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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

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

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

in one and raise it to the greatest profit in foure so hard a thing is it for any mortall man to perfitt any profitable inuention without paines cost and continuance of time They say now if Maister Vaughan had these these grounds he would doe This and This. This opinion haue I gotten in the countrey where I dwell There is a Shropshire Gentleman Maister Hoord a famous man his labours I know haue taken tryall at Enuies Barre by ignorant Iurors and vniust Iudges for a worke hee performed It was chargeable vnto him the situation thereof was such as it could not be otherwise handled I saw it viewed it and examined it and I know it doth much more then counteruaile the charge But had I beene acquainted with him in his first beginning he should not haue spent his time to so small profit not that he mistooke in the handling therof but knowing my owne errors and by costly experience able to instruct him I found no want of Arte in him but the want of Winter and Summer-water to serue his turne I would haue perswaded him to haue forborn that barren vnder-taking to haue gotten fiue or sixe thousand pound with ten times lesse labour in the choise of a thousand places elsewhere where hee might haue drowned dayly for euer Muddy-flouds doe often happen in Summer-time If the running of them idle bee so vnto other men as it is vnto mee let them doe as I doe euer haue one pasture bare eaten and as you keepe one speciall Chamber in your house to entertaine a stranger so you alwayes haue one Pasture for that muddy-floud which will pay you after twise twenty in the hundred It 's confessed by all in the Golden-Vale that that little land which wee haue would be bettred fifteene hundred pounds a yeare If the like were done through-out England it would profit the kingdome in a yeare two Millions which would maintaine an army-royall to the honour of Great Brittaine and be most comfortable to all honourable Souldiers Crest-falne for want of warre and military imployment It pleased maister Hoord to view the place where my Water-workes were performed accompanied with three iuditious and vnderstaning Gentlemen namely Maister Brainton Maister Pearle and Maister Wolridge what their beleefe was I referre it to those who haue a desire to be informed Any Gentleman or other hauing performed a worke and brought it to his absolute perfection should not sit downe by it but hauing finished that Worke and being Maister but of one Liuing I would as I formerly said aduise him to sell it and at the end of foure yeares make good account by purchase to gaine sixe if not ten for one I haue a Meade called nine dayes-math an exellent Meade and approued for such of all my neighbours I sold the herbage thereof diuerse yeares for fiue pound per Annum but within few yeares after the flouds plaid vpon it I solde the Hey for ten pound yearely and the latter or after-math was richly worth fiue I will graze this Meade vntill May yet notwithstanding the Hey will yeeld me ten pound and the after-math fiue Now hauing I hope profited the intelligent Reader thus far al the fauour I desire at his hands in lue therof is this That I may haue leaue to giue new names vnto mine old grounds without beeing laught at in ordinaries by scarce ordinary vnderstanders Some they must haue for those they had by drowning are couered with new earth And with-all they bee inlarged aboue two hundred Acres I cannot call that the nine-daies-math which now is aboue 30. vnlesse I should forget my counting-craft nor that a Moore which is firme and pleasing ground nor that the rushy-leasow which is reduc'd now vnto a more fruitfull and profitable plot if the rush appeare there againe he forfeits the Fee-simple of his life so hauing my grounds deuided into 12. parts their names vnder fauour be altered and now called in this manner the Pinck the Gille-flower the Carnation the Rosemary the Mary-gold the gilt-cup the Honysuckle the Daysy the Garland the Eglentine the Cowslip the Primrose Some do say their Kine doe yeeld more milke hauing often change then those that graze in only one pasture I say nothing to it but beleeue those dairy women that affirme it This I can say for any that desire often change as the most part would haue fresh and fresh pasture if they being curious will not bee coy to handle a Cow-shore in his kinde then thus When the Kine bee put ouer to some other ground you know their staine or dung by heate of the sunne will grow hard and within short time will force a proud and insolent grasse such as the Kine in their returne will not touch When you turne out your Kine into fresh feeding bee sure to disperce and seuer those Cow-shares that the place be not stained with any polution They being dispersed drowne your ground with cleare water or mudd if a floud happen the ground being bare two Blessings incounter each other and purifie the place where the Cow-shores were falne so at the next turning in of your Kine some fortnight after they shall finde nothing to distemper or offend the taste the water doth cleanse and cleare all annoyance to the beast and breeds perfect life in euery growing grasse This last Summer 1604. in Trinity terme being aboue at London I came not downe till after Mid-Summer hauing grazed my mowing Meades too too long after May. Vpon my returne I enquired in what state my grounds stood my seruants answered they were sufficientlye seasoned but in deed they did as many seruants doe report the best of the worst to excuse their negligence the Meades were not so sufficiently drownd as the necessitie thereof required They being neglected before mowing not trying their temper with a riding-rod my beliefe was so great in those greater Liers but after mowing the truth appeared the quantity of Meade in one place being three score and ten Acres by reason of the mowing making and cariage before the ground were free to drowne the extremitie of the heate was so great that the grasse turned yellow being tainted as a sheepe on a drye rotte or as a man inlye sick and newly recouered faules into a relaps againe In this manner my grounds had gotten the greene-sicknesse or a buruing-feauer I know not well whether If in the extreame heate you would drowne with Iudgement you should not drowne in the heate of the day but in the night from sunne to sunne But being forc'd I suffered the water to worke night and day the season of the yeare falling out to bee dry the sunne extreamly hotte the ground hott dry and hard so what betweene the heate of the sunne and heate of the ground the water became luke-warme and faild to effect that good which by Nature other-wise it would haue done And if I be not deceiued the infection of the earth had