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TUSSER (THOMAS). 



A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie. 1557. 



Subsequently amplified into 



Fine hundreth good Pointes of Husbandry, united to as many of good 

 Huswifery. 1573. 



BLT7NDEVILLE (THOMAS). 



1. A newe booke containing the arte of try ding and breakynge greate horses, etc. 

 [Translated from the Italian of F. Grisone.] 1560. 



2. The fower chief yst offices belonging to Horsemanshippe. That is to saye, 

 the office of the Breeder, of the Rider, of the Keper, and of the Ferrer, etc. 



1565 and 1566. 



[Parts i. and ii. are undated : Parts iii. and iv. are dated 1565 and 

 1566 respectively Part ii. consists of a revised edition of the translation 

 of Grisone's Arte of By ding.} 



HILL (THOMAS). 



The proffitable Arte of Gardeninge, etc. . . . To this annexed two proper 

 treatises, the one entitled The merucilous gouernmente . . . of the Bees 

 . . . And the other, the yearly cojectures meete for husbandmen to knowe. 

 Englished by Thomas Hyll. ' 1568. 



[In the edition of 1572 appears the following addition : Wherunto is 

 newly added a treatise of the Arte of Oraffing and planting of Trees.} 



HERESBACH (CONRAD). 



Rei Rusticae libri quatuor. Cologne, 1570. 



MASCALL (LEONARD). 



1. A Book of the Art and Manner how to graff and plant all sortes of Trees 

 etc. 1572. 

 [The book is mainly a translation from the French, with certain Dutch 



practices added, and is described as being " set forth and Englished " 

 by L(eonard) M(ascall). It was published in the latter half of the seven- 

 teenth century under the title of The Country-Mans new Art of Planting 

 and Oraffing, etc. 1652.] 



2. The Husbandlye Ordring and Governmente of Poultrie Practised by the 

 Learnedste, and such as have bene knowne skilfullest in that Arte and in 

 our tyme. 1581. 



3. The first Booke of Cattett : Wherein is shewed the gouernment of Oxen, 

 Kine, Calues, etc. : The Second booke entreating of Horses, etc. : the Third 

 booke entreating of the ordering of Sheepe and Goates, Hogges and Dogges, 



' etc. 1591. 



[The edition of 1596 seems to have been the third edition of this work. 

 The book was often republished under the title of The Government of 

 Cattell. In the latter half of the seventeenth century, it was edited and 

 " enlarged " by Richard Ruscam, Gent., and published (1680) under the 

 title of The Countreyman's Jewel.} 



SCOT (REYNOLDE). 



A Perfite platforme of a Hoppe Garden, and necessarie Instructions for the 

 making and mayntenaunce thereof, etc. 1574. 



MALBIE (NICHOLAS). 



A plaine and easie way to remedie a horse that is foundered in his feate, 

 etc. 1576. 



GOOGE (BARNABE). 



Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, collected by M. Conradus Hercsbachius. . . . 

 Newely Englished and increased by B(arnabe) G(ooge), Esquire, 1577. 



