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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

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

of Atheisme Thus we all must beleeue and so I hope we doe vnlesse there be any of so desperate and cursed opinion that thinks there is no God to blesse and helpe their increase which God forbid that her Maiesties dominions should beare any such detestable and cursed imps and lims of Sathan to rest on this earth that should so much as giue any cause of suspition of any such abomination so as many as doe so well begin the day with the seruice of God may cheerefullie expect from the Almightie a blessing vpon their labours who promiseth to blesse the worke of our hands if we feare him And to proceede in this argument yet a little further in our Husbandrie which no doubt may be yet exceeding lie furthered diuers waies in this time so well gained as first to make great choise of our Seede corne for as Master Plat well saith euerie corne that is within the eare is not apt to grow for God hath created some of them for the food of liuing creatures and some for seed The choise of the seede the killing of the weede and resting of the land and time so well gained to doe all this and serue God too is like to bring a good increase There be in euerie eare certaine abortiue or bastardlie cornes small and whinderlings which will hardlie grow and are vnprofitable for any good increase but there are other cornes which are bigger and fairer then the rest which no doubt God by nature hath ordained for good and great increase and therefore seeing you haue so much leisure you may spend more time in picking your Seede corne after corne if you thinke good The best way to make choise of your seede But indeed the best way and most speedie is to put the corne into a tub of water and so the most heauie corne will soonest sinke to the bottome and the lightest with other seedes which were wont to be sowen you may take presentlie away for els in a small time the lighter will also sinke by taking water to make it heauie also But you must doe this but a little before you intend to sow it and in doing whereof you may helpe your Seed corne verie much as it were with a dunging as I my selfe haue done my Seede barlie When the yeere hath prooued drie at Barlie seed time I haue caused certaine wotting fattes or tubs vsed for Malting to be filled with water and caused Cow dung and Pigeon dung to be put into the same water stirring it together and it hath stood a day or two but the longer the better with often stirring it Then haue I let or powred out the same water from the dung and put it into other cleane vessels and then I put in my Seede all day and all night and the next day tooke it out and laid it vpon a floore to dry it fit to handle and cast abroad by sowing And trulie that Barlie hath shot an eare as soone as other that was sowen some fourteene daies before it Whereof in my opinion one great commoditie dooth follow in that the corne speciallie Barlie at that time of the yeere commeth away so speedelie that it out groweth all the weedes who are the chiefe and deadlie enemies to all corne Thus the corne may flourish and be master of the field like a braue Captaine for so no doubt hee getteth better roote to begin the world with and more heart to continue and bring foorth increase more aboundantlie when it hath at first gotten the start and vpper hand of his mortall enemies One hundred and twentie daies yet spared for good Husbands to inrich their land and themselues This picking and watring worke is fittest to be performed by the good wife and her maides and children at home and our hundred and twentie daies that wee spared from plowing as aforesaid yet giueth more time to the good man and his Ploughmen with their Teemes to fetch Marle of Chalk or of any other kind of soile fit for the condition of their land if it be possible to be had as no doubt it is in most places though in some they may happen to goe farre for it but in sixe or seuen weekes part of the foresaid time a Teeme will carrie much though it be farre to fetch Further also those that haue sower barren colde grounds may in this time all by leisure follow the example of the Cornish and Deuonshire men that beate and burne their land which no doubt is an excellent peece of good Husbandrie and now vsed by good Husbands in manie places of England and Wales A commendation of Cornewall and Deuonshire And whereof Cornewall and Deuon hath so tasted the benefit that whereas of late time Cornewall was wont to haue most of their bread-corne by sea from other countries now by this meanes they haue great plentie to spare and send ouer much by sea into other countries There will be manie other profitable workes found out by manie good Husbands to keepe their people and Teemes at worke The Plow and the Spade very good frīeds allow each others worke for setting as the place requireth if it please them and such as haue a better minde to vse the Spade to set their Corne and so by experience shall finde much better increase which I will not denie but it may be so nor discommend the industrious inuention and practise of the Spade and speciallie for setting of poore people to worke which indeede is a matter of great regard which by no meanes I would hinder for as in this action by setting of Corne the chiefe and principall respect is the sauing of such a goodlie deale of Seede Corne yeerelie so fondlie cast away as before is shewed so speciallie by setting of Corne the poorest and most miserable people that can otherwise earne little or nothing shall now be set to worke because they are best cheape to be hired and are as well able to performe this worke as the lustie labourers that sometime in some countries no reasonable wages will intertaine them Middlesex Kent and places neere the mightie citie of London these are fit for rich men and to be imployed in rich land where the owners may haue rich crops to pay such great wages to such proud labourers and seruants that will serue and worke where they list and haue what wages they list and then doe what they list make what lawes and statutes her Maiestie her Councell and the Parliament can deuise I meane such seruants as intend not to serue their masters faithfullie for their masters profit but for their owne amongst whom there are manie theeues which some Gentlemen Farmers and other with their wiues and children haue dearely paid for to their great and importable losse and hindrance This proud kinde of slouens and sluts which some masters haue and doe keepe from the halter haue no need to be pitied but rather to be punished A reward for