[287] _Surveyor's Dialogue_, p. 188. [288] Ibid. p. 207. [289] _Victoria County History: Devon, Agriculture_. [290] _Herefordshire Orchards a Pattern for All England_ (ed. 1724). [291] See infra, p. 136. [292] These extracts are from the original edition in the Bodleian Library. [293] 'The Flanders cherry excels', says Worlidge, _Syst. Agr._, p. 97. [294] Bradley, in 1726, gives a long list of pears all with French names, hardly any of which are now known in England. [295] Worlidge, _Systema Agriculturae_, p. 107. [296] _Annotation upon the Legacie of Husbandry_, 1651, p. 105. [297] Markham, i. 174 (ed. 1635). [298] _Systema Agriculturae_, p. 152. [299] Evelyn, _Pomona_ (ed. 1664), p. 2. [300] _Compleat Husbandman_ (ed. 1659), p. 75. [301] _Most Approved and Long Experienced Waterworks_. London, 1610. [302] See Worlidge, _Systema Agriculturae_ (ed. 1669), p. 155. [303] Tooke, _History of Prices_, i. 23. [304] _Life of Sir S. D'Ewes_, i. 180. [305] _Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1629-31, p. 414. [306] _Whole Art of Husbandry_ (ed. 1635), i. 50. [307] Ibid. i. 100. [308] Ibid. i. 121. [309] An astonishing statement; cf. Denton, _England in the Fifteenth Century_, p. 56, Neckham, _De Natura Rerum_, cap. clxvi. and above, p. 93. [310] _Whole Art of Husbandry_ (ed. 1635), i. 173. [311] _Whole Art of Husbandry_ (ed. 1635), ii. 144. and MS. accounts of Mr. Chevallier of Aspall Hall, Suffolk. [312] Thorold Rogers, _History of Agriculture and Prices_, v. 28. [313] _Farming and Account Books of Henry Best of Elmswell_, 1641, Surtees Society, xxxiii. 157. [314] Ibid. p. 99. [315] _Farming and Account Books of Henry Best of Elmswell_, 1641. Surtees Society, xxxiii. 124. Many districts in the north of England were still much behind the rest of the country. [316] Trevelyan, _England under the Stuarts_, 8 sq. Though, as we have seen, p. 157, the writer of the _Fruiterer's Secrets_ recommends the gun for scaring birds in 1604. [317] _The Husbandry of Brabant and Flanders_ (ed. 1652), p. 18. [318] _Systema Agriculturae_, p. 26. [319] MS. accounts of Sir Abel Barker, in the possession of G.W.P. Conant, Esq. [320] Worlidge, _Systema Agriculturae_, p. 28. [321] _Compleat Husbandman_ (1659), p. 5. [322] Ibid. p. 9. [323] Cf. supra, p. 136. [324] _Compleat Husbandman_ (1659), p. 23. [325] _Archaeologia_, i. 324; iii. 53. [326] _De Natura Rerum_, Rolls Ser., lxi. [327] Denton, _England in the Fifteenth Century_, 57 n. [328] Ibid. [329] Ed. 1686, p. 380. [330] R. Bradley, _A General Treatise of Husbandry_ (ed. 1726), ii. 52.