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wounded in a duel by Sir John Holies.* He served as a Cap- 

 tain in the Royal Army during the Civil Wars. The period of 

 his death is uncertain. He was a very voluminous writer, 

 and appears to have been the first Englishman who, de- 

 pending upon the produce of his Pen for subsistence, became 

 a hackney author. f His works which deserve notice here are 

 contained in the following list, besides which he wrote many 

 on horsemanship, the diseases of cattle, &:c. ' 



1. The English Husbandman. 2 parts, London, 1613, 4to. 



The same enlarged, 1633. 



2. Maison Rustique, or the country Farmer, translated from 

 the French ; and the Husbandrie of France, Italic, and 

 Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here iu 

 England, London 1616, folio. 



3. Farewell to Husbandry ; or the enrichment of all sorts of bar- 

 ren grounds. London. 1620 — 2L — 25 — 31 — 4U. all in 4;o. 



4. Enrichment of the Weold of Kent ; or a direction to the 

 husbandman, for the true ordering, manuring, and enrich- 

 ing of all the grounds within the Weolds of Kent and 

 Sussex ; and may generally serve for all the grounds in 

 England of that nature. London. 1631 — 1649, 1675— 4to. 



5. The Country Housewife's Garden. 1623 — 1648. 4to. 



«. The Way to get Wealth, in six parts. 1648 — Editions in 

 1660, and 64. are said in the Title pages to bf? the tenth 

 and eleventh. 



There are two portraits of him extant. 



• Collins' I Historical collections of the families of Cavenilii>h, IIoIIo^, Ac. 

 + Harta'* Etsnyi on Husbandry, v. ii. p. 32. 



