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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15724	A discouerie of sundrie errours and faults daily committed by lande-meaters, ignorant of arithmetike and geometrie, to the damage, and preiudice of many her Maiesties subiects with manifest proofe that none ought to be admitted to that function, but the learned practisioners of those sciences: written dialoguewise, according to a certaine communication had of that matter. By Edward Worsop, Londoner. Euery one that measureth land by laying head to head, or can take a plat by some geometricall instrument, is not to be accounted therfore a sufficient landmeater, except he can also prooue his instruments, and measurings, by true geometricall demonstrations.	Worsop, Edward.	1582 (1582)	STC 25997; ESTC S120271	43,934	78

A DISCOVERIE of sundrie errours and faults daily committed by Landemeaters ignorant of Arithmetike and Geometrie to the damage and preiudice of many her Maiesties subiects with manifest proofe that none ought to be admitted to that function but the learned practisioners of those Sciences Written Dialoguewise according to a certaine communication had of that matter By Edward Worsop Londoner Euery one that measureth Land by laying head to head or can take a plat by some Geometricall instrument is not to be accounted therefore a sufficient Landmeater except he can also prooue his instruments and measurings by true Geometricall Demonstrations AT LONDON Printed by Henrie Middleton for Gregorie Seton ANNO 1582. TO THE RIGHT Honourable and his singular good Lord Syr William Cecill Baron of Burghley Knight of the most noble order of the Garter Lord high Treasourer of England and one of the Lords of her Maiesties most Honourable priuie Counsell AMong the number of our worthie acts of Parlement right Honourable my most singular good Lord the statute of land measure is of great importance and equitie Certaine persons wanting sufficient knowledge for the executing of that statute notwithstanding intrude them selues into that weightie function as sufficient Sundry of their false rules and vntrue waies of measuring as also sundry true rules by some of them falsely applyed in this small treatise are discouered Mine intention was not in the time of penning thereof nor long since to publish the same but of late vpon great vrging and persuasion of him at whose request I did write this talke and of certaine other my friends and acquaintances I yeelded at their requests to the publication thereof The necessitie and worthines of the matter require learned and exquisite ordering which I must resigne to be performed hereafter by the learned By this treatise I may bee likened to a broyled founder whose onely charge is to make mixture of mettals and to roughcast them The filing grauing and polishing are done by other artificiall workemen who goodly set out the same to the eye according to the richenes of the metall I a simple man among the common people haue set forth this discourse to their behoofe by the playnest waies I could deuise and for their easiest vnderstanding Sundry learned workes of the Mathematicals for such as vnderstand or affect learning are extant in our vulgar tongue as Euclide the workes of Doctor Record of Master Leonard Digges of Master Thomas Digges and of some others But because these learned bookes can not bee vnderstoode of the common sorte and that they be as iuels and riches shadowed or wrapped vp from their sight I haue thought good by a plaine and popular discourse to laie open vnto the vnderstanding of euery reasonable man the necessities and commodities of those singular workes and knowledges and the great abuse inconueniences and iniuries the common weale susteineth by crediting and reteyning of ignorant doers and neglecting of learned and skilfull writers and practisioners As wise and learned men when they speake vnto a simple and vnlearned man frame their speache to his vnderstanding which in the like cause they would vtter otherwise if they spake to one learned so must some man to the behoofe of the common weale manifest those enormities popularly that the hurt which ignoraunce bringeth in this weightie matter may vniuersally bee knowen I although farre vnmeete to take so weightie a cause in hande haue aduentured for the discharge of my conscience and my duetie to the common weale to manifest as I best could certaine great inconueniences which the common weale daily susteineth by vnlearned practisioners humbly submitting my selfe where reformation is needeful to the correction of the learned And for because it is vniuersally knowen that the continuall application of your noble hearte and minde is to the furtherance of learned knowledges of equitie in causes suppressing of ignoraunce and to the commoditie of the weale publike whereof your Honour is a principall piller and for that your Honour hath been mine especiall good Lord I doe presume as enforced thereto by duetie to dedicate vnto your Honour this small treatise most humbly requiring pardon for such my great boldnes as also that your Honor would vouchsafe to receiue the same into your noble patronage Your Honours most humble to command EDWARD WORSOP The coppie of a Letter sent with this Booke TO perfo●rme my promise and satisfie your request I haue set downe in writing as neere as I can call to remembrance the communication had in our iourney touching vntrue measuring of land insufficient landmeaters and why they are still permitted For the further proofe of these matters I haue drawen sundry figures like vnto some of those you sawe in my booke which proofes the vnlearned in Geometrie may easily conceiue I pray you reserue this booke for the satisfaction of your selfe and your friendes I would be loath it should come to the hands of learned Mathematicians for they may iustly reproue sundry of my demonstrations and declarations because they are not penned as learning and art require If they were penned in artificiall order and termes you could not vnderstand them because you are ignorant of the Mathematicals If you wil be instructed in Arithmetike Euclide Tectonicon and Pantometria according to your earnest protestations and studie those bookes earnestly because they are the best writers extant in our vulgar tongue touching the Mathematicall part of surueie you shall then perceiue what great pleasure and commoditie is receiued from learned and artificiall writers ouer that can bee had from them which in their writings discend to the capacitie of the vulgar sort Then also you will yeelde your selfe more beholding vnto me for writing this popular discourse at you request to the diminishing and aduenturing of mine estimation among learned Mathematicians then nowe while you thinke it artificially done Although my knowledge in Geometrie is verie small yet I would not abase my selfe by penning any demonstrations popularly but to pleasure you and your friendes and for that I would many should vnderstand the great hurtes the common weale sustaineth by landmeaters ignorant of Geometrie When you haue attained knowledge I hope you will deale with mee as good natured men deale with their nurses Good natured men during their liues loue their nurses because they receiued their first sustenance from them although their stomakes would loath to suck their milke as they did in their infancie When you shall finde your selfe learned in Geometrie and that you can vnderstand the demonstrations of learned writers you will repute my writing as cold and thin milk in comparison of other meates that are strong and of good nourishment From London the two and twentie of September 1581. Your louing Friende Edward Worsop An aduertisement to the Reader SCales compasses and sundry sorts of Geomatricall instruments in metall are to be had in the house of Humfrey Cole neere vnto the North dore of Paules and at the house of