A40002
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Englands happiness increased, or, A sure and easie remedy against all succeeding dear years by a plantation of the roots called potatoes, whereof (with the addition of wheat flower) excellent, good and wholesome bread may be made every year, eight or nine months together, for half the charge as formerly : also by the planting of these roots ten thousand men in England and Wales, who know not how to live or what to do to get a maintenance for their families, may of one acre of ground make thirty pounds per annum / invented and published for the good of the poorer sort, by John Forster ...
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Forster, John.
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1664
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Wing F1601; ESTC R40960
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16,456
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38
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A12915
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The commons complaint VVherein is contained tvvo speciall grieuances: The first, the generall destruction and waste of woods in this kingdome, with a remedy for the same: also how to plant wood according tyo the nature of euery soyle, without losse of any ground; and how thereby many more and better cattel may be yeerely bred, with the charge and profit that yeerely may arise thereby. The second grieuance is, the extreme dearth of victuals. Fovre remedies for the same. ...
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Standish, Arthur, fl. 1611-1613.
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1611
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STC 23201; ESTC S110882
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23,961
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47
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A07165
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A relation of Maryland together, vvith a map of the countrey, the conditions of plantation, his Majesties charter to the Lord Baltemore, translated into English.
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Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Maryland. aut
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1635
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STC 17571; ESTC S109930
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31,836
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90
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A45229
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The husbandman's jewel directing how to improve land from 10 l. per annum to 50 l. with small charge by planting ...
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Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
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1695
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Wing H3806; ESTC T36873
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39,874
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54
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A93639
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Adam out of Eden or, an abstract of divers excellent experiments touching the advancement of husbandry. Shewing, among very many other things, an aprovement of ground by rabbiss [sic],from 200 l. annual rent, to 2000 l. yearly profit, all charges deducted. / By Ad. Speed. Gent.
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Speed, Adolphus, fl. 1652-1659.
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1658
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Wing S4877; Thomason E2135_1; ESTC R203589
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41,178
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190
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A67093
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Vinetum Britannicum, or, A treatise of cider and such other wines and drinks that are extracted from all manner of fruits growing in this kingdom together with the method of propogating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees, and a description of the new-invented ingenio, or mill, for the more expeditious and better making of cider : and also, the right method of making metheglin and birch-wine : with copper-plates / by J.W., gent.
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Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698.
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1676
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Wing W3608; ESTC R7164
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81,142
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225
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A38421
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England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England.
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1682
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Wing E3027; ESTC R218203
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95,213
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312
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A26162
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The faithfull surveyour discovering divers errours in land measuring, and showing how to measure all manner of ground, and to plot it, and to prove the shutting by the chain onely ... / by George Atwell.
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Atwell, George.
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1658
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Wing A4163; ESTC R24190
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96,139
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143
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A80294
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The compleat planter & cyderist. Together with the art of pruning fruit-trees In two books. I. Containing plain directions for the propagating all manner of fruit-trees, and the most approved ways and methods yet known, for the making and ordering of cyder, and other English wines. II. The art of pruning, or lopping fruit-trees. With an explanation of some words which gardeners make use of, in speaking of trees. With the use of the fruits of trees for preserving us in health, or for curing us when we are sick. By a lover of planting.
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Lover of planting.; Colledge-Royal of Physicians at Rochelle. Approbation of the Colledge-Royal of Physicians at Rochelle.
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1690
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Wing C5650A; ESTC R230518
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156,388
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399
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A52534
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Campania fœlix, or, A discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry containing directions for all manner of tillage, pasturage, and plantation : as also for the making of cyder and perry : with some considerations upon I. Justices of the peace and inferior officers, II. On inns and alehouses, III. On servants and labourers, IV. On the poor : to which are added two essays : I. Of a country-house, II. Of the fuel of London / by Tim. Nourse, gent.
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Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699.
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1700
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Wing N1416; ESTC R30752
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181,404
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370
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A60464
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England's improvement reviv'd digested into six books / by Captain John Smith.
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Smith, John, fl. 1633-1673.
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1670
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Wing S4092; ESTC R22597
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189,167
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284
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A45756
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Samuel Hartlib, his legacy of husbandry wherein are bequeathed to the common-wealth of England, not onely Braband and Flanders, but also many more outlandish and domestick experiments and secrets (of Gabriel Plats and others) never heretofore divulged in reference to universal husbandry : with a table shewing the general contents or sections of the several augmentations and enriching enlargements in this third edition.
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Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.
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1655
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Wing H991; ESTC R3211
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220,608
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330
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A43467
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Reports and cases taken in the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh years of the late King Charles as they were argued by most of the King's sergeants at the Commonpleas barre / collected and reported, by that eminent lawyer, Sir Thomas Hetley Knight, sergeant at law, sometimes of the Honourable Society of Grayes-Inne, and appointed by the king and judges for one of he reporters of the law ; now Englished, and likewise of the cases, both alphabetical.
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Hetley, Thomas, Sir.; England and Wales. Court of Common Pleas.
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1657
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Wing H1627; ESTC R10743
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229,000
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204
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A20736
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Lectures on the XV. Psalme read in the cathedrall church of S. Paule, in London. Wherein besides many other very profitable and necessarie matters, the question of vsurie is plainely and fully decided. By George Dovvname, Doctor of Diuinitie. Whereunto are annexed two other treatises of the same authour, the one of fasting, the other of prayer.
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Downame, George, d. 1634.
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1604
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STC 7118; ESTC S110203
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278,690
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369
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A67083
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Systema agriculturæ, the mystery of husbandry discovered treating of the several new and most advantagious ways of tilling, planting, sowing, manuring, ordering, improving of all sorts of gardens, orchards, meadows, pastures, corn-lands, woods & coppices, as also of fruits, corn, grain, pulse, new-hays, cattle, fowl, beasts, bees, silk-worms, &c. : with an account of the several instruments and engines used in this profession : to which is added Kalendarium rusticum, or, The husbandmans monthly directions, also the prognosticks of dearth, scarcity, plenty, sickness, heat, cold, frost, snow, winds, rain, hail, thunder, &c. and Dictionarium rusticum, or, The interpretation of rustick terms, the whole work being of great use and advantage to all that delight in that most noble practice.
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Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698.
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1675
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Wing W3599; ESTC R225414
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330,040
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361
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A36795
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The history of imbanking and drayning of divers fenns and marshes, both in forein parts and in this kingdom, and of the improvements thereby extracted from records, manuscripts, and other authentick testimonies / by William Dugdale.
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Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686.
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1662
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Wing D2481; ESTC R975
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640,720
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507
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A49578
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The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry, in six books : to which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions / by the famous Monsr De La Quintinye ... ; made English by John Evelyn ... ; illustrated with copper plates.; Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers. English
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La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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1693
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Wing L431; ESTC R212118
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799,915
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521
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A43514
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Cosmographie in four bookes : containing the chorographie and historie of the whole vvorld, and all the principall kingdomes, provinces, seas and isles thereof / by Peter Heylyn.; Microcosmus
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Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662.
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1652
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Wing H1689; ESTC R5447
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2,118,505
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1,140
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