Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	lord_n	part_n	tenant_n	1,512	5	9.6400	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45751	A discoverie for division or setting out of land, as to the best form published by Samuel Hartlib esquire, for direction and more advantage and profit of the adventurers and planters in the fens and other waste and undisposed places in England and Ireland ; whereunto are added some other choice secrets of experiments of husbandry ; with a philosophical quere concerning the cause of fruitfulness, and an essay to shew how all lands may be improved in a new way to become the ground of the increase of trading and revenue to this common-wealth.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Dymock, Cressy. Discovery for new divisions, or, setting out of lands.	1653 (1653)	Wing H985; ESTC R9861	21,776	42

Bank or high way with the two great Drains on each side of the same A the Bank B the 2 great Drains on each side C the foure lesser Drains D the great Ditches or Cuts to each Farm E the like Cuts to the little Farms F the main River G the Cut from the four best Farms to that River H the Farm-houses and home-stalls of the great Farms I the lesser Farm Houses K the marks ●f division to the Farms L the mark of the ring hedge Ditch or wall M the four first great Farms N the 12 other great Farms This may serve as the plot of another greater Mannor of 2000 Acres wherein the four middle Tenements may be made into a grand Farm or the Lords Demains And then there remains twelve great Farms of 100 Acres apiece and 16 lesser Farms of 25 Acres apice whose in●abitants being supposed labourers lie cōveniently to serve either the Lord or the greater Farms All which may be cast into either form Round or Square though for my part I judge the round in the square the best and most convenient A DISCOVERY For New DIVISIONS OR Setting out of LANDS as to the best Forme Imparted in a Letter to Samuel Hartlib Esquire HONOURED SIR I Here present you with a plain Discovery of that prudentiall Contrivance for the more advantageous setting out of Lands which I have formerly acquainted you with and as you know offered in vain to some of the Company of Drayners of the great Fen as I had opportunity That so I may not onely gratifie your Publique-heartednesse and great Zeal for the Common good and testific my willingnesse to be doing some good in my generation as God shall enable me but that I may in some sort be blamelesse to all Posterity though those Lands be not well divided or sub-divided since I have not onely offered my assistance such as it is in private but do here and suppose not altogether too late freely offer it to the consideration of all men that are or may be concerned in the same or the like nature of what better use Lands divided or subdivided according to the Plats here intended to every mans view may be found or esteemed And lest any mistake should be in the not rightly understanding my meaning or the nature of the thing give me leave to trouble the World with a few of my Reasons for or apprehensions of that Advantage or Conveniency which may be more had and obtained by following this Example I have been even called to a more then ordinary use of and love to all sorts of Husbandry and particularly to Agriculture wherein God hath been graciously pleased to recompence my Zeal and indeavour with an increase of knowledge and experience in the wayes of managing Agriculture and Husbandry in all its parts and that not onely according to what is commonly known and practised but by some Additionals which if well accepted and rightly pursued would tend exceedingly to the prosperity honour and plenty of this whole Nation but of this as I have formerly acquainted you more largely for you have thought fit to hint it to the World in your Reformed Husbandman I shall therefore proceed and say that that dear and even naturall affection which I have to Husbandry above all other employments among men may perhaps have occasioned my further enquiry into these affairs and by those observations to which I have given my selfe more then every man I may have attained to farther insight then every man hath troubled himself to take which I freely present to my Native Countrey at least so much as concerns the matter here in Question namely The setting out of Land as to the best Forme I have observed that all or most part of the Lands Lordships Mannors Parishes Farmes and particular Grounds or Closes in England are not or rather were not at that time past when they were first set out in any good Forme too much of England being left as waste ground in Commons Mores Heaths Fens Marishes and the like which are all Waste Ground but some more some lesse some being made a little better use of then others but all capable of very great Improvement as not now yielding not one of forty of them through England the one fourth part of that profit either to private or publique which they are respectively capable of I have observed in all places in England the great inconveniences that come by the Want of Enclosure both to private and publique the irregularity of these Lands that are inclosed the frequent and as things now stand in relation to time past and Land already set out unremediable intanglements or intermixture of Interest of severall persons in the same Common in the same Field in the same Close nay sometimes in the same Acre The inconvenient passages made or allowed between divers grounds and that not onely when they belong to severall men but even when one man is owner of divers grounds and the truth is either he that is possest of Lands is a Lord or Tenant if Lord he seldome alters that Form he found his Lands in whether he received them by Inheritance or purchase and if but Tenant he would count it for the most part lost labour although he did indeed understand both the inconvenience and the right remedy but I fear neither Lord nor Tenant do so or at least so as to lay to heart the Crosses or Losses they or their neighbours do too frequently sustain meerly upon this accompt or are too carelesse or desperate of the remedie I have observed the carelessenesse and wickednesse of Servants and bad neighbours both which a man shall be sure to meet let him remove as often and to what place he will I have observed the proneness most of Cattel Poultry to break into forbidden places but above all others commonly kept in England not to speak of Deer and Goats or of wilde fowl or the like Swine Coneys and Pigeons and some sorts of Poultry at some seasons are most inclined to and frequent actors of mischief and that so great that men dare hardly consider it seriously but let it passe to avoid vexation Who is it that lives a Countrey-life but knowes or may know and upon enquiry finde that one pair of old Pigeons eates of one sort or another of Corn and grain in the year at least 6 bushels that there are almost if not altogether as many such pairs of Pidgeons as there are men women and children in England and it is plain they can get none but either of what you have sowne or of what you should reap or of the sheadings in the field which were better bestowed on your Swine or Poultry or out of your barne or rick or threshing-floor from whence I suppose you cannot well spare it or from the manger standing racks or dunghill all which your pigs and hens must want so much I conclude as to this Creature that there is no such