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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

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

heart with their poore cattell and themselues I shall not onely thinke my labour happely bestowed in writing but all the poore people may thank God as much for the printing of it as for any booke set foorth in our time for a matter of this qualitie and which is of no small importance for the common-wealth of this land But yet I must not yeeld that plowing and sowing will be of like profit for the common-wealth as plowing and setting seeing the same will be done yet with much lesse charge comparing tenne acres of the best land set with other tenne as good sowed which I will prooue by example and tried experience and first it is wel knowne by often triall that lesse then halfe a bushel of very choise seede wheate will set as much land as three bushels will sowe So that whereas ten or twelue great Acres of land will require some three or foure quarters to sowe them the same land may be set with sixe or seuen bushels at the most for there will be faued some three quarters of the best seede Corne euery yeere which is now worth fortie shillings a quarter and commeth to sixe poundes and exceedeth the extraordinarie charge of setting aforesaid by much Fiue or sixe thousand quarters of Graine saued euery yeare by Corne setting all obiections answered and will amount to the sauing of some three hundred thousand quarters of the best Wheate and Rie growing in this Land and much more in Barlie Pease and Beanes and so of all sorts of graine I thinke it would saue aboue fiue or sixe hundred thousand quarters euery yeere in her Maiesties Dominions And yet giue mee leaue to tell you Gentleman that I dare confidently auow seeing both reason doth teach and experience doth proue that an Acre orderly set will yeeld more increase by some three quarters than an Acre sowne which increase at Haruest being added to the other three quarters saued at seede time commeth to some sixe quarters of Corne at fortie shillings a quarter twelue pound as it is now worth in many Countries which will defray the charges of setting double though your Plowmen follow their Teemes giue vs no help And yet this I must confesse that in time of great plentie when Corne is at a low price and where chargeable seruants or labourers dwell Chargeable seruants and ill workemen a great hinderance to all good Husbandire that will not serue or worke vnder fiue pound and a fustian doublet or in such places where their land and themselues are so rich with such times places and persons this poore booke or rather booke for the poore hath yet little to say vntil such time as they be brought to consider that after great plentie may follow as great scarsitie the wealthiest Corne-master and stoutest labourer or seruant may in time become like one of their poorest neighbours Great men in this and all ages haue been subiect to their fall Lasie vsurie a capitall enemie to all industrious husbandrie lewes onely did vse it in England about the raigne of King Richard the first anno 1189. Iob. 1.1 1. Pet. 4.7 Iob was accounted as rich in his time as the greatest Corne-master or the wealthiest Vsurer that liues in our time yet the Lord made an example of his seruant Iob to all posteritie albeit hee was an vpright and iust man one that feared God and eschued euil If vengeance begin at the house of God where shall the wicked and vngodly appeare I write not this against good minded men whom it hath pleased God to blesse with plentie of Corne and yet loue their brethren and poore neighbours some such good men no doubt haue been and yet are in England who may be accounted patterns for others to followe or patrons that is fathers to their Countrie by storing vp Corne in the time of plentie with purpose to bring it forth in scarcitie to sell it at a lower rate for the good of the poore Such good men no doubt are to be praised with gracious Ioseph The murmuring of the people prouoketh Gods wrath who by laying vp of Corne in the time of plenty preserued not only the whole kingdome of Aegypt but also the whole Church of God then visible on earth for which cause his industrie is recorded and commended for the instruction of all posteritie And by the way I wish all murmuring people to consider what it is to grudge and repine against Gods works and to be more aduised how they speake against good Magistrates and such good men as carefullie respect the publike weale of the Land Exod. 16.2 Numb 11.13 Furthermore that it may yet appeare more manifestly that plowing and setting of Corne is euery way much more profitable and lesse chargeable than plowing and sowing and that euerie Farmer may easilie set the third part of his land with his owne familie and two or three of the poorest people only at setting time whereby he may yet haue more leasure to practise and performe euerie complement that shall be likelie to further his increase let him Tyll but the third part of his land as of thirtie Acres ten and so whereas he was wont to giue his thirtie Acres vpon a sommer fallow some foure or fiue plowings as some grounds will require and as most good Husbands doe for thereby they doe kill the weedes which of all things I would all men should most speciallie regard So then thirtie Acres hauing at least foure plowings amounteth to an hundred and twentie daies worke at the least and ten Acres hauing fiue plowings euerie Acre which is but fiftie daies worke at the most so here is threescore and ten daies worke spared in your winter season for Wheate or Rie and as much for Barlie which being in all one hundred and twentie daies worke or there about is very neere the third part of the whole yeere spared for your Plowes and Teemes The third part of the yeere spared from plowing by setting of corne therefore forget not therein to forue God which I wish should be otherwise imployed to some good worke as no doubt but euerie good Husband will finde worke enough for them to do But yet let them bestowe some part of this time so well gained a little to serue God in prayer morning and euening either in their priuat families or with a diligent Minister they that dwel neere the Church one halfe houre in a morning or euening or both if they haue any thing to doe at Church with God or with their neighbours it will be a good meeting place if it be done to good purposes It is a small portion of so many daies spared and no doubt but God will the rather blesse the increase of such as will serue him according as he hath promised and as the Scripture saith Paul planteth Apollo watereth but it is the Lord no doubt that giueth the increase as well in temporall as in spirituall blessings Beware