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cesspool. ‘Paid to John Lavghton in haruest for ferghinge the 
milne becke.’—Kirton in Lindsey Ch. Acc. 1582. George Todd’s ~ 
feyin’ out the sink hole.”—Peacock’s Glossary, E. Dial. Soc. 1877. 
To fey a ditch or pond is to empty and clean it; and the mud 
taken from such places, if mixed with lime or chalk, forms an ex- 
cellent compost for pasture grounds.—M. Cf. Icel. /@gya, to 
cleanse, whence our word is derived. 
53. 19. ‘Of late yeares also we haue found and taken vp a great 
trade in planting of hops, whereof our moorie hitherto and vnprofit- 
able grounds doo yeeld such plentie and increase that there are few 
farmers or occupiers in the countrie, which haue not gardens and 
hops growing of their owne, and those farre better than doo come 
from Flanders vnto vs. Certes the corruptions vsed by the Flemings, 
and forgerie dailie practised in this kind of ware, gaue vs occasion 
to plant them here at home; so that now we may spare and send 
manie ouer vnto them. And this I know by experience that some 
one man by conuersion of his moorie grounds into hopyards, 
wherof before he had no commoditie, dooth raise yearelie by so 
little as twelue acres in compasse two hundred markes ; all charges 
borne toward the maintenance of his familie. Which industrie 
God continue! Though some secret freends of Flemings let not 
to exclaime against this commoditie, as a spoile of wood, by reason 
of the poles, which neuerthelesse after three yeares doo also come 
to the fire, and spare their other fewell.”—Harrison, Descript. of 
Eng., 1587, p.110. ‘‘ Lowe and spungie grounds trenched is good 
for hopps, as Suffolke, Essex, and Surrie, and other places doe find 
to their profit.’—Norden, p. 206. Evelyn, Sylva, pp. 201, 469, ed. 
Hunter, asserts that there was a petition against them temp. Henry 
VI., but no record of it appears on the rolls of Parliament. Brewing 
with hops was not introduced here till the reign of King Henry VIII. 
(Stow, Hist. p. 1038.) ere, however, is mentioned in 1504. (Leland, 
Coll. vi. p. 30, and see Dr. Percy on Northumberland Book, p. 414.) 
—Pegge’s Forme of Cury, ed. 1780, p. xxiii. See a long note in 
Prompt. Parv., s.v. Hoppe; and also ‘‘ Pharmacographia,” p. 496. 
54. 11. For wanting at will=for fear of having none when you 
really want it. 
55. 2. Hay for neat cattle may be made with less labour, and 
more expeditiously than for horses; because, if it is a little mow 
burnt, it will not be the less acceptable to them; and besides, the 
fermentation it undergoes, if not carried too far, has a natural 
tendency to mellow coarse grass.—M. 
55. 4. Avise auouse is French jargon for fake precautions. Ill- 
made hay is apt to take fire; if much wetted with rain, to become 
mouldy. Hard and fine hay is best for horses; soft and coarse 
hay will be more acceptable to cattle; while short hay is coveted 
by sheep.—M. 
55. 6. Thry fallowing, or the third plowing, should be performed 
ny ine 
