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A07301 A nevv instuction [sic] of plowing and setting of corne, handled in manner of a dialogue betweene a ploughman and a scholler Wherein is proued plainely that plowing and setting, is much more profitable and lesse chargeable, than plowing and sowing. By Edvvard Maxey. Gent. Maxey, Edward, Gent. 1601 (1601) STC 17695; ESTC S113159 23,101 35

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such as you would be Ploughman Sir I wonder what you meane to talke still so idlie as though it were fit for me or any man to set our whole seasons when we haue laide all our soile and bestowed all our labour tillage and cost vpon the third part onely to the intent to make that so hartie and rich that by all reason common experience and Gods blessing it may yeeld as much and more increase than the whole would haue done Neither am I tied by any necessitie that I know of to set all my third part vnsesse I may doe it conuenientlie in all respects Note well for when I haue thus plowed my land and made it readie to set I may sowe thereof what I will if I lacke setters and it is likelie to beare three times as much being thus well handled as other poore barren land so misused for lacke of such good Husbandrie But now for setting of ten Acres of Wheate or Rie or other graine being the third part of most mens Season why should I not finde people enow to set them seeing you confesse that threescore laborers and twentie women and children will digge and set thirtie Acres in seuen weekes Why good sir if I be at the charge and can dresse my land with my Plough my selfe what haue I to doe with your threescore labourers that should haue been imployed in your digging I will spare them all for you seeing you will needes haue so many Acres digged for you might as well haue vnderstoode Master Plat the author of the first booke that he meant not to haue the whole number of euery mans season to be digged when he proposed that three Acres might beare as much as thirtie And although I am of your opinion this will seldome proue true in action yet cannot you nor the best Scholler in England disproue the principles that he grounds his proportion vpon for he addes diuers approued examples in practise to proue his arguments And for your twentie women and children poore people I am sorrie for the most of them may still want worke and liue a staruing kinde of miserable life for by your perswasions they should earne iust nothing and so none of the poore by this meanes set to worke in your Husbandrie Well yet I will propose lesse worke by the third part in my Husbandrie and so will haue but the third part of your women and children Note which being but seuen will set my ten Acres in seuen weekes whilest your threescore diggers and twentie women and children be digging and setting your thirtie Acres in the same time by your owne account and by Gods helpe if this third part of the land be imployed we shall haue worke sufficient for all our poore people and poore people enow for all our worke I will therefore spare you foure or fiue of those seuen poore people for a supplie to your companie least any should happen to faile in some hot skirmish and then I shall onely be troubled with some two or three of your poore people or some lame Souldier Prouision for lame and maimed Souldiers he will serue my turne though he want a legge or an arme and so let vs recken the charge of three poore women and children which will be hired for eighteene pence a day at most which is but nine shillings Charges of setting a weeke and for seuen weekes is three poundes three shillings for the wages of those poore people vnto whom I will ioyne our two plow-folkes for away goe our Teemes to rest and gather flesh against winter our Wiues will spare one of their maides and many of vs haue two or three children and our selues for ouer-seers of the worke all these are aboue nine persons for your seuen and all their charges is but three poundes three shillings more than ordinarie Ten Acres as soone plowed and set with seuen people as thirtie digged and set with soure score and so you see that two or three poore people at most with our owne familie shall be as well able to set our ten Acres in seuen weekes as your fourescore men women and children shall digge and set thirtie Acres in the very same time But if you thinke that Wheate or Rie will be set in the beginning of March in rich land as you say in your booke and truly I am of your opinion and the rather because you affirme that the best croppe of Corne that euer you saw was a sommer croppe of Wheate vpon a rich ground now it will be a great commoditie if we may stay to set our richest land vntill after Christide for by some meanes or other we may by that time make some of our land better than other and the nature of some land of it selfe is much better than other then will we set our poorest land first and begin about the middle of September or neere thereupon euery Countrie and place as the condition of the land requireth and so continue setting in the fairest weather vntill the middle of December or there abouts so then we shall haue some thirteene weeks at least before Christide and some seuen weekes after before March It is most certaine that this late setting or sowing being in very good ground is the best to auoide the Mildew and the smut Thus a poore Farmer may well set ten Acres in twentie weekes with his owne familie hauing wife and children as most haue and doe it all by leasure Scholler I must needes confesse that your experience Your mislike or writing will not hinder if it proue profitable hath taught you to say more in this matter than I conceiued of it before But yet seeing you looke for no more increase than sixe or eight quarters vpon an Acre it is not the admirable arte the first booke speakes of which made me mislike and write as I did for many men in diuers places haue had the like increase neither doe I yet perceiue how the charges of setting will be answered nor any matter worthie so great account as you make of it Ploughman What you see I know not or what the cause should be I cannot tell that so many men should be so blinde or so vnwilling to see how to doe themselues and their neighbours so much good but I feare me it is the iust punishment of God vpon vs the sinfull people of this good Land that we hauing so great plentie of all good things do consume with gluttonie and with drunkennesse so great blessings of God alreadie bestowed vpon vs A caueat for gluttons and drunkards and if we should by this meanes or any other expect a greater aboundance than yet we haue receiued it is to be feared that the Lord that seeth how wickedlie we would consume it will not permit such an vnthankfull people to receiue so exceeding great a benefit but euen by our owne frowardnes will quite ouerthrow it Take heede of murmuring and