Agriculture -- England; Conduct of life; Home economics, Rural
=11.= 11. _wonders_] wonderous (which is the later form). The whole
of this section is re-written, merely to alter the language.
Fitzherbert speaks again of ‘the seed of discretion’ in the Book of
Surveying, c. 39.
=12.= 8. _strykes in other places_] two Northerne strikes. And as
the measure Northward is greater, so are their Akers larger.
13. _quarter_] quarter, or halfe a seame.
31. _Christmasse_] Christmas, as for the most part Northward, or
generally vpon fat clay grounds.
=13.= 7. _landes_] land and the balke.
18. _sprot-barleye_] sport-Barley. So also in l. 19.
28. _lyke pecke-whete_] like to an eare of Wheate.
40. I. R. adds--“but how so euer the season of the yeare is, that
Barley naturally of it selfe is a withered, deepe, yellow Corne,
that yeldeth much bran, & but litle flower. Barley for the most
part chiefly in clay grounds would be sown vnder furrow, that is, a
cast or two about the Land, then ploughed, then sowne agayne, and
so harrowed.”
=14.= 15. I. R. adds--“These are for the most barranest Heath or
forrest ground that may be, as in Darbishiere, where they call them
Skeyggs, and not Oates.”
*** After section =14=, I. R. introduces section =34=, to bring
all the kinds of sowing together.
=15.= This is section =17= in the edition of 1598.
7. _moche_] bigge (which is a gloss). So also in l. 24.
8. _shotes_] flores. But this can hardly be right. See below.
11. _slote_] slope. But this can hardly be right. It is clear that
the right word is _slote_, with the sense of ‘cross-bar,’ the
_bulls_ being the thicker bars of the harrow.
13. _withe_] withy.
24. _sloted and tinded_] floted and tyned.
27. _about Ryppon_] in Notinghamshire and more Northward.
28. _bulder-stones_] bolder-stones. Also spelt _bulder-stones_ in
the Book on Surveying, c. 40.
41. _hombers_] humbers. _withed_] writhed.
42. _tresses_] traces (in both places).
50. _after a shoure_, &c.] with great roles of wood, which
_Virgill_ much commends, and doubtless is very good after a shower
of raine, to make the ground euen to mow. And note that the dryer
your Lands be when you clot them, the sooner wil your clots break,
and the more mold you shall haue.
=16.= 3. _for whete, &c._] on which fallowes the next yeare
following, you shall sow your Rye, Wheat and Barly.
24. _stere_] stirre (which is a later form).
35. I. R. adds--“To fallow withall, sixe Oxen, or sixe Horses are
no more then sufficient.”
=17.= 29. I. R. adds--“Also let not your heapes stand too long ere
they be spread, for if they doo, the goodnesse of your manure,
chiefely if it take a shower of raine, will runne into the ground
where the heape stands, and the rest when it is spread will little
profit.”
29-35. I. R. makes a new section of this, headed “Chapter 20. Of
the diuers kindes of Manure, and which is the best.” It is as
follows.
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