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LEONARD MASCIIAL, was a gentlemao residing at 

 Piunistead, in Sussex. 



1. On the Government of Cattle. 4to., with his Portrait, 



1596. 



2. A Book of the Art and manner how to grafF and Plant 



all sortes of Trees, how to set Stones and sow Pepins, to 

 make wild Trees to graffe on, as also remedies and mcde- 

 cines, with other new practices, by one of the Abbey of the 

 St. Vincent, in France, with the addition of certain Dutch 

 practices : set forth and Englished by L. M. London, 

 1572, 4to. and 12mo. 1578, 4to. 1580. Black Letter. 

 1680, 1582, 1590, 1592, 1G52, 1656, all in 4to. 



3. The Countryman's Jewel, in three books, 1G80, 8vo. 



SIR HUGH PLATT or Platte, Knt. is stated by Mr. Weston 

 in his Catalogue of English Authors, to have been " the most 

 ingenious husbandman of the age he lived in." From the same 

 author, and from Sir Hugh's own works we learn, that he spent 

 part of his time at Copt Hall, in Essex, then possessed by Sir 

 Thomas Henneage, near which he had a country seat. In 1594, 

 he lived at Bishop's Hall, in Middlesex, and had an estate 

 near St. Albans. In the title page of his works he is stilcd " of 

 Lincoln's Inn, gentleman," and therefore, although he does not 

 inform us of what profession he was, further than that it was 

 widely differing from cultivating the earth, wc are j ustified in 

 concluding that he was in the law. lie had a very extensivii 

 correspondence with the lovers of Gardening, &C. He proba- 

 bably lived in St. Martins Lane, whore he had a garden. Ho 

 was living in IGOG. The following are his works. 



1. Dyvcrs Soyles for manuring pasture and arable laud, 

 1594, Ito. 



