The Book of Husbandry

[Sidenote: Husbandmen live by the plough and by cattle.] The mooste generall lyuynge that husbandes can haue, is by plowynge and sowyng of theyr cornes, and rerynge or bredynge...

50. This last paragraph is called by I. R. ‘Fitzherberts protestation;’ yet he actually alters his author’s words, substituting ‘the holy scriptures’ for ‘al holy churche,’ with...

Now that I haue prescribed the manner to make and temper the most or all the sorts of Ploughs, it shall next seeme expedient for me to show the manner and time of the yeare in w...

I cannot help being reminded of Fitzherbert’s list of weeds in sect. 20 (p. 29), in which he includes _haudoddes_, _i.e._ corn blue-bottles, as is obvious from his description;...

The fourth book has an introductory chapter, not in Fitzherbert, subdivided into sections with the following headings. The office of a Steward of a houshold. For prouiding of vi...

Take the iuyce of the Onion called _Scilla_, take _Hellybor_, and _Bitumen Iudaicum_, mingle these together, and incorporate them in manner of a plaister. The _Macedonians_ and...

If thy ground be barraine and hard, yeelding nothing but ill Hay of insuing profit, then shal it be necessary for thee to vse these secrets in Art which is most auaileable. And...

Thus hauing sufficiently debated touching the choosing, cherishing, and curing of sheep, I thinke it good a little to speake of Goates and their vse: a kinde of Cattell which al...

Take a good quantitie of the blacke dregges of Oyle, foure penny-worth of Quicksiluer wel killed,[41] as much Brimstone, Pitch, Wax, and Hoggs-grease as will make it thicke like...