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majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36288	Husbandry anatomized, or, An enquiry into the present manner of teiling and manuring the ground in Scotland for most part and several rules and measures laid down for the better improvement thereof, in so much that one third part more increase may be had, and yet more than a third part of the expence of the present way of labouring thereof saved / by Ja. Donaldson.	Donaldson, James, fl. 1697-1713.	1697 (1697)	Wing D1853; ESTC R10333	43,543	168

HUSBANDRY Anatomized OR An Enquiry into the Present Manner of Teiling and Manuring the Ground in SCOTLAND For most Part AND Several RULES and MEASURES laid down for the better Improvement thereof in so much that one third part more INCREASE may be had and yet more than a third part of the EXPENCE of the present Way of LABOURING thereof Saved By JA DONALDSON EDINBURGH Printed by IOHN REID in the Year M. DC.XC.VII To the Right Honourable PATRICK Earl of MARCHMONT Viscount of BLASONBERIE Lord POLW ARTH Lord High Chancellour of SCOTLAND And the whole Remnant Lords of His Majesties Most Honourable Priy COUNCIL Right HONOURABLE IT may be looked upon as a Peice of heightened Arrogance for such a Person as I am to Presume to Endit any thing that may deserve your Lordships Cognizance And truly on any other Subject but this most Plain and Genuine Art of Husbandrie I had scarce adventured to publish my Sentiments and much less presumed to offer the same to such August Venerable and Judicious Criticks Who are acquainted with Learned and Eloquent Treatises on all Subjects But where there is greatest Judgement there useth to be most Discretion Which gives me Confidence and Ground to hope that what I here offer with Respect and Good Will allanarly with an Eye to the publick Good shall find Acceptance Thô from the Stile of Writing or Congruity of Language no such thing can be pleaded for Rhetorick being that which neither the Subject doth require nor my simple Genius can Aspire to Perhaps two Questions may be asked Concerning my Experience in Husbandry and Motives in publishing thereof To give a positive and distinct Answer to both will require an abridged History of my own Life which I shall with all Brevity repeat because it will be a kind Kye to the following Sheets I was bred in the Country Till I was upwards of twenty years of Age And my Father keeping Servants and Cattle for labouring a part of these Lands which heritably belonged to him I had occasion to acquire as much Knowledge in Husband Affairs as was practised in that place of the Country Some few years before the Revolution I applyed my self to the study of Traffick and Merchandizing But as soon as it pleased GOD to call his Majestie then Prince of Orange to relieve these Kingdoms from the Imminent Danger They then stood in I judged it my Honour and Duty to concur with such a Laudible and Glorious Undertaking And according to my Ability testified my Affection to the Cause several wayes needless here to repeat And especially in Leavying a Company of Men for his Majesties Service and served in the Earl of Angus his Regiment till the second day of February 1690. When that Regiment was reduced from twenty to thirteen Companies I was disbanded But through the scarcity of Money in the Exchequer and great need of keeping an Army on foot Hitherto I have received no Reimbursement of Money I Depursed on that Occasion nor what I can claim of Arriers But the chief Cause of my being reduced to the present hard Condition I am in was The leaving my Business in Confusion when I engadged in His Majesties Service not getting Goods in my Custodie disposed off to Advantage nor Debts due to me sought in And on the other hand my Creditors sued for what was owing them I was obliged to satisfie and pay several other Summs I was Caution for to my great loss By all which and several other misfortunat Accidents my Credit was much broken and Estate near exhausted Notwithstanding of all which I wrasled under all these Disadvantages still thinking to have recovered till within this two or three years At length I was obliged to succumb my Creditors attacking all my Effects I was necessitat to leave the Kingdom for a time and now returning empty handed I began to Reason thus with my self What Have I learned nothing from all that I have seen or heard whereby I can be Useful to my self or the Common-Wealth And at length came to this Resolve I have had some Experience of the Way and Manner of Labuoring the Ground in this Countrey And I have seen their Way of mannaging thereof in some other Places which is generally done to greater Advantage And when I began to try what might be the Causes why there is such difference of Increase in one place more than another I found it is not altogether from the difference of the Climate nor Primitive Constitution of the Earth And as soon as I thought of publishing this I thought it my Duty with all Humility to present it to your Lordships in respect you are not only Proprietors of a great part of Lands in this Kingdom but also in Authority and Dignity to recommend this Project both by Example and Precept And if it may seem practicable in your Lordships Eyes and any Benefit to the Publick come thereby I shall reckon it a special Mercy of GOD who by his Overruling Providence oft times worketh by contrary like Means that I am reduced to this penurious Condition For if it had pleased GOD to continue me in prosperity I beleive this Project had never entred my thoughts I am not so self conceited as to apprehend there is any great Mistery in what I have here published for it is a thing many have not only known but practised But never any that I yet saw hath published it in thir Terms for as I noted in page 125 the grand mistake lyeth in Mis-calculation And I foresaw if I had used the common Method of writing on this Subject it had been objected the Profit would not overballance the Expence For which Cause I have chused to go thorow every Particular and shew how and from whence the profit doth arise I know Epistols Dedicatory are usually stuffed with the Praises of those to whom they are directed But the like Practise were here supperfluous tho I were capable of such a Task as the Poet who was desired to write in praise of Alexander answered Who hath dispraised Alexander So I think my dull Pen attempting to applaud Unquestioned Vertue were not only Vain but Injurious Wherefore I judge it my best Eloquence to be altogether silent and let your Enemies judge whither Real Vertue doth not dwell in the Breasts of these whom Divine Providence hath exalted to such Dignity And the most Serene August and Judicious Monarch this Day in the World maketh choise of for His Counsellours But to avoid Prolixity and encroaching upon your Lordship's Patience I shall conclude Now that all Honour Prosperity and Endless Felicity may alwayes attend You is the Earnest Wish and Unfeigned Prayer of Your LORDSHIPS most Humble and Obedient Servant Ja Donaldson ERRATA Page 8 Line 8 for Vigitables read Vegetables and several other Places Page 25 Line 12 for only and read only add Page 107 Line 1 for 5 read 4 ibid Line 3 for 200 read 1600. 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