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men ones in a daye to wete yf they do theyr werke 

 truly as they ought to do, and yf ye fynde theym 

 contrary he shall chastyse theym reasonable there- 

 fore, and by dyscrecyon, &c. 



" The iiii chapytre. 



" The plough of oxen is better than the plough 

 of hors, but, yf it be upon stony grounde yt whiche 

 greveth sore the cxen in theyr fete. And yt plough 

 of hors is more cosily than ye plough of oxen & 

 yet shal your ])lough of oxen doo as moch werke 

 in a yere as youre plough of hors, though ye dryve 

 your hors faster than ye do your oxen, yet in what 

 grofide so ever it be youre plough of oxen, yf ye 

 tele your londe wel and evenly, they shal do as 

 moche werke one daye with a nother as your 

 plough of hors, yf the groilde be tough your 

 oxen shall werke where youre hors shall stande 

 styll. And yf ye will knowe how moche the one is 

 costlyer than ye other I shal teche you. It is a 

 costume yt bestes yt go to the plough shall werke 

 from ye feste of Saynt Luke unto the feste of Saynt 

 Elene in Maye, that is to saye xxv weekes, and yf 

 youre hors sholde be kepte in a good plyght to 

 werke he must haue dayly the syxt parte of a 

 bushel of otes pryce ob. [obolus, a farthing] and 

 in gresse in somer season xiid. And every weke 

 that he standeth at drye mete one with another ob. 

 in strawe for lytter. And in sho yge as often as 

 he is shodde on all foure fete iiii d. at the lest. The 

 somme of his expenses in the yere is ix s, vi d. ob., 

 besyde hay and chafe and other thynges. And as 

 for the oxe ye may kepe hym in good plyght dayly 

 to doo his journey gyuynge hym euery weke thre 

 oten sheves pryce i d. by ause x oten shcves yelde 

 a bushell of otes yf they be made by the extent and 

 in somer season xii d. in gresse. The somme of his 

 expenses by the yere is iii s. i d. be syde strawe and 

 chafe. And yf a hors be overset and brought 

 downe with labour it is adventure & ever he re- 

 cover it. And yf your oxe be oversette and brought 

 doune with labour ye shall for xii d. in somer sea- 

 son have hym so pastured that he shal be stronge 

 ynough to do your werke or elles he shall be so 

 fatte that he may selle him for as moche raoneye as 

 he coste you. 



" The xiiii chapytre. 



" Ghees and hennes shall be at the delyueraunce 

 of youre baylyf or Iste so ferme a goos for xii d. in 

 a yere. Fyue hennes and a cocke for iii s. in a yere 

 and there be some baylyfs and deyes that say nay 

 to this proufFytes. But 1 shall preuve it by reason, 

 for in halfe a yere be xxvi wekes, and in these xxvi 

 wekes ix score dayesj and in eche of these dayes 

 ye shall have an egge of eche henne & yt is ix score 

 egges of eche henne in that halfe yere, it is a feble 

 sale of egges & xxx egges be not worth a peuy and 

 yf ony of theym syt in that halfe a yere or some 

 daye in defaute of lyenge, ye shall be recompensed 

 there fore, and of vi more to here out the ferme ye 

 cocke, and wt the sale of the chekens yt youre 

 syttynge hennes brynge forthe in that other halfe 

 yere. Nowe shall ye se whether I say sothe or nay 

 the pecocke shall answere as moche the for feders 

 (feathers) as the shepe for his wolle. Every cowe 

 shall answere you a calfe. And every moder shepe 

 eball answere you a lambe. Every female swyne 



shall answere you xiii pygges at thrye farowyges 

 at two tymes at eche tyme iii and the thyrde tyme 

 fyve the x for tythe. Every henne shall answere 

 you of ix soore egges or of chekens to ye value. 

 Every goos shall answer you of vi ghoslynges And 

 yf ony of this catell be bareyne ye balyf shall 

 answere you of the yssue that is loste thrugh his 

 euyll kepynge, by cause that he dyde nut selle 

 theym and pnt the sylver to other prouffytes to the 

 value." 



The last three or four pages are devoted to Gar- 

 dening, and this portion has this commencement : — 



" Here begyneth the plantynge of trees and of 

 vynes." 



It is quite unwortliy of the previous part, being 

 a mere collection of the mis-statements of the 

 Greek and Roman writers relative to altering the 

 colour of fruits and similar indulgences of the 

 imagination. 



It has been doubted whether Bishop Grosseteste 

 wrote all the works of which a list is given in his 

 life by Pegge, as well as in Tanner's Bibliotheca 

 Monastica. It has been truly said that they are 

 equal in number to those produced by any of the 

 great Arabian Philosophers. Indeed, in one de- 

 partment of literature — Poetry, he surpassed them, 

 for we have his " Chastel d'Araour" among the 

 Harleian MSS. But, the works enumerated, and 

 mostly remaining in MS., are generally very brief, 

 and do not exceed, even if they equal, in number 

 of pages, the varied works published by Fitzher- 

 bert, who, also, found time, notwithstanding his 

 profession, to write his " Boke of Husbandry." 



Let us remark, also, that this is not the only 

 work of Grosseteste that was thought worthy of 

 being printed so many years after his decease, for 

 his Treatise de Artibus Liber alibus and his Com- 

 mentary on Aristotle were pubhshed at Venice in 

 1514. 



Bisho]) Robert Greathead, for he was an English- 

 man, and his real name was only foreigned by such 

 translations as " Grosthead" and "Grosseteste," 

 was a man of high attainments, and of a mind 

 enlarged far above the generahty of his contempo- 

 raries. He was a friend of Roger Bacon, and 

 studied as he did the Natural Sciences. He was, 

 says Sharon Turner, " intrepid and patriotic, fore- . 

 most in every useful pursuit of his day, the friend 

 and cultivator of j)oetry, scholastic philosophy, 

 Arabian science, natural philosophy, mathematics, 

 divinity, and canon and civil law. He was also the 

 fearless and successful assertor of the liberties of 

 the Enghsh Church, and a protector of the English 

 clergy against the taxations and tyranny of the 

 Pope."— (TMr?2er's Hist, of Middle Ages.) 



His letter to Pope Innocent in 1253 may be read 

 in the Chronicle of Matthew Paris, and was so dis- 

 pleasing to the Pontiff, that he threatened to hurl 

 upon him confusion and destruction. Greathead 

 went fearlessly on to declare the Pope both a 

 heretic and antichrist; and after death the Bishop 

 was believed to have visited the Pope, and to have 

 threatened and terrified him from his purpose of 

 having the Bishop's bones dng up and thrown 

 out of the church. The diffusion of such an idle 

 tale implies the popularity of Bishop Greathead, 



