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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11936	The perfect vse of silk-vvormes, and their benefit With the exact planting, and artificiall handling of mulberrie trees whereby to nourish them, and the figures to know how to feede the wormes, and to winde off the silke. And the fit maner to prepare the barke of the white mulberrie to make fine linnen and other workes thereof. Done out of the French originall of D'Oliuier de Serres Lord of Pradel into English, by Nicholas Geffe Esquier. With an annexed discourse of his owne, of the meanes and sufficiencie of England for to haue abundance of fine silke by feeding of silke-wormes within the same; as by apparent proofes by him made and continued appeareth. For the generall vse and vniuersall benefit of all those his countrey men which embrace them. Neuer the like yet here discouered by any.; Theatre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs. Part 5. Chapter 15. English	Serres, Olivier de, 1539-1619.; Geffe, Nicholas.	1607 (1607)	STC 22249; ESTC S117159	60,238	108

by such default it hath remained without name many ages Virgil discourses as by passing of the rich fleece that the Forrests of Ethiopia Setes brought forth without mentioning the quality or meanes to gather it See in these words Virg. Georg. 11. Quid nemora Aethiop●●m molli canentia lana Velleraque vt folijs depectant tenuia Seres The first notice of silke at Rome From whence some as Solin and Sernius haue thought this to be Silke and that to proceed directly of the trees Such hath been the first notice of the Silke giuen in Italie which was in the raigne of the Emperour Octauius Augustus confirmed by Plinie more then seuenty yeeres after for hee liued in the time of Vespatian he ther to addeth that in the I le of Coos there growe Cypres trees Turpentine trees Ashes and Okes of the leaues of which trees fallen to the ground in maturity through humiditie of the same breede wormes bringing forth silke That in Assyria the Silke-worme called by the Greekes and Latines Bombyx makes his neast vpon the earth which he fastens to the stones where it hardneth very much remaining there conferued all the yeere that makes webs after the fashion of Spiders Aristotle also saith that in the I le of Coos Pamphyllia daughter of L●tous was the first inuentris of spinning and weauing silke by the which intricate and folded vp discourses compared to the practick of these times appeareth how far off the ancients were from the true knowledge of the Silke-worme hauing not knowne from whence they came nor how they are nourished so by their silence they witnesse in holding their peace of the egges and the leaues of the Mulberries for their food V●piscus witnesseth that in the time of the Emperour Aurelian two hundred yeeres after Vespatian and more silke was sold for the weight of gold for which dearnes but especially for modesty he would neuer weare to be all of silke but mingled with other matter although Heliogabalus his predecessor was not so sparing as saith Lampridius Like modestie is noted of King Henry the second which would neuer weare silke stockings although that in his time the vse of them was then receiued in France Many others in divers times haue spoken of the silke as Solin Marcelin and S●r●in● which name the Silke-worme Zir from whence comes the Latin wood Siricam that is to say Silke as witnesseth Pausanias in his description of Greece Martial also makes mention of the silke by these verses Nec vaga tam tenui disc●rs●t aranea tela Tam leue nec Bombyx pendulus vrget opus And of the work of Silk-wormes Propertius saith Nec si qua Arabia lucet Bombyce puella Vlpian an auncient Lawyer speaketh of the silke in the title De Auro Argento Legato in this sort vestimentorum sunt omnia lanea lineaque vel serica bombycina c. It is a thing receiued of al that the inhabitants The beginning of the silke of the country of Seres first of al manifested the silke hauing brought the seed from the I le Taprobane otherwise Sumata situate vnder the Aequinoctiall in longitude from them of forty sixe to forty eight degrees of latitude The country of Seres so called of a citie of the Prouince is that which at this day is named Cattay and Cambalis in East Asia adioyning on the West to Scytia Asiatick and of the South to the Indies gouerned by the great Cham of Tartary At the lēgth these things came to light by two Monks which brought from Sera a citie of the country of Cattay the graine of Silke-wormes to Iustinian to Constantinople the raigne of which Emperour began the yeere of Christ 526. from whence the knowledge of rearing and bringing vp this creature is dispersed throughout all Europe So Procopius hath written after many other From the citie of Panorme Where first of all the silke was wrought in Europ and finally in Scicile is come the manner to vse the silke where first of all it was shewed by the meanes of certaine workmen in this arte brought thither prisoners by ●●ger King of the for●said I le of Scicile in the time of the Emperor Conrade Lastly these excellent sciences haue takē footing in certain Prouinces of this realm but by tract of time and distances not all at once For as God hath accustomed to distribute his benefits by little and little so much the better to make vs relish his graces so the knowledge of the Mulberry tree hath first been giuen vnto vs after that the vse of it to the end to make prouision of food before we charge our selues with the creature In what time and in what Prouince of this kingdom I will not here reckon the causes and times of their more forward bringing in into this Realme but in the raigne of Charles the 8. in the voyage that this King made to the kingdome of Naples the yeere a thousand foure hundred fourescore and foureteene some Gentlemen of his traine hauing noted the richnes of the silke at their returne home did affect to prouide their houses of such commoditie Afterwardes the warres of Italy ending they sent to Naples to fetch plāts of Mulberries which they placed in Prouence by reason of the little distance of climates of each countrey making the enterprise easie Some say it was in the borders of such a prouince ioyned with that of Dauphine where the Mulberries first grew marking also Alan neere to Montellimar which was then planted by the meanes of his Lord which accōpanied the King in his voyage As the old great white Mulberries yet at this day to be seene giue some assurance But be it there or elsewhere it is certaine that in diuers places of Prouence Langredoc Dauphine the principalitie of Crenge and aboue all the Countie of Venessaine and the Arshbish opricke of Auignon for the great commerce that they haue with the Italians the Mulberries and their seruice are at this present verie well knowne there also the handling of the silke appeareth in great beautie where continually increaseth an earnest desire to plant Mulberries for the experimented commoditie which comes of them In sūme there the Mulberry is held for the most assured pennie falling into the purse At Toures this busines is already receiued with great profit and applause and certaine yeeres since hath begun to manifest it selfe at Caen in low Normandy yet vnknowne to the Silk wil come faire good throughout al this Realme a few places excepted rest of this kingdome through the carelesse retchlesnesse of the inhabitants and to the great shame almost of all these prouinces seeing that in them the Mulberrie and Silk-worme may liue and profit For the affection I beare to the publike I haue in the beginning of the yeere a thousand fiue hundred eightie nine caused to bee printed a particular Treatise of this foode and norture intituled The gathering of the Silke and addressed it to those