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APPENDIX III. 



AGRICULTURAL WRITERS OF THE 16th, 17th, AND FIRST 

 HALF OF THE 18th CENTURIES. 



The principal agricultural writers of England and "Wales 

 from 1500 to 1740 are given in the following list ; but the 

 list does not pretend to be exhaustive, nor are the editions to 

 which the dates are affixed in all cases the first. 



1523. Fitzherbert (Sir Anthony) One of the Justices of the 

 Court of Common Pleas. 



1. Boke of Surveyeng. 1523, 4to. 



2. Boke of Husbandry. 1525, 4to. 

 1537. De Benese (Sir Richard) 



This Boke sheweth the maner of measurynge of all 

 maner of land. Southwarke, 1537. 



1573. Tusser (Thomas) 



Five hundredth points of good husbandry. Lon- 

 don, 1573, 4to. 



1574. Scot (Reginald) 



A perfite platforme of a Hoppe Garden and neces- 

 sarie instructions for the making and maynten- 

 aunce thereof. London, 1574, 4to. 

 [This is the first treatise upon hops.] 

 1594. Plat, or Piatt (Sir Hugh) 



The Jewell House of Art and Nature. London, 

 1594, 8vo. 

 1605. Mascall (Leonard) 



The Government of Cattell. 



Part I. The Government of oxen. 

 Part II. The Govei^nment of horses. 

 Part III. The ordering of sheep. 



London, 1605, 4to. 



