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A52870 The new and better art of agriculture This humble and faithful memorial I do most humbly and faithfully dedicate and present to his most sacred Majesty Charles the second, King of England, &c. ... Dymock, Cressy. 1668 (1668) Wing N538; ESTC R213902 3,390 1

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THE New and better ART OF AGRICULTURE This Humble and Faithful MEMORIAL I do most Humbly and Faithfully Dedicate and Present TO His most sacred Majesty CHARLES the Second King of England c. To his Royal Consort Queen KATHERINE To their Royal Hignesses the Duke and Dutchess of York To all the Nobility Knights and Grand Gentry To the most Reverend and Right Reverend the Lord Bishops and all the Inferior Clergy of England c. To the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen and the Common-Council of the City of London To all the Merchants and Grand Citizens of the same and of all other Cities and Towns Corporate in England c. And to all others whatsoever that shall think fit to be concerned therein any way for it doth or may concern any or every Person either upon the general or particular Account England and Wales and the Limits of Berwick upon Tweed is North and South about 320 Miles upon the vulgar Account and generally every such Mile is about a Mile and a half of measured Miles and from East to West about as much and so may reasonably be allowed and accounted to be 400 measured Miles square that is Land and Sea together but by reason that the Form as to the Land only is very irregular it may be reasonable to take off for the Sea three eight Parts though that be manifestly too much Now where the Form is regular and all Land 400 measured Miles square would contain 160000 such measured Miles singly square but cutting off three ●ll Eights or 60000 measured Miles singly square there remains really to be ●ccounted of 100000 such singly square measured Miles One measured Mile singly square contains 640 Statute-Acres though there were no Hills but all a Flat in all 64000000 of Statute-Acres I allow or account that at least the one eighth part of this generally is Plowed and ●owed every year besides all that is laid every year Fallow that is 8000000 of Acres In the now common way one with the other they allow at least two Bushels and a half for the Seed for one Statute-Acre one sort of Corn and Grain with the other and so 20000000 Bushels or 2500000 Quarters is to be accounted one years Seed In my way I allow at most but half a Bushel for one Statute-Acre which is but the fifth part of their allowance that is 500000 Quarters that is 2000000 of Quarters less than what is sowed in the common way Wheat is commonly one time and place with the other at at least 30 s. per Quarter Rye at 24 s. Barly at 20 s. and Oats at 12 s. so all accounted together comes to above 20 s. a Quarter and 2000000 of Quarters to 2000000 l. which is too much to be cast away every year for two Quarters is more than enough to support one Person all the year with Bread and Drink and so to support every year 1000000 Persons Men Women and Children When the Husbandman hath twelve times his Seed again or more say 32 Bushels or 4 Quarters he counts himself in a good prospering way and when it is generally so it is a plentiful year and 4 Quarters may be so worth 4 l. and when every Acre one with the other in England c. yields 4 l. that is for 8000000 Acres 32000000 l. for an Increase of the Stock or Wealth of the Kingdom in this Part that is by Tillage only In my way though at double Charge to the common way as by a strange mistake it is accounted I have sufficient cause to hope and in all Submission to Gods Will to be certain that every Acre one with the other shall yield 10 l. and clear 4. l. So that if 8000000 of Acres were Ploughed and Sowed my way the Crops according to but the former account would be worth 80000000 and the Tythes 8000000 and the 4 l. per Acre cleared amounts to 3200000 l. That is ●he Kingdom would be enriched 24000000 ever year more than in the common ●ay But I expect to have it objected that if my way was generally used upon ●000000 of Acres it would be too great Cheapness and Plenty which though ●t be hard that men should repine at Plenty which is a Blessing from God may be thus prevented by Tilling less say by 3200000 of the 8000000 of Acres aforesaid and laying down 4800000 Acres And thus the Ballance between the common way and mine would be about even and the Kingdom as much enriched as now it may be judged to be as aforesaid and the Tythes as much ●●ly not so much saved out of the Seed though as much proportionably Note That if there were found or made Manure enough competently for 8000000 of Acres before when 4800000 Acres shall be laid down for other Uses and consequently more Cattel of all sorts and so more Manure and but ●00000 Acres in Tillage to be there with enriched the Land must necessarily be made more Fertile and productive of better Crops than formerly If it be objected That if 4800000 Acres be taken from Tillage and laid down for other uses it will be long if ever the more barren part of it especially before it can be brought to produce good Grass for Pasturage or Mowing Grounds To this I truly Answer That I do certainly know how to make it bear indifferent good Grass the very first Year and better and more yearly for many Years after If it be objected That Tillage imploys more Hands than other sorts of Husbandry And that by so lessening the Tillage great Numbers of the poorer sort will be undone for want of Work To this I answer faithfully and understandingly That I know divers honest beneficial and not enslaving ways which if prosecuted as I could demonstrate in act were I in Stock sufficient may set not only all the Poor in England but five times more if we had them to work all the Year All those that out of a Generous and Noble Love to and Zeal for the Publick Good shall freely Contribute what they please more or less I need not say any more but that Vertuous Deeds are their own most proper Reward and he that loves the publick good deserves Love Honour and Thanks from all and in this case from me peculiarly And for those that shall advance any thing more or less for obtaining a proportionable Profit to themselves this business in my Management shall and will afford to them 20 l. for each 100 l. p. annum for so many Years as shall be agreed on and their Money again at the end of those Years Those three great Difficulties which I hope this Paper rightly considered will take off are these First Though I mean most Faithfully I cannot give such Security as is usually expected in Money matters my own Faith as a Christian and Honour as a Gentle-man together with my own Bond or Judgment is all I offer or that the Advancer can reasonably demand or expect all things considered Secondly Some Persons may perhaps have an unkind suspition that I will not put the Money to be thus obtained to this use intended But he that in any good measure understands that I shall have a much more great and certain advantage by persuing this course having fit encouragement than by any other that can be taken will easily believe that Self-Interest will deny that Thirdly Whether in my way there may be produced 10 l. per Acre per annum one with the other The answer and demonstration of this you shall be fully satisfied in when you shall come and fairly discourse it with me for it would be too long and inconvenient to enlarge upon that here and then you will find it to be a most Evident Truth And whoever gets over these three first Stiles hath no cause of any other Doubt or Objection My now Lodging is in White-Friars at Mr. Standen's House next Door to the Golden Bottle Where whosoever having read this Paper and rightly considered it shall incline to be concerned in any way may find me or by leaving a Note sealed for me appointing some certain time and place I shall meet accordingly to such just Directions For it would be equal to Hercules his Labours for me among such vast Numbers and various Humours to seek and find fit and willing Persons to be concerned with me in this great business If any Pious Generous Person should happen to fall sick before he hath had time fully and effectually to consider of this Paper and its Contents in case he should dye may do an Excellent and Hourable Work to appoint in their Wills expresly So that such Legacy may be sure to come to my Hands and be rightly and duly paid me without delay suit or trouble which the very Nature of this business is against such Legacy be it more or less will tend to the advancing this Business to its proper height and best Perfection Be pleased to understand these Truths that the Proposer is a Gentleman and was a Col. of Horse in his late Majesties Armies Hath been several times undone by or for his Fidelity having lost a considerable Estate he had in Possession and a greater he had Right to hath served and suffered about forty three Years and not yet effectually relieved which is the cause he wants Stock to carry on this great and good Work without help And therefore takes this course to obtain a considerable Stock and all that shall Contribute to it any way shall thereby Advance a publick good Augment if they engage in it that way their own Intrests or Estates and raise a deep Sufferer and his Family out of his undeserved Ruins which even alone is a Noble act but altogether much more