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A20493 A direction to the husbandman in a nevv, cheape, and easie way of fertiling [sic], and inriching areable grounds, by a mixture of certaine native materialls, in small quantities with the seed to sow, and strowing the same vpon the ground sowed. VVherein is declared the ordering and preparation of the materialls, the manner and proportion of mingling them with the seed, and strowing them upon the ground: with sundrie other particualrs tending to a full and plaine instruction of such as shall desire to make use thereof. Mowet, Charles, attributed name.; Keeling, Edward, attributed name.; Waterhouse, Nathanael, attributed name. 1634 (1634) STC 6902; ESTC S109710 5,485 20

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TO MY VVORTHY-HONEST FRIEND Mr. BENEDICT WEBBE THAT TRVE PATRIOT SIR THere bee two things necessarie for this life Foode and Raiment For Rayment you have much travailed to the publike good by adding to our Olde Draperies the making of Perpetuanaes Spanish Cloathes c. And lastly by bringing Rape Oyle to the use of Cloathing whereby you have exceedingly well deserved of the Common-wealth For Food that other and greater necessary The Newe Invention for Fertiling and Inriching of Areable Grounds the Argument of the ensuing Treatise must acknowledge you as the first Author So to have beene by your selfe and others by you directed the prime Experimentors of the certaintie and realitie thereof Then which I scarsely know whether any thing hath bene Invented of more great and generall use Yet have you not so busied your selfe about many things with Martha as to neglect that one necessary of necessaries Maries good part which hath the blessing of both lives which your often praying frequent hearing much reading and meditating of the best things well testifie But hereof enough This Booke of Direction being your owne and for the maine framed out of your tryed directions desires to passe into the world underthe protection of your credit and name Vntill by approved experience it shall have gained credit unto it selfe and returned credit unto you meane while it shall rest contented with that olde Motto Trie and Trust. A DIRECTION TO THE Husbandman in a newe cheape and easie way of Fertiling and Inriching Areable Grounds c. WHereas the Kings Majestie vpon the humble Petition of Charles Mowet Edward Keeling and Nathanael Waterhouse Gent ' on the behalfe of themselues and partners by His Letters Patents vnder the Great Seale of England bearing date at Westminster the first day of March in the ninth yeare of his Raigne of his especiall grace certaine knowledge and meere motion Hath given and granted for him his Heires and Successors vnto the said Charles Mowet Edward Keeling and Nathanael Waterhouse full and free Libertie Licence Power and Authoritie that they and the Survivor and Survivors of them their and every of their Executors Administrators and Assignes by themselves and their Deputies Servants Factors Workemen or Agents and none other should and might at all and every time and times hereafter from time to time during the Terme of Foureteene Yeares next ensuing the Date of the said Letters Patents vse excercise practise and put in vse within His Kingdomes of England Ireland and Dominion of Wales at every of their wills and pleasures the Misterie Art way and meanes of fertiling and inriching of Areable Grounds by a mixture in a smale quantitie of certaine native Materialls with the Seed farther signifying that His will and pleasure was and by the said Letters Patents of His more especiall grace certain knowledge and meere motion for Him his Heires and Successors straitly charging and inhibiting all and every other Person Persons whatsoever of what Estate Degree or Condition he or they or any of them be that none of them other then the said Patentees and the Survivor and Survivors of them their and every of their Executors and Administrators Substitutes Deputies Workemen or Assignes or any of them doe or should during the said Terme of Fourteene yeares use or practise directly or indirectly the said Art way or meanes for fertiling and inriching of Areable Grounds without the Licence Consent and agreement of them the said Patentees their Executors Administrators or Assignes or some or one of them first had and obtained And hath by the said Letters Patents for Him his Heires and Successors willed and commanded all and singuler Majors Sheriffes Iustices of Peace Bayliffes Constables Headboroughes and other Ministers and Subiects of Him his Heires and Successors that they and every of them be from time to time during the terme aforesaid helping and assisting to the said Patentees the Survivor and Survivors of them their and every of their Executors Administrators Deputies and Assignes in all things in and about the accomplishment of His pleasure therein declared and in the exercise and execution of the same And that they nor any of them doe at any time hinder molest or interrupt the said Patentees or the Survivor or Survivors of them their or any of their Executors Administrators Deputies or Assignes or any of them in any wife concerning the Premises as they tender His pleasure and would avoid the contrary at their perill as in and by the said Letters Patents more at large appeareth In which Letters Pattents the particuler naming of the said Materialls the Preparations of them the proportions and manner of mixture and application of them aswell to the Seed as to the Ground and many other incidents were wittingly omitted as reserved to the ensuing discourse purposely intended for a full Direction of the Husbandman in the use exercise and practise of the said new Invention Wherin although the Composition hereafter described consist of ingredients endowed with qualities so specificall and powerful in the fruitfulling and inriching of Areable Grounds and the manner of application therof both to the Seed and Ground so proper for the endeaymed at as it might well hope upon the very reading of the same to gaine beliefe amongst the ingenious and judicious Husbandmen without further proofe yet because many things in discourse and reason so concluding as convince most understandings fall out oftentmes to faile in the practise it desireth no further faith or acceptance from any then such as a Demonstrative experimented successefull truth shall wrest from the most incredulous Which experiment that it may bee made without any the least error or mistaking the Instructions following are set downe in such plainenesse and so distinctly in the materials preparation proportion applycation and all other requisite particulers as none not too carelesly negligent can possibly erre FIrst then the Soyle being supposed to bee such as with the vsuall Husbandries of Dunging Marleing Lyming Foulding c. will returne in some good measure in his season a multiplyed Cropp of the Graine therein sowed you must give unto it the ordinary Tillage according to the Nature of the Sone and use of the Countrey Your Seed being Wheat Rye Barley or of what other sort soever must be well chosen and cleansed from light Corne and whatso-else mixture of any Damagefull thing with an abatement of the fourth part of the Seed you usually gave in your former courses of Husbandry and yet you shall by the blessing of God finde your Corne as thicke and strong as if you had given the whole proportion of Seed Vpon every Bushell of Winchester measure containing eight Gallons being laid upon a Table or Course sheete Bedwise powre as on a Bed of Wooll so much of Rapeseede Oyle as will well moysten the said Seede stirring and tossing the Corne so oyled to and fro untill it bee well moistned and made fit to receiue and joyne it selfe with any drie matterialls which shal