The Book of Husbandry
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- BOOK OF HUSBANDRY.
- CONTENTS.
- INTRODUCTION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- ERRATA.
- The aucthors prologue.
- ¶ The table.
- The Book of Husbandry
- 1. ¶ Here begynneth the boke of husbandry, and fyrste where-by husbande-men do lyue.
- 2. ¶ Dyuers maners of plowes.
- 3. ¶ To knowe the names of all the partes of the plowe.
- 4. ¶ The temprynge of plowes.
- 5. ¶ The necessary thynges that belonge to a ploughe, carte, and wayne.
- 6. ¶ Whether is better, a plough of horses or a plough of oxen.
- 7. ¶ The dylygence and attendaunce that a husbande shulde gyue to his warke, in maner of an other prologue, and the speciall grounde of all this treatyse.
- 8. ¶ Howe a man shulde plowe all maner of landes all tymes of the yere.
- 9. ¶ To plowe for pease and beanes.
- 10. Howe to sowe bothe pease and beanes.
- 11. ¶ Sede of discretion.
- 12. ¶ Howe all maner corne shoulde be sowen.
- 13. ¶ To sowe barley.
- 14. To sowe otes.
- 15. ¶ To harowe all maner of cornes.
- 16. ¶ To falowe.
- 17. ¶ To cary out donge or mucke and to sprede it.
- 18. ¶ To set out the shepe-folde.
- 19. ¶ To cary wodde and other necessaryes.
- 20. ¶ To knowe dyuers maner of wedes.
- 21. ¶ Howe to wede corne.
- 22. ¶ The fyrst sturrynge.
- 23. ¶ To mowe grasse.
- 24. ¶ Howe forkes and rakes shulde be made.
- 25. ¶ To tedde and make hay.
- 26. ¶ Howe rye shulde be shorne.
- 27. ¶ Howe to shere wheate.
- 28. To mowe or shere barley and otes.
- 29. ¶ To repe or mowe pees and beanes.
- 30. ¶ Howe all maner of cornes shulde be tythed.
- 31. ¶ Howe all maner of corne shulde he couered.
- 32. ¶ To lode corne, and mowe it.
- 33. ¶ The second[25] sturrynge.
- 34. To sowe wheat and rye.
- 35. ¶ To thresshe and wynowe corne.
- 36. ¶ To seuer pees, beanes, and fytches.
- 37. ¶ Of shepe, and what tyme of the yere the rammes shulde be put to the ewes.
- 38. ¶ To make an ewe to loue her lambe.
- 39. ¶ What tyme lambes shulde be wayned.
- 40. ¶ To drawe shepe, and seuer them in dyuers places.
- 41. ¶ To belte shepe.
- 42. ¶ To grease shepe.
- 43. ¶ To medle terre.
- 44. ¶ To make brome salue.
- 45. ¶ If a shepe haue mathes.
- 46. ¶ Blyndenes of shepe, and other dyseases, and remedies therfore.
- 47. ¶ The worme in the shepes fote, and helpe therfore.
- 48. ¶ The blode, and remedy if one come betyme.
- 49. ¶ The pockes, and remedy therfore.
- 50. ¶ The wode euyll, and remedy therfore.
- 51. ¶ To washe shepe.
- 52. ¶ To shere shepe.
- 53. ¶ To drawe and seuer the badde shepe from the good.
- 54. What thynges rotteth shepe.
- 55. ¶ To knowe a rotten shepe dyuers maner wayes, wherof some of them wyll not fayle.
- 56. ¶ To bye leane cattell.
- 57. ¶ To bye fatte cattell.
- 58. ¶ Dyuers sycnesses of cattell, and remedies therfore, and fyrst of murren.
- 59. ¶ Longe sought, and remedy therefore.
- 60. ¶ Dewbolne,[28] and the harde remedy therfore.
- 61. ¶ Rysen vpon, and the remedy therfore.
- 62. The turne, and remedy therfor.
- 63. The warrybrede, and the remedy therfore.
- 64. ¶ The foule, and the remedy therfore.
- 65. ¶ The goute, without remedy.
- 66. ¶ To rere calues.
- 67. To gelde calues.
- 68. ¶ Horses and mares to drawe.
- 69. The losse of a lambe, a calfe, or a foole.
- 70. ¶ What cattell shulde go to-gether in one pasture.
- 71. ¶ The properties of horses.
- 72. ¶ The two properties, that a horse hath of a man.
- 73. The .ii. propertyes of a bauson.
- 74. The .iiii. properties of a lyon.
- 75. The .ix. propertyes of an oxe.
- 76. The .ix. propertyes of an hare.
- 77. The .ix. propertyes of a foxe.
- 78. The .ix. propertyes of an asse.
- 79. The .x. properties of a woman.
- 80. ¶ The diseases and sorance of horses.
- 81. The lampas.
- 82. The barbes.
- 83. Mournynge of the tonge.
- 84. Pursy.
- 85. Broken-wynded.
- 86. Glaunders.
- 87. Mournynge on the chyne.
- 88. Stranguellyon.
- 89. The hawe.
- 90. Blyndnes.
- 91. Viues.
- 92. The cordes.
- 93. The farcyon.
- 94. A malander.
- 95. A selander.
- 96. A serewe.
- 97. A splent.
- 98. A ryngbone.
- 99. Wynd-galles.
- 100. Morfounde.
- 101. The coltes euyll.
- 102. The bottes.
- 103. The wormes.
- 104. Affreyd.
- 105. Nauylgall.
- 106. A spauen.
- 107. A courbe.
- 108. The stringe-halte.
- 109. Enterfyre.
- 110. Myllettes.
- 111. The peynes.
- 112. Cratches.
- 113. Atteynt.
- 114. Grauelynge.
- 115. A-cloyed.
- 116. The scabbe.
- 117. Lowsy.
- 118. Wartes.
- 119. The sayinge of the frenche-man.
- 120. ¶ The diuersitie bytwene a horse-mayster, a corser, and a horse-leche.
- 121. ¶ Of swyne.
- 122. Of bees.
- 123. ¶ Howe to kepe beastes and other cattell.
- 124. ¶ To get settes and set them.
- 125. ¶ To make a dyche.
- 126. ¶ To make a hedge.
- 127. ¶ To plasshe or pleche a hedge.
- 128. ¶ To mende a hye-waye.
- 129. ¶ To remoue and set trees.
- 130. ¶ Trees to be set without rotes and growe.
- 131. ¶ To fell wodde for housholde, or to sell.
- 132. ¶ To shrede, lop, or croppe trees.
- 133. ¶ Howe a man shoulde shrede, loppe, or croppe trees.
- 134. ¶ To sell woode or tymber.
- 135. ¶ To kepe sprynge-wodde.
- 136. ¶ Necessary thynges belongynge to graffynge.
- 137. ¶ What fruite shuld be fyrste graffed.
- 138. ¶ Howe to graffe.
- 139. ¶ To graffe bytwene the barke and the tree.
- 140. ¶ To nourishe all maner of stone fruite, and nuttes.
- 141. ¶ A shorte information for a yonge gentyl-man, that entendeth to thryue.
- 142. ¶ A lesson made in Englisshe verses, to teache a gentylmans seruaunt, to saye at euery tyme whan he taketh his horse, for his remembraunce, that he shall not forget his gere in his inne behynde hym.
- 143. ¶ A prologue for the wyues occupation.
- 144. ¶ A lesson for the wyfe.
- 145. ¶ What thynges the wyfe is bounden of ryght to do.
- 146. ¶ What warkes a wyfe shulde do in generall.
- 147. ¶ To kepe measure in spendynge.
- 148. ¶ To eate within the tedure.
- 149. ¶ A shorte lesson for the husbande.
- 150. ¶ How men of hye degree do kepe measure.
- 151. ¶ Prodigalite in outragious and costely aray.
- 152. ¶ Of delycyouse meates and drynkes.
- 153. ¶ Of outragious playe and game.
- 154. ¶ A prologue of the thyrde sayinge of the philosopher.
- 155. ¶ A diuersitie betwene predication and doctrine.
- 156. ¶ What is rychesse.
- 157. ¶ What is the propertie of a riche man.
- 158. ¶ What ioyes or pleasures are in heuen.
- 159. ¶ What thynges pleaseth god most.
- 160. ¶ What be goddes commaundementes.
- 161. ¶ Howe a man shulde loue god and please hym.
- 162. ¶ Howe a man shulde loue his neyghbour.
- 163. ¶ Of prayer that pleaseth god very moche.
- 164. ¶ What thynge letteth prayer.
- 165. ¶ Howe a man shulde praye.
- 166. A meane to put away ydle thoughtes in prayinge.
- 167. ¶ A meane to auoyde temptation.
- 168. ¶ Almes-dedes pleaseth god moche.
- 169. ¶ The fyrste maner of almes.
- 170. ¶ The seconde maner of almes.
- 171. ¶ The thyrde maner of almes.
- 172. ¶ What is the greattest offence that a manne may doo and offende god in.
- ¶ The Auctour.
- FOOTNOTES:
- NOTES.
- FOOTNOTES:
- GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
- [Pg vii]
- [viii]
- [ix]
- [x]
- [xi]
- [xii]
- [xiii]
- [xiv]
- [xv]
- [xvi]
- [xvii]
- [xviii]
- [xix]
- [xx]
- [xxi]
- [xxii]
- [xxiii]
- [xxiv]
- [xxv]
- [xxvi]
- [xxvii]
- [xxviii]
- [xxix]
- [xxx]
- [Pg 1]
- [2]
- [3]
- [4]
- [5]
- [6]
- [7]
- [8]
- [9]
- [10]
- [14]
- [16]
- [20]
- [21]
- [25]
- [27]
- [28]
- [30]
- [31]
- [32]
- [34]
- [35]
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- [40]
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- [111]
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- [113]
- [115]
- [116]
- [118]
- [119]
- [123]
- [125]
- [126]
- [127]
- [128]
- [129]
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- [131]
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- [133]
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