Dear All A newcomer to the list, I am based at Middlesex University, London. My PhD research concerns early modern domestic medicine in southwest England. I wonder if anyone can direct me to sources relating to the use of distillation in the early modern household, particularly concerning technical and legal aspects. I would especially like to know whether legal constraints impacted on household distillation - were there any licensing or tax restrictions which might have affected householders in the later seventeenth century and early eighteenth century? Many thanks, Anne Anne Stobart, MNIMH Consultant Medical Herbalist