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A14287	Most approued, and long experienced vvater-vvorkes Containing, the manner of winter and summer-drowning of medow and pasture, by the aduantage of the least, riuer, brooke, fount, or water-prill adiacent; there-by to make those grounds (especially if they be drye) more fertile ten for one. As also a demonstration of a proiect, for the great benefit of the common-wealth generally, but of Hereford-shire especially. / By Rowland Vaughan, Esquire.	Vaughan, Rowland, fl. 1610.; Davies, John, 1565?-1618.	1610 (1610)	STC 24603; ESTC S119037	58,167	143

man of worth It may be thought I praise to thee ascribe As part mine owne so falsely set thee forth But those so thinking when thy Worth they prooue With mee will thee both honor praise and loue Your poore kinsman and honorer of true vertue in whome so-euer IOHN DAVIES of Hereford In praise of this no lesse pleasant then most profitable worke LOe heere a worke a worke nay more then so A worke of workes for all it doth containe Makes wealth by Water ouer Land to floe Where-to workes runne that reach to honest gaine Then hast thou Land and Water there-with-all A little Land and Water so may stand That Land shall rise by that small Waters fall To high esteeme and raise thee with that Land This is no Dreame or if a Dreame it bee It is a Golden one and shewes by It That golden Worlds of wealth shall compasse thee If in this dreame thou art this worke of Witte Then shalt thou waking see for thine auaile Thy Grasse all Golde as in the Golden-Vale Iohn Strangwage In Libri Auctorem THe Bee is little yet esteemed much With no lesse cause for Workes as sweete as rare Who but with Dewes doe make their owners rich And but for others worke with ceaslesse care Then here 's a hony Bee that but with Dewes Exchequer'd in some Trench as in a Hiue Sowre grounds with Milke and Hony ouer-flowes Whereon both Hee and Others sweetly liue Which not so much for his owne good he gets Though like a Bee at need hee feedes thereon But to fill others too with honyed Sweets So with a Bee holds iust comparison In this they differ Bees for this doe dye But Hee for this shall liue immortally Robt Corbet In praise of this most profitable worke NO Plant can prosper if it water wants Nor Herbage flourish in a thirsty soile But giue that Drinke with water ply your Plants And both will yeeld you profit for your toyle Some Grounds yeeld Cellers wherein Nature putts Her choisest liquers to refresh the Mould There Founts and Channels for their Streames she cuts To cheere the Grounds where they their course do hold But Natures prouidence but little bootes Where water runnes at waste along the Land None giuing drinke vnto the thirsty Rootes Out of those Cellers being hard at hand Then to the Common and the Priuate weale How deere is hee that doth this arte reueale Henry Fletcher To the worthy Author and his worke VAVGHAN thou hast a Soule surmounting Soules In high Conceit and Action whose bright fire Mounts to the Spheare that Gaine to Glory rowles Which Men still seeke and Gods them-selues desire Who for thy countries profit doest not spare Thy Paines thy Meanes thy Body and thy Minde VVhose will is bent to make all well to fare By honest labour in a diuerse kinde A Proiect heere thou hast in pleasant phrase Obiected to the worlds Desiring-eye That while some practise some it doth amaze To see men mar'd soone made againe thereby Then sith like God thou canst make Men of Clods VVe needs must ranke thee with the Semy-gods Richard Harries In praise of these most praise worthy Water-workes BY Fire-workes many haue exploited things Past all beliefe and made the World admire Which Element beeing on her flaming Wings So Actiue is that all it strikes is Fire That comes to nought that so is ouer-come But these rich Water-workes worke leisurely Most quick increase in Earths most barren VVombe VVhich beares what One doth ten times sextuply Then who beleeues by Fire to finde that Stone Proiecting Gold much erre in that their Creede Sith it is Earth that 's kindly ouer-flowne That is the Stone indeed that does the Deed Then would'st thou make pure Gold ore-flow thy land So shall thy Soile be turn'd to golden Sand. Siluanus Dauies In praise of this as pleasant as profitable worke WOuld'st haue great pleasure then take paines to read This little Tract which little paines will doe Look'st thou for profit then thou heere maist speed VVhere pleasure great brings forth great profit too Vpon a Subiect rude as is the Earth Neuer was Pleasure so predominant Nor ne're so blithe was profit at her birth As here sith here she is so puissant All famous Writers still directly shott The Shafts of their Indeuours at these two For hitting these they gaine and glory gott The gaine of Loue and Learnings glory too Then loue and laud him who hath close compact Pleasure and profit for thee in this Tract Tho Rant In the praise of the Author and his effectuall workes DEere Rowland let thine Oliuer haue leaue Among thy Lauders his short Breath to spend To helpe them so to Heau'n thy fame to heaue VVhose Workes are Meanes t'an Earthly-heau'nly End Then Rowland take me with Thee Here and There That Rowland still may haue his Oliuer Oliuer Maynson In praise of the VVorke and Author MY little ROWLAND you may looke that I All things considered MVCH should say of you Then this your WORKE to say that MVCH in few Shall worke the Workers endlesse Praise and why A worldly Witt with Heau'nly Helpes indow'd Getts Ground and Glory of the Multitude Iohn Hoskins Once more for a Farewell In deserued praise of this neuer-too-much praysed Worke. GOod VVine doth need no Bush Lord who can tell How oft this old-said-Saw hath prais'd new Bookes But yet good VVater drawne from Founts and Brookes By Sluce the Signe makes dry Groundes drinke it well Men may haue store of VVater and dry Land Yet if they draw it not through Trenches fitt By Sluce that shewes how well to vtter it It idely runnes while scarse the Owners stand Good Water then by Sluce through Trench must passe For good returne that else runnes to no end VVhich Signe doth draw it in it selfe to spend On dryest Grounds that drunken cast vp Grasse VVhich giddy Simily in sober Sence Shewes the Effect of this VVorkes excellence Iohn Dauies THE AVTHOR I Would not feare with Cinick Doggs to fight Came they in Front But this will ill be borne Perhaps some Curres behind my Backe will bite But that 's their shame my glory it to scorne ROVVLAND VAVGHAN TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE VVILIAM EARLE OF PEMBROOKE LORD HERBERT OF CARDIFFE MARmion and S. Quintin Lord Parre of Rosse and Kendall Lord Warden of the Stanneries Captaine of his Maiesties Garrison-towne of Portesmouth and Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter My most honoured and respected Lord. MOST HONOVRABLE and my Noblest Lord I haue out of my liues experience prepared a Watry workemanshipp which I thinke the Gods forbad the excellent creatures in former times to handle but I haue performed That that hath begott a world of worke in Me which some men say will either impayre my witt or hazard my estate they said so in the execution of my water-workes but they ouer-said them-selues and the most part haue giuen mee satisfaction by maine submission or reconciliation I doubt not but

euery person Hee had no sooner receiued the benefit of this Benifice but the principall of his parishoners told mee I had planted a Machiuel amongst them a cunning Pollitician and an horrible vsurer making complaint to the Bishop therof But my good Lord because he had bin my seruant I praide the Bishop with patience to heare his defence and for that time preuented the likely-hood of his disgrace Where-vpon I wrought with him to depart with that thing and had agreed for his remooue with a purpose as the Bishop doth know to plant a famous Preacher there and told him all my intendiments and to that end I most humbly praide the Bishop that it would please his Lordship to giue liberty to one of his Chaplins a learned and vertuous man Maister Best to bee the man That one liuing of his not able to maintaine a preaching Minister there was one other ioyning there-vnto which wee purpose to vnite Hauing gotten the consent of the Lord Bishop with promise of his best indeuour But my honorable Lord here comes in the hindrer of the saluation of soules this counterfeit Puritane this Machiuillian this politician Vsurer by the gift of a friendlye Patron hath as yet gone beyond the vniting of these Churches and disapointed vs of our Preaching Minister as I learnt by plaine symonie and some treachery withall to his old Maister There were not two Sermons in the Golden-Vale this 500. yeares vnlesse some Circumselion came by chance vntill my Lord his Grace that now is of Canterburie his comming to that See Now whether we deserue to haue a Preaching Minister or no we appeale to the VVorld There was an old Monke vppon the dissolution of the Abbey of Doier that was cast from thence came vnto the place where this Minister serues Hee did expound without licence deuide and seuer the corps of the word from the Spirit so spoyling the Scripture with idle inuentions that at his end he left neither Protestant Puritane nor Papist but a few of the simpler sort more inclined to Masse then to sound Religion And of late the late Canons do straightly appoint foure Sermons yearly In this manner My Lord this Machiuilian Polititian and Vserer hauing gotten two Benifices thinks it sufficient with his eight-quarter Sermons in his two Churches to cleare the infection which the old Monke bred Hee not cunning ynough to dresse and cure the crazed of his flocke hath onely iudgement with his Hooke to catch and hold a sheepe which by ouer-hard handling hee doth so bruize that now they can by no meanes indure that all-catching-fast-holding Instrument And of late hath lent a young Preacher being his prime practise ten pound in money to make eight quarter-sermons yearly which Preacher venters his life sixteene-times ouer the great Riuer of Wye and as many more vpp and downe a huge hill lying in his way the danger of the least of which is able so to distract a good Schollers memory as to forgette a Sermon well pend and no worse cond I haue wondred many times of the young Preacher who did but learne to preach the other day how hee was furnished with one in the fore-noone and another in the after Heerein shall I vse your Lordshipps meanes that wee may haue this Vserer remoued It must bee done and I thinke this to be the best meanes Your Lordshipp may commend him to some strange Ambassadour out of Asia or Africke not in Europe hee will learne the Language instantly Hee is fit for any strange Religion Hee will serue for an Intelligencer to execute any cunning Stratagem belonging to matters of State When your Lordshipp hath vnderstood the trunesse of all my inuention which happily you will runne ouer withall expedition like an old Priest reading an Homily to taske which I wish not Then will you vndo all the hopes I haue in with-standing the pride of many ill speakers If you doe not particularly examine that you may bee able to defend and report that wee build no Monasteries nor succor Seminaries nor much respect vn-preaching Ministers Wee build our Church which is downe A Chappell for Prayer for all my Mechanicals A famous Preacher to rectifie their hearts and shew them the way to Heauen These with an Almes-house my Lord to prouide for the ouer-aged persons lame blinde and all such as necessity doth cause to for-beare their own gettings Your Lordship doth see I am no Papist nor Puritane but a true Protestant according to the Kings Iniunctions And where the Puritans babble against one Minister to haue two Liuings lett the Superintendant of them with some other of their purified number come to the Hundred I dwell in which is Weabtre I will shew them foure and twenty parishes not any one of all able to maintain a Preaching Minister If these be they whome they call Puritans that speake against a Preacher to haue two or three Liuings together in my Hundred I wish I were a poore Burges of the honourable house of Parliament then would I indeauor to diet them so for Liuings that I would make them fast Extempore as well as pray and preach as the Spirit prompts The most men now doe say if I hadde money ynough I might performe my vndertakings So my Lord if a man had money ynongh with the LORDS permission Hee might build a Towre of Babell I cannot see how mony can be wanting I haue so many honourable friendes Lords Spirituall and Temporall Bishopp Babington Bishopp Benet and Bishoppe Parrie graue and venerable Prelates of the Kingdome Lords Temporall Your Lordshippe my Lord of Montgomery with many other great Lordes my Kinsmen I meane not to trouble Only my deare Lord the Lord cheefe Iustice and one Iudge more who is a Lord in Westminster Hall I hope to see him a Lord to the last And doe tell your Lordshippe betwixt you and mee bee it spoken Hee is one of the best Lawyers in the Land else very good ones are deceiued and though hee bee so let him vse what dilatory Plea hee list to putte me off I meane to putt his Pursse to the push of the pike Hee sayd hee would doe nothing therein but hee sware not or if hee had I know hee makes a difference betwixt Mee and a Rash oth But to our purpose Your Lordshipp is now become Generall of that Army and I your Lieutenant If any muteny against our Common-wealth or speake out of a hott brain'd humor that that they vnderstand not My Lord silence them with your wisedome or defie them with your power which can neuer bee better imploid in worldly respects then for the protection of a Common-good Though all the world should say I should want money in my first beginnings yet I thanke God they cannot say I want honorable friends such as the Lord Bishops your Lordships with others which may lend me money if please you and them I wil not for a million anger any of you to

beeing extracted out of mine owne meanes I signified in mine Epistle to your Lordshipp A dining-roome to entertaine a world of worthy beneuolent Contributers The Table perpetually furnished to intertaine forty of those Contributers dayly in expectancy A hundred Artificers subiect to the Seruice of the Table Twenty fiue attending at Dinner and twenty-fiue at supper fifty more on the morrow and so the hundred Artificers shall attend the Table in this manner Dayly and Perpetually In recompence whereof they receiue the benefit of the Reuersion with all the comfort I can afford them All the Artificers to attend the Preacher to Sermon and home againe The Visitor of the Negligencers Attendant to informe their misdemenors to the chiefe of the Company if there bee cause that no common Swearer Drunkard nor Swaggerer shall liue within the limits of my allowance His first offence warned the second punished the third discharged for euer from the place Euery Artificer shall vnto euery Contributor at their comming thether humble them-selues with all respectiue obedience acknowledging them by word and deed to be the Founders of their well-doing and happy Common-wealth The Dining-roome wainscoted and fairly hang'd with Arras Touching the Fare to bee serued to the Table dayly and perpetually forty full dishes of variety of meats with a Pasty of Venison to Dinner and another to supper when they are in season A Sentinell sett from ten to eleuen in a Turret for discouery to see what Contributer comes If a Foot-man dwelling in the neighbourhood he giues the Larum by the toule of a Bell signifying him to bee a Foot-man which heard then the Drumme soundes If a Horse-man by the Larum hee signifies him to bee a Horse-man and then the Trumpet soundes And vpon their comming into the Dining-roome All Officers of the company intertaine the Contributers with all ioy and merryment the wind Instrument with all sortes of Musicke plaies Dinner and Supper and to adde all the comfortable contentment to all Contributers from Bartholomew day to Mid-may The Groome of the Chamber shall at his perill prepare a good fire with Ashe Hawthorne and Char-cole My LORD that honourable and most worthy Iudge the Lord Chiefe Iustice Poppham hearing of my Drownings said Cousin how dost thou drowne I told him by helpe of a Riuer or Brooke by Weare and sluce to take part or all into my Trench-royall What 's thy Trench royall saith hee As a Cesterne in your Lordshipps house that serues all Offices My Trench-royal serues my Counter Trenches my Defending-Trenches my Topping or Brauing-Trenches my Winter and Sommer-Trenches my Double and Treble-trenches a trauersing-trench with a point And my Euerlasting-trench with other troublesome trenches which in my Mapp I wil more exactly demonstrate The good Lord hearing all these wordes able to raise a Spirit sayd Cousin art thou out of thy witts My Lord for distinction sake said I I must giue them significant names such as my seruants attending my Winter and Sommer-Drownings may vnderstand to execute my commands So my Lord I hauing giuen satisfaction to the honourable person I will make it most plainly appeare to your Lordshippe how fecible this Worke is that all Cynick-Doggs or Lamb-biters may with shame be silenced and their foule Mouthes muzled It is yet wondered at by almost all how a particular and priuate Gentleman should bee able to bring all this to passe But my good Lord on my behalf I humbly pray you to pray all of the better sort to bee sparing of their censures herein for artlesse Aimes seldome hitts the marke I would that no man should say I doe it out of ambition or other sinister respect for the Rule of Charity is in cases doubtfull wee should iudge the best But if any notwithstanding should bee so iniurious to say so then my LORD they may say the Clothier the habitation for Artificers the Chappell and Preacher Curate Almes-house My Table for the benefit of poore Artificers and whatsoeuer else is good yea a Common-good is out of ambition I hope my good Lord I shall heare no more of such Obiections if I doe though I am no Poet yet I can make Ballads To the tune of vp-tayls-all For I le lash them Ifayth with Rimes that shall make it rancle where they fall But to take away the wonder of the World and to giue satis-faction to the enuious-vnsatisfied I can keepe three hundred Kine three hundred young Cattell three thousand Sheepe all these Winter and Sommer Hauing besides ten Plough-Land all hard at hand foure Milles as neare and within two mile of the place Tymber sufficient for all my Buildings And Fire-wood ynough for all the Artificers the Inholder and the rest Wallstone Tyle Lime and Bricke as necessary as any man liuing My good LORD I doe not thus Inuentory my Estate and paint forth the Particulers as if I were to sell it by the Drumme or as looking thereon with Vaine-gloryous Eyes No no my good LORD nothing lesse for there is no such cause I am the more sorry But I doe it perforce to giue the doubtfull Inquisitor satisfaction for the setling of his beleefe herein That I attempt nothing with out the limmitts of mine owne strength But now your Lordshippe shall heare an end of the VVonder All men wil confesse three hundred Kine wil raise Braunes Bacons Porks Piggs Geese Turkeis Capons Hens Chickens Ducks the like They wil confes ten Plow-land in seuerall places all with-in a myle with my Tithe-barnes will do the like They will confesse my foure Milles beeing within a flight shoote one of another will doe the like They will confesse my Brew-house my Backe-house my Kitchin my Beare-seller my shambles and the water from my Vtingvats will doe the like Besides in a M●ste-yeare I can feed a world of Hogges Your Lordship sees I am forc'd to doe and ouer-doe as one that must doe All else nothing will bee done I thinke I haue besturd my selfe pritty well to make the whole world wonder at mee Your Lordshipp shall now see what benefit I receiue for the perpetuall continuance of this Table The Butter and Cheese of my three hundred Kine I sell and furnish the Clothyer his Broadeweauers Spinners Carders the rest with all the Mechanicalls there-with The Corne of ten Plowlands Wheate Rye Malt made in my own Killing I grinde at my owne Milles Bak'd Brewed in my Bake-house and Brew-house and sold to the foresaid persons My Wooll my Muttons Lambes and culld-sheepe of my three thousand I sell to the sayde persons I sell yearely one hundred of my eldest Oxen Kine and my cul'd young Cattell fatte to the persons aforesaid I sell yearely one hundred of my eldest Oxen Kine and my cul'd young-cattell fat to the persons aforesaid I finde all Artificers and In-keepers wood which will bee ten times more profitable vnto me then now Let Men iudge what benefit I may make of my Brew-house and what of my

as my Sluces were downe the Water did rise to the leuell of the Greene-sward the Sluces beeing vppe the Water suncke vnto his ordinary course againe So hadde I the commaund of the Sluces to ryse and sinke the Water at my pleasure Hauing leuelled the Trench I put eight Labourers to worke therein who during the whole day wrought but one Pearch which was but sixe foote broad and three foot deep To whome I said when I perceiued how little they had done in a day I see now it 's true as the Country saith It will cost me a thousand Markes ere I effect this VVorke if it go no better forward They said vnto me they did their best indeauor But after they had taken some halfe a foot of the greene sward or face of the ground away they could not force their spades or spittels one inch deepe the hardnesse of the Earth was such and wish'd mee to giue ouer that vnder-taking It was some-what before Michelmas the Winter-raine not hauing suppled or mollified the ground any whit at al I commanded them to attend their labour on the morrow then did I cause them to run forty pearches in length six foot broad but halfe a foot deepe which halfe-foote deepe the spades did easily enter And so for that day I ended with them Then they demaunded what imployment I would putt them to the next morrow I bad them good night and willed them to bee there very early in the morning After they were gon I caus'd my man to let downe the sluces and raise the VVater to the height thereof and Sodainly the Trench flowing it entred with such puissance as if it would haue dissolued the very Bowels of the Ground Then early before their comming my Seruant tooke vp the Sluces sunke the VVater and gaue it the liberty of the maine Riuer that they the next day easily forced their spades two foote deepe and more And in this manner with the water I suppled the Trench from the beginning to the end saued thereby a hundred pound at least Many worthy and expert men haue written of the breeding of Cattell whose indeauours I much reuerence and referre them to bee commended by Posterity Yet will I venter to lay downe mine experience in the younger sort for the Falling VVeaning and Raising of Calues which breefly is this Those Calues you meane to breed a month before they fall lett your Cow or Kine bee well fed with good Hay that she or they may be the better able to bee deliuered of them and to yeeld plenty of Milke Vppon their first Caluing suffer them not to haue too much milke for three or foure dayes For in ouer-sucking them-selues they will bee so glutted with the plenty and newnesse of it that nature in them will bee ouercome be subiect to Gillying or Scowring which wil hinder them for a long time VVhen they bee fiue or sixe dayes old let them sucke as much as they can When they come to bee a month old prouide a Cratch for fine Hay and a Trough for cleane Water although you haue no meaning that they shall sustaine them-selues thereby but to prepare and acquaint them in a wanton manner to learne to eate Hay and drinke VVater Dayly they will bee nibling with the Hay and VVater as desirous as some idle persons bee of Tobaco and Ale VVhen they bee eight weekes old take away the Milke of one Teat from your Calfe in milking your Cow before the Calfe bee suffered to sucke the want of which Teate for hunger and thirst will prouoke both your Calfe to eate Hay and drinke VVater Continue him so for foure dayes then take away or milke one other Teate from your Calfe as aforesaid which is halfe the Milke so will you force your Calfe to a greater desire of Hay and VVater After this take away the milk of another Teate within foure daies after and so after that take away all Handling the matter in this manner your Calfe will neuer mourne for want of Milke or losse of Damme but will cheerfully fall to eating of Hay and Drinking of water immediatly Let your Seruants be very carefull to litter them with cleane Straw dayly and keepe them sweete with good Hay and let them neuer want cleare water If you haue good scope of House-roome lett them run and play their fils VVhen you purpose to turne them to grasse keepe them in the House vppon Hay and VVater vntill Mid-may If you turne them out as the most do in Aprill you vndoe them the nights being cold the grounds cold the grasse weake and raw they neuer acquainted with the ayre will mislike with your vnkinde dealing in token whereof the heyre will turne and their bellies loose scowre or gilly that they neuer will be themselues because the Sun hath not wrought sufficiently with heate to comfort the ground that should feed and comfort them VVhen they haue beene some month in your best Meads in Mid-may and after recouered their strength put them into some higher Groundes where there is Grasse water and shadow ynough Lett them rest there vntill Bartholomew then put them ouer into your After-maths before the time of the yeare growes cold and then it wil so puffe them with pride that al the winter following they wil scorn the malice of the hardnesse of the Season if they may haue their fills of Hay and fogg with a Houell or House in the extreamest cold daies to shelter them The first yeare beeing spent euery man knowes how to handle them If you will haue them principall cattell giue them hay ynough the second Winter But what a Calfe am I to teach Countreymen to breed Calues by Art when they good Husbands breed them fast ynough by Nature I therefore bequeath this Doctrine to Gentlemen that can better tell how to breed a Hound then a Calfe and referre what else might be spoken to the discretion of the experienced Thus haue I toucht what I handle with as much breuity as I could ommitting nothing that may giue euidence on the behalfe of those Perticulers which will fall out to bee as true in effect as in apparance when euer they are put to their strictest Triall THerefore now nothing remaines more to be said but to intreat thee friendly Reader to beare with my merry-sorry Stile if therin any where I haue not obserued a precise scholler-like Decorum for Mars his Vniuersity wherein sometime I haue bene matriculated and proceeded to some degrees of command according to my study and time spent therein affoords no rules of speaking in Print yet Soldiers in their Element best speake in Print and can expresse what else lies in the compasse of their spacious conceits like men of Wit Arte and Courage which they that speake altogether by the Booke oft faile to performe But howsoeuer as this Worke now finished is published for thy profit and exprest in such manner as I thought would

yeeld thee most pleasure so thou wilt accept it kindly and thereby giue me cause to be euer studious of thy benefit Principally though lastly I am humbly to intreate you my good Lord of Pembrooke to looke on my plainenesse and winke at my boldnesse the first proceeding from my Nature the last from my Education Yet what is here bluntly expressed was first of all sharply conceiued with much whetting of Witt and no lesse filing of Inuention But what it is it is all Yours as he is that will no longer bee then he remaines Your Lordships euen beyond his vttermost Rowland Vaughan Those that are desirous to see a Mill sawing Timber there shall their desires bee fully satisfied seeing a Mill by a Water-course keepe a dozen Sawes on worke together As also by the like streame of water a dozen Spitts or Broches turned at once Which turning turnes all Turn-spit Iacks out of coūtenance though they be neuer so sawcie and their tongues runne on Wheeles yet this Water-worke workes them out of all fauour with the Cooke that loues to doe much with little labour whom the Iacks distemper which often happens soone makes hott as a Tost because like a Cricket he liues euer about Fyre The Conclusion THus runnes our Water-workes vnto this end That all that worke by them by them may play For if they Mossy-grounds by them amend For paines and pleasures then they 'l freely pay This WORKE consists not like some idle Tracts In shew alone or Speculation No this is practicall faire shewes in Acts To make the poor'st the richest Nation Then chiefly aym'd I not at publick-good I would not thus divulge my priuate skill But bee'ng free-borne my Natur 's like my Blood Which would do good to all and no man ill Then All I hope or of that All the best Will wish me well as for the rest I rest Theirs as they giue me cause Rowland Vaughan FINIS In praise of the Worke and Author TO praise a worke of such a worth as this That shews the way t' inrich both earth man Deserues a witt that rare and excellent is And all to short excell in what it can The Author and his worke do merit fame VVith-out the glory of a Poets name Anthony Dauies a Noahs floud b The Inundation caused by the boiling vp of the sea in Munmouth and Glamorgan shire the yeare 1607. a Fevv Hadlands take pleasure to behold the lands they had b Trenches by which his workes are affected c By equiuocation it may bee taken for Infants as wel as Barnes Barne being the name of Infant in some places of England a Sine Cerere Baccho friget Venus b The Sunne exhaling all radicall moysture from thence by the wounds or chaps which are made by summers heate a The teares of sinners are the wine of Angels b Ars dominabitur astris c Or cleare Mirrour d From the obseruation whereof proceeded the rest of his workes as in this his booke more at large is expressed a In dry Summers the Riuers grovv lowest b When the Bankes are ch●pt they cleeuing fall by mammocks into the Riuer c Gaines take away the thought of Paines Wealth helps Vertue in her operations whose hands were else bound from ouert action b All gauly too dry grounds rebell against nature and mens profit a The Countries good a Preacher Curate for daily seruice b Any way mischanc't in their Bodies So that they cannot work c 2. Sam. 7.2.16 a What is before expressed b Like Mars Iupiter and Saturne a Vines b Geese by reason of their vigilancy kept the Pagan Gods in the Romaine Capitoll Good Grasse out of ill ground a Descended from his Ancestors a Custome is a great Lord of command b In these seueral battels the Vaughans mine Ancestors followed yours a The richest Countrey breeds the idlest therefore the poorest people How the poore of the country dispose of the seasons of the yeare The Beggers good husbandry of my countrey The meanes to amend the Countries misery The first worke is the Mill. The vse of the dyning-roome Officers Trades a Twenty broad loomes imploide for fine cloth b Two thousand imploide in the vnderbusinesse of the Common-wealth c The Golden Valley is the Paradise of al the parts beyond Seuern The commerce of the Company But one of each Trade A famous preacher shall be maintaind Three speciall vertues to withstand the Flesh the world and the Deuill Policy in wordly businesses preuailes more then Piety a A most vnholy-holy kind of Vsury a Swift reading an enemy to like vnderstanding a Chappell built and a Curate maintained Twenty foure Parishes in Webtre Hundred and not one able to maintaine a Preaching Minister Beginning is halfe the whole a Vserers as Iewes by their trade a Counter in the Poultry a Strange Paradox yet true if a mans increase of estate tends to his ease Pacience perforce A good offer of a good heart Bristoll better serued with Sacks then Gascoine wine It is manly to erre beastly to continue in error The priuate is more respected then the publike weale of men priuate Alluding to that in maister Fox his Acts and Monuments A Trinity of Ladies able to worke miracles An assault towards against Chepstow-bridge by Salmons It is most strange and yet most true a Behead them like Traytors c That of Tyron b Time is now most opportune a A gainfull end of painefull reading b Feare of priuate harme makes publike hatred often to arise from long-laid rest The Trench-royall is a Cesterne that serues al offices in a Noblemans house To speake what we know not is to thinke what we should not This I mince thus for ill digesting stomacks A iust excuse What benefit can be raised Flix The first cause that the work was vndertaken For no simple fee. Ignorants praise good endings but doubt or dispraise their beginnings a Holy fraud is the falsest fraud As good no running as running for no good a At what time with what water how long you ought to downe your Grounds a Looke well to the leuelling of the grounds that are to be drowned In the beginning of March cleere your grounds from cold cleare-water The best husbands or husband men How profitable to drowne a little before mowing Signes of well seasoned grounds A fault to drowne some and to leaue some of the same ground vndrowned You must double drown in the summer if there bee cause VVants will not worke in water nor where it soakes The Offiers of the Brauing Trench How to gouerne and lead the Water from your brauing Trench ouer your grounds How to make your Stanks or Damms Water works be most chargeable to the Ignorant Your Trench must be made great or small according to the quantity of ground you are to drown Six-score Acres may be drownd in three houres The Rush will be raised by ouer-much moisture Sharp censures made me fal blountly to my workes The seuerall offices of the sluces what a trench royall is What a counter trench is What a topping and brauing trench is What the winter and summer trench is What double and treble trenches require What the trauersing-trenche is What the euerlasting-trench doth Wherefore the Weares or sluces are planted What is to be done in hard Frosts and great snowe The Golden Valley is but seauen miles in length and one mile broad A liberall offer refused which if takē had benefited the offerer more then the offered The length of the Trench Royall The breadth and depth of the Trench-royall The good seruice of a Boat In Lumbardy grasse growes apparantly twice a day being cut twice a day (a) Yronicé Nota. Twenty yeares practise in these VVorkes Muddy flouds often happen in Summer-time Note the profit of drownings Note this aduice The nevv names of the Meades and Pastures Eye-pleasers are often liers The quality of ground distempered with heate Moles are mischieuous vermin in or about such water-works Drowning more profitable then Mills Drayning of Grounds cousine-Germain to Drowning Liuery Season taken by the Brooke A necessary Inuention for suppling hard Groundes for easinesse of Trenching Countrymens Coniectures ar not alwaies Oraclces A notable sodaine effect of Water on hard ground vneasie to bee Trenched The manner of breeding Calues How to learne them to eat Hay drinke VVater What you must do when you purpose to turne them to Grasse Husbandmen breeds Calues by Nature