remedies against the biting of maddogs and helpe for mangie dogs ACh in hogs heads to helpe 278 A corns to feed hogs 262 Aristotles saying 277 B BIting of a mad dog to helpe Biting of hogs Biting another 280 Bores one sufficient forx sowes Bloud letting in hogs Brimming of Sowes C Catarre to helpe 272 Choosing of hogs Couering Sowes 260. D Dogges are necessarie and also hurtfull Dissines in hogs Of mad dogs Dogs mange to helpe E ELme leaues are good for hogs 279 F FAtting with what meat 270 Feuer in hogs to helpe 265 Feeding a hog fat 268 Feeding a bore best 273 Feeding a hog for larde Figure how best to 〈◊〉 a hog Flowing of the gall G GAll flowing to heale Garget in hogs to helpe 271 Gelding of pigs Gelding of hogs 264 Gouernment of hogges H HEarbes ill for hogs Hearbes good for hogs 271 Hearbes to coole them in sommer 279 Hole footed hogs Hogs being sicke to know 278 Hogs sicke to helpe 270 Hogheard to be watchfull 263 Henbane 279 Hogs grease to harden Hogs to stower 280 I IMpostumations vnder the throat to heale 265 L LAske in hogs to stop 271 Leannes by sickenes in hogs to helpe 266 Littargie in hogs to helpe 266 Lice to kill in hogs 280 M MAggots to kill Mangie in dogs to helpe Marking your pigs 293 Mezell in hogs to helpe Mezell to saue them from it 273 Mezell to helpe another 267 Mezell to preserue hogs 279 Mezell to helpe another way 268 Mezell to helpe another 269 Mezell thinges euil for it 277 Mezell and causes thereof 269 Milt pained to helpe 271 Mustard ill for hogs 270 Milt pained to helpe 267 Mice in hogsties to kill 270 Moules to take P PEstilent feuer to helpe 272 Pigs weaning Pigs how to marke Prouerbe of the hogs goodnes Pigs winter pigs 278 Poxe in hogs to helge R RAmmish pigs Remedies against the bitting of mad dogs Ringing of hogs 273 Ringing double 275 Rootes good for hogs 261 S SIcke hogs to helpe 271 Signes after the biting of a mad dog Sowes good breeders 264 Sowes going with pig 264 Sowes when to brim Sowes vnnaturall 267 Spaied Sowes 260 The spaing of a Sow Sowes great with pig how to keep 263 Staggers in hogs for to helpe 277 Styes for your hogs Stying your hogs 262 T TOunges of mad dogs are venemous V VEnome taken by meates Vomit to stay in hogs 266 Vomit to prouoke in hogs 266 FINIS L. M. Buying oxen and his properties Flies wormes and tykes to take awaie Taming a bul To yoke a young oxe VVeary oxen â—oking vnequall VVater in the bellie Columella Vomit to help Medicine against the pestilence Trenches Fluxe of the â—elliâ— Fluxe of blood Byles Stiffenesse of sinewes To knit sinews Hoofe cho 〈…〉 Haw in the eie Stroke in the eie Eies inflamed Watry eyes Webbe in the eye Quod Willis Horse gelt or Bull. A kind of gelding The labouring Oxe Bul te labour Kine put to the bull To gelde calues Kine to labor Gelt of calues Husbandmen to haue alwaies ready Against the laske Against the bloudy fluxe For an old cough For the kibe in the heeles Oxe feet neere worne Scabbes in the feet A common medicine for all cattell Couering mares Gouernment of the mare with fole Mares for male female Tokens of a good colt Chafing his body Drinke or meat paine in the head Drinkes for horses Mare with sole Cough Pushes and blisters All sores chafes Pestilence in mares Mares in a rage Hot stallionâ— Beauty of moyles Couering of young mares Place to couer Horse without braines Hot feet or hoofe The horse cart and harnaise to see to Prouerbe Preparing the cart Belles on the horse Feuer Pastornes freted Leannesse in a horse Weary and chafed Hoofe bond or mate long Stiffeling 〈◊〉 horse Sprainde Stiffle in the heele Farcie or Fashion Horse cannot stale Haw in the eie The viues in horses Quincie Signes of sicâ—nesse To stanch blood Bloud to be let in horses The poll 〈…〉 Broken winde to helpe Glaunders in Horse Mourning of the chine Strangury in horse the haw The Frounce to helpe Splint to help Bots in horses Long wormes 〈◊〉 drinks Malender in a horse windgall Selander in a horse The spauin in horses Soft Spauin Curbe in a horse Paines of feet Foundring in the feet Graueling a horse Enterfering of a horse the colt euil Lyce on horses Taint in a horse Cloying a horse Surbating a horse Blindnes in horses the pin and web in the eye Bistula in horse Fistula in the head Lampas in a horse Pissing bloud Horse venomed Water not good for horse Pestilence in horses Yellowes in a horse Coltes pained in the gummes and teeth Feuer in colts Faintnesse and weakenesse Of too muche heat in a horse Barbes in a horse Itch in the cayle Folling of coltes Shoing of horse Faring the hoofe Shoyng the fore feete Nayles to be made Paring shoing the great hoofe Paring the rough brittle hoofe To shoe aloÌ„g hoofe To pare a croked hoofe To pare the flatte hoofe the hollow hoofe the broade frushe the hoofe with narrows heeles Shoing the binder feete Shoing with a false quarter Shoing for enterfeering Paring the hoof bound An ointment for the hoofe Couering the Mare For the scabbe swelling or straine Crackes paines Sight to recouer Malt wormes to helpe Cratches to heale Coddes inflamed For a pricke with a naile Loose hoofe â—ies blinde The stone in the Pastrone The Camery to helpe trenches to helpe Swelling to helpe Spaide Coltes and Geldings Mourning of the chine Another for the chine Chaffe to feed Horse For naile yron or stubbe Colour of horse of best proofe Third booke of georgicks Rams estemed Ramâ—to correct Thornes or scratches Putting the Ramme Male lambes Female lambs To alter thyâ— flocke to breede to nourish sheepe Lambing time Pasture grouÌ„d Drinke Rimes or gellie A Shephearde to gouerne Strange sheep Meate for sheepe Wash sheepe In Deuonshire they neaer washe their sheepe when they clip but after wash the wooll before they spin it in warme lie and drieth it on hurdles Shearing Nointing or greasing Medicines Sicknes or pestilence Scabbe Medicines for itch Broome Salue for the scabbe Magots to kill Seabbe Feuer or red water The worme in the claw Gall in the foot Worme in the claw Lunges sicke Wilde fire Of choler in sheepe Iaundise Fleame Broken bones Hearbes ill for sheepe Short breath or purcy Glanders or sneuell Lambes sicke Scab on the chin Lambes scabby â—cabbes on the mousell of sheepe Wooll to come againe Of tarre and his nature The cough Blood in sheep Cough or morfound Haw in the eye Blindnesse in sheepe Water in sheep The worme vnder the horne Blood on sheep Bladder in the head To tag or belr sheepe Dogs for shepheards Scabbe to perceiue in sheepe Pockes of sheepe The wood euil or crampe Maggots in sheepe Yeawes to loue their lambes Poyson of sheepe Yeaning time Weake lambs new yeaned Easie deliuerance Loose teeth to increase milke Herbs holsom Weaning lambes Lambes weaned To make the yeaw to loue her lambe to deuide or draw sheep Foldes for sheepe To put the Rammes to yeawes A yeaw with lambe The leafe in lambes Against loose teeth Rotters of sheepe Grasse among fallowes Aristotles precepts Lambes Lamming time Black Lambes Water in the belly To kill lice stopping the tets Water bladder in sheepe Clo ueu pefill Goat bucke waxe soone old Of diseases in goates as pestilence and such like The stopping of the tets Choosing of hogges A Bore is sufficient for ten sowes Couering 〈…〉 es Sowes go with pig 16. weeks Gelding pigs spaied Sowes Rootes good for hogs Akornes kept Stying your hogges Hogheard watchfull Sowes with pigge Marking yourâ— pigges sowes good breeders Gelding of hogs Feuer in hogs Impostume vnder the throat Against vomit Of a leannesse in hogges Litargie in hogges To vomit Milt pained Sowes vnnat 〈…〉 rall To feede a hog fatte Measeld hogs to helpe To saue them from measeld Cause of measelry Mustard is ill for hogs Fatting a hog Mice in the flie Hogs sicke by ill hearbes cating Laske to stop Hearbes good for hogs The garget in a hog Sicke hogs to know Disease of the milt Pestilent feuer Catar in hogs Flowing of the gall Measell to help To feed a bore best Ringing of hogs Prouerbe The double ring To feed a hog for larde Measeld to help Ill for measels Staggars Aristotles sayings Winter pigs Diseases in hogs Ache in their heales Mistrisse Risley Cold hearbes in sommer Elme leaues for hogs Henbane Hogs grease Measeld to helpe Hogs to scoure Lice to kill Hogge bitten Gelding 〈◊〉 Bore Feeding of hogs in styes Let blood
Sommer but chiefly by pouertie in Winter also they say if a cleane bore doe brimme a meazell sow he shal become meazell so like wise a cleane sow being brimde with a mexell Bore she shall likewise become meazel and all those piggs The best time to kil a mezel bore or hog is after the changes of the moone For then the curnils wil shew smallest Also they do feede hogges in some part of this Realme very fatte onely with figge dust of Dates which will feede them in shorte space some doe mixe it with warme water some with whay and some doe seeth it with water and make it thicke like a groute and in other places husbandes doe fatte their hogs whereas scant of feeding is with pease and they reserue in leasing their corne after haruest all the charse darnell and cockell which they seeth in water and make it thicke so feede them therewith Thus yee maie make in 14. daies good bakō of two ynches and more thick of fat Also there is to be noted as some good husbandes saie if ye doe fatte your hogges in a closure abroade without housing it wil be long eare they waxe fatte for when a raine doth come it doeth greatly annoye them and hinder their fatting for if a hogge lye not drie and warme and also quiet he will not bee fatte in a long season Therefore when yee doe intende for to fatte hogges put not past two or three at once together in the stye for when yee put many together one fighteth with another both at meate and in lying which wil hinder their fatting And also to keepe them as darke in the stie as ye can For whē a hog may sée abrode he wil remēber lōg for pasture and is desirous to séeke for wormes and rootes which wil also hinder their feding Thus much here for the feeding ordering or fatting hogs in the sties A good waie to fatte hogges after the maner of Duchland YE shall put your hogges into the house and keepe them hungry at the first Then take the rootes of turnepes boyle them in whay if yee can If not in water and boile therewith of barley and giue them the rootes a fewe at once with sodde barley among And when your hogges are vsed to them they will eate them as fast as other meate and they wil be assoone fatte with them as anie other graine To helpe the garget in a hogge THe garget is a disease commonly among hogs and as some husbandes doe saie it commeth of ranknes of blood and they commonly haue it in winter as wel as in sommer The best remedy is as aforesaide but some doe counsell it best to slit him two ynches long on both sides of his iawes and then open the skinne a litle on both sides the cuttes and then all to rubbe it with bay salt within vnder the skinne and he will doe well againe If then the flies be busie ye shall lay a little of tarre all ouer thereon and he shal doe well All some husbandes do teache to saue hogs from the saide garget they vse to let them blood at Michaelmas and in Aprill on the baine vnder the vpper lippe For that is the chosen place to helpe hogs if they droupe or wax sick To preserue hogges and saue them from being meazell YE shal mixe with their wash or whay in the moneth of Iune Of chamberlye and madder and so giue thereof vnto your hogges and vse it nowe and then once or twice a wéeke it wil preserue them all that Sommer from being mezel which cause I haue shewed afore If a hogge be bitten of a mad dogge YE shall take of strong chamberlie and mixe it with bay salt soote of the chimney and put therein an addle egg or two then beate them with a sticke altogether and make it boyle a little then rub the place that is bit as hoate as yee maie wel suffer for scalding with a sticke a cloute tide on the end therof Use this twise or thrise and he shal do well And this will helpe likewise for other beasts that are bit with any mad dogs The whole footed hogs THere is also a kinde of hogs in diuers places which hath whole clawes not clouen as other hogs be Which kinde is commonly very large of body bigger commonly than other hogs and the husbandman saith they are more fruitfuller than the hogs with clouen féete wil not lightly be mezeld Therfore they are in many places much desired of rather than the other sort There is of them about Winsor Brimming of Sowes IT is not so good as some hogheards saie for any bore to brim or couer a sow in the night time as in the day for they wil not be so large pigs nor yet like so well as those which are gotten in the day The cause of some Rammish pigs YE shal note if that ye put and stall a bore in any stie if ye put in young pigs into the same sty soone after all those pigs wil taste rammish like a Bore pigge to be eaten To kill Magots IF Magots doe bréede in the eares of hogs after the byting of dogs or by any other occasiō of their bodies or likewise any other beast ye shall take but honye and put it in that place and al the magots there wil dye or els auoyde incontinent if they liue Well proued Another for the same IF magots bréede in the eare of a hog or other beast or in any hollow place vnder the skinne ye shal take the iuice of hemlocke and poure it into the hole and they wil die or auoyde and a rotten egge mixed with the saide iuice wil do the like or the egge alone beaten and powred in and the egg addle is good for the ranckline or venom of some dogs tooth after he hath bitten a beast to annoint with the said egge The stagger or staring disease HOgs wil haue a disease called the stare or Stagger he will réele and fall with his hinder legs oft and wil put his head sometimes ouer his trough in eating his meate if he haue not soone helpe he wil pine and die thereof The remedie ye shall sée a harde knobbe in the roofe of his mouth like a blister cut it and let it bleed then take the powder of lome and salt and rubbe it therewith then giue him a little pisse and so he wil amend To shew some order for the taking of Moules FOrsomuch as I haue heeretofore shewed the order and gouernement of hogs I wil not here let passe but somewhat I wil shew of the taking of moules which is a beast that annoyeth the grounds of husbandmen very muche and hauing the property to dig and cast within the grounde as the other hogs on the grounde thereby they may be called a kind of hogs which may be eaten also These kind be so hurtful to groundes that they will in short space deface and spoyle any
sea onion the poplar root and common salt of ech a like then lay it a while in water then stampe them and so giue it vnto your cattell till they be well Giue it to them in the spring for the space of forty dayes which will preserue them from the plague or all other sicknes for that yeare And if beasts be sick ye shal giue them madder long pepper the barke of a walnut trée with fetherfew stampe these and straine it and giue it with some triacle to drink fasting and they shall do well For sicke beastes that will not feede in pasture or drinke TTake liuerwoort night shade cinckfoyle veruaine egrimony and centory of ech a like boile all these in a quart of good ale then stampe and straine it and put to iii. peniworth of triacle of Iene and milke warme giue theron to your sicke beastes fasting and driue them vp and downe after a good space and they shal do wel To heale a beast cut with a bill TAke turpentine barrow hogs grease hony and tar but the tar mustly next the cloth and boile the other a little and laie it on the cloth then strike it al about with pitch the â—des of the cloth to make it cleaue fast ye may shift it once in two daies and this will heale it For a shéepe ye may lay on a plaister of pitch and it will heale it FINIS ¶ The Table of the principall thinges in this Booke by Alphabet as followeth A AGue in Calues B Barbes vnder the tongue of cattell to helpe 12 Beastes sicke to helpe Belching signes thereof 85 Byles on cattel to heale Byting with a madde dogge 26 Blaine on the tongue to help 38 Blood in Beast 44. 87 Blood pissing to helpe 13 Bloudie fluxe 13 Bones loose thinges good to knit Broken bones thinges good to knit 80 Bruise on the shoulder to helpe 29 Bulles how to make tame 3 Bulles put vnto labour Bull of his forme qualitie 63 C CAlues hauing the laske Calues hauing woormes to helpe 41 Cattell sicke Calues how to breed 49 Calues how to nourish Calues how to reare Cattel to be looked vnto 58 Cattell in pasturing together 69 Cattell how to fodder Charge to the keeper of cattel 51 Closh in the feet to helpe Closh on the neck to heale 27 Collicke in Cattel to helpe 62 Common medicine for cattell Crowling in the guts to helpe 〈◊〉 Costiuenesse in cattel to helpe 16 Cough in a beast to helpe 17 Cut with weapon on a beast 92 Cowes vdder swelled Cowe in make Cow to helpe of the weather Cowe with her forme and qualitie 63 Cow with calfe how to be kept 64 Cow new calued scant of milke to helpe 76 D DRopping nostrels in Cattell to helpe 13 Drinke for cattel 82 Deawbolne in cattell for to helpe 33 Diseases of all sortes to helpe E EDder stinging to helpe Eies grieued to heale 31 Eye hauing the haw Eies stricken to helpe Eies inflamed to helpe Eies watery to helpe Eies hauing the webbe F FAintnes of Oxen that labour 76 Farming of Oxen. Fatting of an Oxe 61 Fatting in the stall 71 Feuer in cattel to helpe 17 Field spider stinging to helpe Flesh superfluous vnder the toÌ„gue Flowing of the gall to helpe 46 Fluxe of the belly to stay Flux of blood to helpe Foddering of cattell Founder in the feet of cattell 19 Foule a disease in the foote 42 G GAlling of Cattell to helpe Gall flowing to helpe Garget to helpe 37 Garget on the tongue to helpe 37 Garget by some stroke giueÌ„ 38. 33 Garget in the maw 39 Gelding of Calues 83 Gelding another way Goring of a beast to helpe 77 Goring another Greene corne hurtful to Cattel Gouernment of Cattel 55 Goute in the feet to helpe 45 H Haw in the eie to helpe 81 Herbes venemous for Cattel to eat Hide bound to help 84. 83 Hoofe hurt to heale 27 Hoofe chopt to helpe Hornet or other flie stinging Horseleech worme drunk to help I IMpostumes to helpe 18 Inflammations in the mouth Ioynt being out to helpe 79 Ioint being out another 79 Itch on cattel to helpe 24. K KEper of Cattel his charge Kine diseased to helpe Kibes to helpe Kine put to the Bull. Kine put to labour Kine how to nourish and feede Knees of beasts swolne to help 21 Kow with Calfe how to vse L. LAxes in beasts to stop 62 Leane Cattel how to buy 40. 65 Leane or fat Cattel to buy 65 Leane kine or beasts to helpe 83 Lice on cattel to kill 35 Looking often vnto cattel is good Losse of Cattel léast hurt 69 Lungs of Cattel infected to helpe 87 Longroune in Cattel to help M MAw of beasts grieued to helpe Milting of a beast to helpe 45 Milch kine to feede Medicines to haue ready Milk scant in a Cow to helpe Murren among Cattell to helpe 88. 66 Mouth of a beast inflamed 27 N NEcke galde to helpe Neck bruised to heale Necke swolne to helpe 78 Necke swolne to helpe Necke hauing the clowse Neck out of ioynt to helpe 79 Nostrils of Cattel dropping to help O OXen how to buy and sell Oxen how to buy Oxen how for to tame Oxen diseased to helpe Oxen for to labour Oxe or Cow be sound to know Oxe feete worme to helpe Oxen labouring and yet fat Oxen how to fat Oxen being faint to helpe Oxen stalfed P PAstoring against tillage Panting in Oxe or Cow Pestilence and the cause Pissing of blood to helpe 43 Pissing of blood another 43 Pissing good things to prouoke 56 Pots to keepe Oxe pisse Purging things for Cattel 58 Pricking with a thorne 57 Q QVide of a beast lost to helpe 40 R REaring of Calues for increase Rotting in a beast to helpe 81. 85 S SCabbes on Cattel to helpe 21 Sinewes shrunke or broken to helpe Sinewes stiffe to helpe 20 Sicke beasts to helpe Sinewes good things to knit them 48 Sinewes another to knit Shroue mouce and her nature 74 Shoulder bruised to helpe Shoulder out of ioynt to help 78 Spraine or stroke to helpe 78 Stroke in the eie Stall fed Oxen. Stall to giue Cattel drinkes in 60 Stinging of Adder or Snake 30 Stinging of the field spider 30 Stinging with hornet or waspe 34 Sound beasts to know 81 Swelling thorow bloud to help 14 Swelling by eating a tine worme 15. 88 Swelling by drinking a horsleech 33 Swelling in any out part 80 Swelling in Cattell by venemous herbes 36 Swelling by eating green corne 36 T TEtter on Cattel to helpe 75 Another for the same 76 The tayle a griefe Teeth loose in cattel to help 45. 82 Tine worme eaten to helpe Tine blaine on the tongue to help Trenches in the guts to helpe Turning disease to helpe 47 V VEnomed tongue to helpe 14 Vaine cut to helpe Vometing of a beast to helpe W WArrenall worme in the backe of Cattel 44 Water in the belly of cattel to help Water meet for cattel to drinke Weary bread a disease Weathering in a Cow to
help 57 Worme in the taile to helpe 16 Wormes in Calues to helpe Worms in other Cattel to help 42 Worme betwixt the clees to helpe FINIS THE Second booke intreating of the gouernment of Horses with the approued remedies against most diseases Verie profitable for all men hauing a charge and gouerment thereof and chieflie for husbandmen with diuers other remedies practised in this lande Gathered by L. M. Although the Learned haue reuealde the helpes for horse great store Yet practisers therein againe haue found for them much more LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe 1587. An instruction for the ferrar and horseleech THe duetie of Ferrars and Horseleeches which desire the knowledge to helpe sorenesse and diseases in horses They must well and perfectly vnderstande of the present disease in the horse before they minister Also to looke on him well howe manie other griefes are growing on him and whether the cause be hotte or colde To know also the operation of all such herbes and drugges as he doeth minister vnto them With what quantitie and portion of eche thing thereof and in what time and houre of the dale and yeere is best Also what force and strength the horse is of which he doth minister vnto And whether he be olde or young and which disease to cure first These thinges well considered so when yee haue ministred vnto the horse and giuen them drinkes in declaring howe they shoulde after bee kept Hee ought also to looke well vnto them after their drinkes for a tyme to see howe his medicines doth woorke not to giue a horse drinke as most horseleeches doe and then to let them goe and takes no care thereof after Whereby manie horses falles woorse sicke and so perisheth soone after for lacke of attendance and good gouernement which is a greate discredite to that ferrour or horseleech For like as the wise learned Phisition when he haue ministred vnto his patient He will not then vpon the sodaine depart but first hee will know the working of his medicine and thereby hee getteth the more knowledge Euen so the horseleech should after giuing drinkes marke the woorking thereof in eche horse So likewise for his salues and playsters hee shoulde looke vnto them from time to time and see the working thereof whereby so doyng he should increase still more and more in knowledge and fame Thus much for instruction to the ferrar and horseleech The iudgement of Laurence Ruce of a beautiful horse THe parts of a beautifull horse are these he ought to haue a small leane head with the skinne ioyning to the same broade forhead shorte eares and sharpe great eies not hollow his nostrils large and open his lippes thinne and slender a large mouth and close a long necke and slender towardes the head his mane crested somewhat bowing vp broade brest a short back and straight his reynes full on both sides with flankes like an Oxe his hanches long stretchingout a round rumpe his taile with slender long haire large thighs fleshy withinside as without his legs straight leane and plaine large hips great legs lean and ful of haire the ioynts of his legs big not fleshie by the hoofes rounde hoofes short pastornes strong and well set with the rest of his vniuersall members of his body in length as in breadth his necke rising greater towardes his shoulders and brest and to be higher behinde then before like to the stagge or hart Also the nature of the horse THe horse is of a hot temperat nature his heat is shewed by his highnesse he is holde and of long life for he is of a longer life than all other labouring beastes his tēperature is therein found for he is easie to be taught and gentle towardes his maister and féeder Thus much heere touching the beautie and nature of a horse To the Horsemaister and breeder of coltes 1 RIde not thy horse too young I say nor labour him too sore Where gristles is as yet but weake striue not with him therefore 2 A young horse soone doth catch a crushe and wilfull oft they be Wherby their sorowes doth increase as dailie yee may see 3 Therefore to vse and tame thy coltes from yeere to yeere take paine And when thou makest them ready sale the more shal be thy gaine 4 Thy horse once sicke deferre not time his griefe for to appease For sorenesse oft so dangerous be thou maist thy horse soone leese 5 If thou doest mark of sorenes most whereof they doe proceede Thou shalt finde out that most doe come For lacke of taking heede 6 Therefore let this booke be thy glasse wherein thou maist haue sight How for to helpe and saue thy horse wherein thou hast delight 7 Here maist thou finde both learne and see no kinde of helpes to want Of secret knowledge in thy horse which skil hath bin ful scant A Prouerbe To trust all currant horsecoursers I vise thee to beware For truth among the most of them is found to be full rare Breeding of coltes ALl those which hath a desire for to bréede coltes horse they must first make prouision for the good gouernement thereof and to haue large pastures and to bee measured in their meate as well as other cattell For a horse doth aske a greater diligence to be meated and kept in the stable more then other cattel There is thrée sortes of horses the first are to be nourished young which are noble and excellent for the field and tourney The second is for carriage of burdens as moyles and packe horse which are bought and solde for that purpose according to their goodnesse The third is another sort of horses and mares of easie prices cōmon for most men the which is of a meaner and smaller stature and for the common sort are most necessarie to trauell with and also are better to féede and bring vp for to till the earth which must haue also kéepers continually to sée vnto thē in fields pastures aswel as in woods or other grounds and to kéepe them from daungerous places of myres and bogges and where as they may haue soft grasse and sweet as wel as to be ranke high and great They doe suffer these horses to be with the mares in pastures or other groundes and passe not when they doe couer the mares not for these sort of horses but for your large great mares they ought to bee couered about Aprill or May and some doe couer in mid March to the end the mares may foale about the same time they were couered in hauing ready the same time the tender grasse and herbe to feede on and to haue the hot and faire season vnto haruest for about the end of xii moneths after she foaleth and therfore ye must with good aduisemēt put the horse vnto the mare For he that kéepes these sort of beastes must serue them at the same houre when they are desirous or when they doe enter into the fierce and hotte desire of the horse
pare hollow his féete nigh to the quick then race him with a crooked launcet from the heels to the toe in 2. or 3 places raise the hoofe on both sides of your races let him bleed wel then clap two or three harde egges as hotte as yee can and as these doe coole take new and lay hot horse doung thereon and about his hoofe and so he shal soone recouer and be well againe as before To know the age of a horse YE must féele of his bridle téeth aboue at a yéere olde he wil shout forth a tooth at two yéeres two teeth at three yeeres foure teeth at fiue yeeres fiue teeth aboue A mare that hath bridle teeth aboue shee will bring few coltes or none and when his vaine tooth is with an edge towarde the fore téeth he is eight yéeres A drinke to comfort a horse YE shal boile in ale great raisons the stones taken forth of licoras and Anniséeds in like quantitie of cummin and sallet oyle straine it and giue it with a horne or take also of turmericke fenegreke Anniseeds lycoras and sallet oyle let your powders be searst very fine mixe them all milke warme and so giue it with a horne To heale an impostumed wounde TAke and hollow two or thrée great enyons and put therin a cursie of bay salt and a litle hole saffron and so rost them vnder the embars and plaister wise laie them al hoate on the wounds If ye would haue the skin of make a playster of Cow doung sodde in milke and clappe it too for 24. houres which wil take away the skinne putrified But the other will heale al wonndes alone by it selfe The Horse tongue hurt with the bridle YE shall boyle in water of woodbind leaues of black brier leaues of primrose leaues knotgrasse with some hony sod then put to a litle allum once or twice a daye to make it luke warme and wash his tongue therewith with a clowte tied on a stickes ende and this will soone heale it againe For a Horse that doth tire on the way TAke slyse a péece of freshe béefe and lap it about his bit and fasten it with a threed and then bridle him ride him and he will not lightly tyre To helpe a horses mouth venoumed called of some the Camery THe Camery is a disease in the tongue and lips of a horse which hath eaten some venomed grasse or haie that dogs or cattes haue pissed on which wil make his tongue to haue like cliftes and scabbes and his vpper lippe vnder to be full of blacke whealkes or pimples which will let him to eate hardly anie meate The cure is ye shall take out his tongue and pricke the vaines vnder the end in sixe or eight places so vnder his vpper lip and let him bléed wel then al to rub it with salt then the next day wash it with some Uinegar and rubbe it againe with salt and he shal do wel againe and giue him warme drinke a day or two after Duoth Sharpe To helpe the bagges in the mouth of a horse THe bagges or geakes is an easie sorenesse to heale which is hard gristles being on the insides of a horses mouth in the weakes of his lippes or mouth which will often goe betweene his téeth and trouble him that he cannot eate nor chew wel his meate The remedy Yee shal take foorth his tongue and put a rowling pin of wood vnder so hold it out on the contrary side then shal ye with the point of the sheares clip an ynch long of that inner gristle cleane away theÌ„ turne his tongue and doe the other side of his mouth likewise and then rub them wel with salt and let him goe and they will shrinke awaie and the horse shal do well againe A proued medicine to kil mangie on a horse TAke a pound of blacke sope a pottle of mustard foure peniworth of brimstone made in fine powder thrée penieworth of quicksiluer wel killed with fresh greace two peniworth of verdegreaceÌ„ a quarter or lesse of a pint of greace stirre all these together in a vessel till the greace and other thinges be molten with labour and without fire and therewith annoint the mangie sore but first let him blood then after two daies washe it with the water that young broom or At semanacke herbe hath béene well sodde in and smally chopt and mixt with a little powder of soote and lette those séeth wel together and this wil help him with once annointing and twise washing To ripe an impostume in anie outward part SEeth mallow rootes and lillie rootes in water bruise theÌ„ and mixe them with porkes greace and put to of linséede meale and plaister wife laie it to against the impostume of a cold cause seeth white mints in wine and oile or ale and butter so laie it too This wil destroy and wast a hard impostume Also for a cold impostume stampe cuckospit with old greace and so plaister it on this wil waste it also Againe against a hotte impostume stampe liuerwort and mixe it with the grounds of ale it wil help or bruised with mallowes at the beginning mixt with hogs greace and all hot laide to will ripe an impostume or the grouÌ„ds of ale or béere boiled with mallowes bath it therwith hot and plaisterwise laie it on the swelled place and it wil disperse and waste it awaie in 2. or 3. daies Also bawme stamped and mixt with hogges greace so plaistred wil ripe disperse anie cold impostumatioÌ„ Against a hot rising or swelling bruise of lettise seed or Popie séede and mixe it with oile of ree roses so plaister it on which wil helpe if it be taken betimes Thus much for swollen places and impostumes For a horse that is pricked in a ioynt among sinewes TAke of rosen pitch turpentine and Sanguis draconis then melt these together and clap it somwhat warme on the place or ioynt then take of floxe and put vpon it for that will cleane too and defend it and this wil rype it and cause it to runne if any thing wil d ee it for there is not founde a better waie to helpe a swolne ioynt Against stiffenesse of sinewes and ioyntes SEeth blacke sope a pound in a quart of strong ale till it waxe thicke like tarre then reserue it and when ye shall sée cause vse to annoint the sinewes ioynts therwith and it wil supple them and bring them againe although they be shrunke This is as wel for man as for beast For a horse that hath a canker in his mouth or throate A Horse that hath a canker or is venomed in his throate and mouth he cannot swallow his meate but it wil lie in his iawes on both â—es his mouth and oft when hee haue chewed haie he wil put it out againe and his breath wil sauor very strongly before meat and hauing this griefe he wil neuer prosper but pyne away
of them naturally but when they are smal they neuer hurt So whē they begin to grow and waxe great then there is daunger which worme is a hollow skin and all haire within which ye shal take forth thus as some do teach Cut it aboue the foote round with a sharpe pointed knife so beneath put your finger in the hollow vnderneath the foote and your thumbe by it on the top afore and then thrust it vp with the point of your knife and your thumbe gently take it forth whole for if ye breake it it is not good and then annoint the place with tar and it wil heale againe ful wel Also others saith it stickes before in the midst of the foote like doges haire staring byright and within is the worme all haire For euery galling in the foote they heale it with farre onely or with allume and brimstone mixt togither or with an vnripe pomgranet beaten allume and putting too a litle vinegar and laid too Or of vardegrease in pouder and laide on Also gaules burnt and made in pouder and mixt with red wine and saide too is good As touching the worme in the claw is sufficient spoken of before Yet here I wil something speake more thereof which is the place in the foote to be cut round not touching the worme for feare yee make not an vlcer thereof vncurable and in danger of cutting of all the shéepes féete When this worme shal be diligently cut round as is afore said and so pluckt foorth whole without breaking any part thereof if ye doe breake her they say she casteth such a venomed poyson all ouer the place except it be straightway medicined al the foote is in danger to be cut off And therfore looke wel vnto the taking out therof Some whē it is taken out do no more but drop in the wound scalding tallow or of the dropping of a candel and so letteth it heale Others do but tarre it For the disease of the lunges or purcinesse like vnto hogges they put into their eares that which the heardmen and shéepe heardes call pompelle in French which is also spoken of amōg great cattle Some saies it is good to stamp lungwort and straine it with a litle honied water and giue it them and of the iuyce of Cardus Benedictus called sowthistle mixt with ale warme This disease commeth to them oft in sommer for default of water Wherefore during the heat in sommer they ought to haue water plentie For Celsus saith that if the lightes or lunges be once infected ye shal giue your shéep of strong vinegar so much as they may bear or els of old vrme of men luke warme each shéep somewhat more then a pinte and put it into his left nosthrill and put downe twoo ounces of olde grease of a Hogge downe his throate The wilde fire which the shepheards call the flying fire is a straunge disease and harde to heale if it rest not in the first shéepe where it taketh all the rest are like to bee infected so that there is no medicine nor yron may helpe it for the one shéepe shall but touch the other and he shall be inflamed therewith They haue no other thing but to kéepe them warme and nourish them with Goates milke the which doeth cause it to be more gentle and doeth mitigate the violentes of the fire and the burning of the whole flocke that they dye not thereof Where Dolus Mendesius Egyptian did verie well for to celebrate which the Gréeks called their monuments and bookes woorthie of memorie the which were falsely named Democritus bookes Wherein was for to remedie this disease which was by and by as one shéepe had it they tooke him which griefe comes first on the backe of the shéepe and incontinent they make a hole at the entering in of the shéepe house and there they bury the infected shéepe aliue with foure féete vpward and so couers him with earth and all the rest in comming there ouer will pisse theron And so saith he the disease will go away and thereby all the rest shall escape other remedie there is none found Of the encreasing of choler in sommer which is a dangerous disease in shéepe The which they heale in that time by giuing them of the old and stale vrine of men which is also very good for other cattell which hath the iaundise And to purge choler some do take the leaues of elder stamps a few and straines it with ale and giues it warme Others doe giue them the iuyce of hoppes with ale or water And some doe giue them of femetory amongst their meate All these aforesaid are very good to purge choler Fleame also do molest shéepe and therfore they do vse for to put of the tender branches or tops of sauery into their nosthrils Also to put basil in their noses which wil make them to néese but ye must close their eyes Some putteth of tender bayes into their nosthrils that wil make them also to néese purge their heads Also the iuyce of briony or hedge vine mixt with honied water giuen warme likewise polipody or oke ferne rootes stampt smal giuen with ale al these wil purge fleame Against breaking of any bone Or if the shéeps leg chance to be broken ye ought to helpe them euen as ye do to a man in first bathing it with oyle wine or wrapping it in wooll dipt in oyle and wine then to splint it as ye sée cause so binde it fast thereon Also the tender buds of ash trées brused and laid too wil knit bones or the inner rinde of elme barke stampt laid a night in water and then warme bathe the place therewith is good to knit broken bones also Or the herbe cuccospit stampt laid too Or wild bitony cald in latin Tunica laid therto or coumphery hearbe stampt and laid too is good also for to knit bones Of herbes euil for shéepe as knot grasse for if shéepe eate therof it wil inflame their bellies and so causing a stinking froth or fome at their mouthes Therfore ye must with spéed let them blood vnder the taile next vnto the buttock Also it profiteth no lesse to let them blood on the vaine cald Babine whch is vnder the vpper lip And likewise gréene rye or barley nie ripe wil swel in the maw and kil shéepe For purcines or short breath in shéep they vse to cut their eares to chāge their pasture laier which is a thing necessary to be counseiled against al sicknes of the plague Also to slit their nosthrils as well as to cut their eares And some thinks it good to giue them of anniséeds licorice sugarcandy all finely beaten togither mixt with old grese so giuē them or the pouder of ginnepar beries giuen with the iuice of angelica and giuen with a horne in wine or water Also hare wort in latin calde
certaine stopping in some of their tets which is a hard matter like a strawe of flegme which will be in the cundit of the teat with a little blacke head some will sticke so fast that the kid or lambe cannot drawe it foorth and so long they can haue no milke Therefore must the shepheards sée to all such things at the lamming or kidding time or els the lambs and kids are like to starue Let the kéeper also looke vnto his goats that the females be not chast or hunted when they be great with kids for if they be they will be in danger of the misturning the kids in their bellies which causeth the kids oftentimes to die put the goats in great ieopardy so likewise with yowes great with lamb if they be chast being great it turnes their lambs in their bellies and makes many miscary in lambing time Thus much for the kéeping and ordering of goates If a sheepe be bitten with any dog ye shal clip away all the wooll thereabout nigh vnto the place and then clap on a plaister of pitch and it will heale it To heale a tetter which is a drie scabbe YE shall take the rootes of sorrell wild or tame slice them and bruse them a litle and soke them in good vinegar two daies and two nights then rub the sore therwith iiii or v. times a day and then let the roots so remaine in the vinegar stil Use this and it wil help Or take the gum of chery trées and resolue it in strong vinegar and rub the sore therewith and this wil helpe Also Acerabacca brused and laid in vinegar to annoint doth the same Againe the herbe cald pricmadam growing commonly on walles stampt with barrowes grease and so remaine two daies and then annoint therewith doth like helpe Or bolearmeniac mixt with sope and then to annoint therewith All these are good against tetters either for sheepe or goats Lambs cutting coming late in the yeare or kids IF ye haue any lambs that come in the end of maye or in Iune the fly wil be busie if ye then cut them◠to defend the flye ye shal mixe fresh grease and soote together For the soot being sharpe wil kéepe away the flye and so annoint the cod therewith and he shall do wel To helpe goates or sheepe that haue an itch YE shall take of young broome the tendrest yee can gette and put a good quantitie thereof into a pot with chambe◠lye then stop it close and so let it remaine And when as ye shall haue anie cause to occupie therof shed ouer the wool on the sheepe◠backe and annoynt therewith so that it may goe downe to the skinne This is soone made and of small charge and is more better than tarre and fresh greace For it will fasten the wooll kil the scab also destroy the tikes Often proued quoth Balgroue To feede a lambe from the Dam. A Lambe taken from the Dam so nourished by hand he may soon perish although ye feede it very wel except ye looke vnto his dunging For I haue knowen some beeing stopt die thereof for lacke of looking to Ye shal open annoint his tuell with butter or oyle and so rake him or els giue him spurge with milke or centory in milke A proued medicine against the staggers in sheepe TAke of house leke called Singréene the roote of Dragon a like quantitie Some groundes of strong ale with some new milke stampe the herbes and then boyle them wel altogether Then put thereto a few grains grossly beaten and so let it haue a boyle or twoo after so lette it coole and giue eche shéepe two or thrée spoonful thereof milke warme and this wil helpe The Table for sheepe Goates by Alphabet as followeth A AGe in sheepe how to know Age of sheepe by number of teeth Altering thy stocke to helpe 211 Aristotles precepts for sheepe 240 Other sayings of Aristotle B BElting of sheepe 231 Bying of sheepe to know Byting sheepe with a dogge to helpe Bledder in the heade of sheepe to helpe 230 Blindnesse in sheepe to help 229 Blood in sheepe to helpe 229 Bloode in the codde of lambes to helpe Blood in sheepe another 230 Breeding of sheepe 211 Brething straite in sheepe 225 Broome salue to annoint sheepe with 221 Bones broken to helpe 225 C Chusing of rammes Chusing good sheepe Coller troubling sheepe 224 Cough in sheepe to helpe 228 Cough another way to helpe 229 Clouen pesyll 243 Crampe in a sheepe to helpe 19 Couller of sheepe best Cutting or gelding of lambe 256 D DEuiding of sheepe 236 Doggs meete for some sheepeherds 231 Drinke in sommer for sheepe Dropsie in goats to helpe E EAning of yeaues to ease Eawes chast great with lambe not good Eawes to make them loue their lambs 232 Eawes that loue not their lambs 236 Eaning time to take good heed of Eawes going with lambe 237 Eawes great not to be chasts F FAtting of sheepe Female lambs to haue 210 Feuer in sheepe to helpe 222 Fleame in sheepe to helpe 225 Folding of sheepe 236 folding of sheepe another G GAll in sheepe to helpe 249 Gald in the foote to helpe 223 Glanders in sheepe to helpe 226 Goats their nature feeding Goat buckes hauing beards Gelding lambs Goat buckes soone waxe olde Goats with kidde not to be chast Goats when best to be couered Goats how for to nourish Goats hauing the dropsie to helpe Goats being diseased to helpe Gouernment of sheepe Grasse for sheepe among fallows 239 Goats inflamed in the skinne Goats that haue the pestilence to helpe H HAw in the eie of sheep to help Head pained to helpe Hearbs euill for sheepe 225 Hearbes holesome for sheepe 249 Horned rams and their nature Houses meet for sheepe Hoggerels and young sheep do not like I IAundis in sheep to helpe 224 Itch in sheepe to helpe 246 L Lambs being sicke to helpe 226 Lambs scabby to helpe 227 Lambs weake to helpe 234 Lambs what time best to wean 225 Lambs eating the leafe to help Lambs which come in the spring Laming time how to know 240 Lambs to haue blacke or spotted 240 Lambing time to take heed of 233 Lice on sheepe to kill 242 Long sicke in sheepe to help 223 Lambs coming late to cut Lambs stopt to looke vnto M MAle lambs to haue 216 Maggots on sheep to help 232 Another for the same Medicines good for sheepe 219 Medicines against an itch 221 Meat sufficient for sheepe 212 Meat or pasture for Goats Milke to increase in sheepe 235 N NOrishing of sheepe 207 O OYntment or greasing of sheepe P PAsture ground for sheepe 215 Pens made to diuide sheepe Pestilence in sheepe to helpe 219 Poxe a disease in shepe to help 231 Poyson among sheep to helpe 233 Purcines in sheep to help Prouerbe of pastures for sheep For sheepe that haue lost their quide to help 248 R RAcks meete for sheepe Rams how to choose Rams of estimation 210 Rams how