old Lady _Dormer_ sent him over into
_France_, where he continued five years, being in the Family of a
noble Peer, and first President of _Paris_; where he gained not only
the _French_ Tongue but also bettered his Knowledge in his
_Cookery_, and returning again into _England_, was bound an
Apprentice in _London_ to Mr. _Arthur Hollinsworth_ in _Newgate
Market_, one of the ablest Work-men in _London_, Cook to the
_Grocers Hall and Star Chamber_. His Apprentiship being out, the
Lady _Dormer_ sent for him to be her Cook under Father (who then
served that Honourable Lady) where were four Cooks more, such Noble
Houses were then kept, the glory of that, and the shame of this
present Age; then were those Golden Days wherein were practised the
_Triumphs and Trophies of Cookery_; then was Hospitality esteemed,
Neighbourhood preserved, the Poor cherished, and God honoured; then
was Religion less talkt on, and more practised; then was Atheism &
Schism less in fashion: then did men strive to be good, rather then
to seem so. Here he continued till the Lady _Dormer_ died, and then
went again to _London_, and served the Lord _Castlehaven_, after
that the Lord _Lumley_, that great lover and knower of Art, who
wanted no knowledge in the discerning this mystery; next the Lord
_Montague_ in _Sussex_; and at the beginning of these wars, the
Countess of _Kent_, then Mr. _Nevel_ of _Crissen Temple_ in _Essex_,
whose Ancestors the _Smiths_ (of whom he is descended) were the
greatest maintainers of Hospitality in all those parts; nor doth the
present M. _Nevel_ degenerate from their laudable examples. Divers
other Persons of like esteem and quality hath he served; as the Lord
_Rivers_, Mr. _John Ashburnam_ of the Bed-Chambers, Dr. _Steed_ in
_Kent_, Sir _Thomas Stiles_ of _Drury Lane_ in _London_, Sir
_Marmaduke Constable_ in _York-shire_, Sir _Charles Lucas_; and
lastly the Right Honourable the Lady _Englefield_, where he now
liveth.

Thus have I given you a breif account of his Life, I shall next tell
you in what high esteem this noble Art was with the Ancient Romans:
_Plutarch_ reports, that _Lucullus_ his ordinary diet was fine
dainty dishes, with works of pa