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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09179	The vale mans table	Payne, Robert, fl. 1589.	1583 (1583)	STC 19491.5; ESTC S4409	5,871	1

The Vale Mans Table ¶ Herein is taught euen for the capacity of the meanest howe to draine Moores al other wet grounds or bogges and lay them dry for euer Howe to measure without an instrument any roufe grounde woode or water that you cannot come into Also here is annexed the compasse and the scale with part of the vse of the sayde compasse and the computation of yeares from VVilliam the Conqueror TO THE READER WHereas diuers ignoraunt in Arethmaticke and Geomatrie thinke it a hard thing to describe that smal worke of mine intituled the Terrar which I set foorth the last yeare 1582. And the rules thereof so hard that they cannot be learned without tedious trauel Truely gentle Reader were it not for the obscure words of Art they were most pleasant easie And for proofe thereof if thou canst but reade I haue appointed one whome you may hear off at the signe of the Lamb near Clemēts Inne who shall teach thee so much Arethmaticke and Geomitry in one day hauing a good capasity as shall describe the sayde Terrar the Map of a Country or any such like worke with the vse of the scale And also he will teach thee any thing mentioned in it to be taught with as much expedition as thou wouldest wishe Condemn me not before thou hast tried me then report as thou findest me I know some that would haue none cunning but them selues who would make mountaynes of their mould hilles Such will smoothly laugh me to scorne But I trust the modest minded by proofe will be witnesses of my truth And as touching the rest of the twentye and fiue deuises which I offer to teach in the sayd Terrar I promise thee there is not one amongst them all but is as easie to be learned as any of the workes herein described VVherefore let not wordes of Art dismay thee nor those that would haue all men ignorant but them selues discourage thee but lay hold on slip pery time which once mispent may no way be reuolked And consider with the Ant that sommer haruest wil prouide both foode and fyer for winter cold And thus fare well in Christ From Paines End the 16. of Nouember 1583. VVhereas the sayd Terrar was solde for two shillinges six pence contrary to the Aucthours minde from hence foorth they shall be sold by retaile for sixe pence a peece you maye haue them at my Printers How to 〈…〉 ●●auel of any 〈…〉 at is de 〈…〉 in the making of ponds vpon high dry groūds by me already published in print VVhich skill is needefull for them that will drayne bogs and weate groundes for the better finding of the most conuenient currant to conuay the water away It is learned with twice reading ouer of tenne lines The compasse Note that this figure is set in moste Maps to describe the windes viz. The North south East and VVest quarters with their parts The North point marked with the flower Deluse commonly standing with the face or vpper part of the Mappe So by this compasse to any worke annexed you may know how it lieth remembring that the point marked with the flower Deluce standeth North. Then tourning your face with that point you shall looke into the North. So is your back South your right hand East and your left hand VVest THE cankred Carle in fertil soyle which doth much ground possesse And suffereth not the Plough-mans toile his lande to take and dresse Nor yet himselfe conuert the same vnto his Countries vse Deserueth well the shamefull name of common-weales abuse And to a Dog I him compare that in the Manger lies Which labouring Stead from prouen share by barking he denies Yet will not eate of that himselfe whereof poore Stead is glad Such members vile in common wealth were better lost then had To draine wet grounds First draw a straite ditch one foote deepe and foure inches broad in the most conuenient place of your ground Then draw from your straite ditch two pearch a sunder slope drayners as this figure doth represent Dig them one foot deepe at the least and one foote broad in the bottome and not aboue two inches broade at the top so will the top close vp againe and the bottome will be hollow wherin the water will soake into the straite ditch which ditch you must fill with stones or great grauell and so must you fill fiue foote of the endes of the sloape drainers next to the straite diche and if stones be plentie to fill the drainers throughout vvith stones is best VVhere you fil them with stones you may couer them with thick turff and make it playn so shal you lose no ground The charges for 10. Acres is but 26. shil 8. pence besides carriages vvhich charges the earth that you cast out of the ditch and drayners being wel spred wil counteruail for the manuring of the ground To draine Bogs In the firme ground within two yardes of the bog draw a ditch from the highest part a long by the bogs side as the currant goeth and continue your ditch vntill it commeth out at naught as here is debscribed Make your ditch as narrow as you can dig it one foote lower then the spring which feedeth the bog Then fill your ditch two foot thicke with stones and vpon the stones throw in the earth and couer the top with turffe which you digged out of the ditch so shall you spoyle no ground and the water which was the cause of the Bogge wil alter his course and runne in the ditch among the stones and in short time the Bogge will sinke and prooue firme and very fruiteful ground How to measure a wood and not to come into it Drawe adioyning to the water or wood whereof you would knovv the contents either a square a long square or a triangle such as you may most cōueniently include your desired piece into Then measure the vvhole plat and from the contents therof deduct the ouerplus as for example in this long square herafter described The vvhol contents is 60. Acres vvherof you must deduct 3. acres for the long square at the East end 5 Acres for the right triangle on the Southvvest part and 14. for the blunt triangle on the North side So testeth for the contentes of the vvood 38. Acres The perfect vse of the scale may be learned by him that can not reade hauing a good capacity in the space of 3. houres yet by it are most straunge vvorkes done vvhich to the ignorant seeme vnpossible It is necessary that it be taught by demonstrations for a little shewing in this cause is a great deale better then much reading The Scale   20   60   100 A Computation of yeares from William the Conquerour Wherein you may finde the year of our Lord the Dominicall letter the leape yeare the names of the Kings successiuely vvhat day they began hovv long they did raigne vvith the daies of their deathes The dates of Recordes or euidence and