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ther chufe to ftay where they are, than pafs through it : which is 

 all concerning the inner Profpecl of the Rock ; what remains being 

 only a reprefentation of the Arch of ftone w w built over it, with 

 two Niches xy one of each fide 5 and the grate s^at the top, through 

 which they look down out of the Banqueting-rcom into the Grot. 

 Of which no n'ore, but that behind the Rock there is a Cellar Tor 

 keeping Liquors cool, or placing Mufick., tofurprife the Auditors ; 

 and behind that the Receivers of water to fupply the Pipes, (yc 



56. To thefe fucceed the Arts relating to Earths, which either 

 refpeft the Tillage, or Formation of them. How many forts of 

 Soils I met with in Oxfordfbire, viz^ Clay, Chalk, and others from 

 their different mixtures called Maum,Red-land,S our aground, Stone- 

 hrafi,S tony, Sandy, and Gravelly,were enumerated amongft Earths, 

 Chap. 3. It remains that we here give a particular account, by 

 what Arts they are tilled to the beft advantage. And firft of 

 Clay, 



57. Which if kind for Wheat, as mod of it is, hath its firft 

 tillage about the beginning of May ; or as foonas Barly Seafon 

 is over, and is called the Fallow, which they fomtimes make by 

 a cajiing tilth, i. e. beginning at the out fides of the Lands, and 

 laying the Earths from the ridge at the top. After this, fome fhort 

 time before the fecond tilth, which they caMJiirring, which is 

 ufually performed about the latter end of June, or beginning of 

 July, they give this Land its manure ; which if Horfe-dung or 

 Sheep- dung, or any other from the Home-Jlall, or from the Mixen 

 in the Field, is brought and fpread on the Land juft before this 

 /koH^ploughing : But if it be folded (which is an excellent ma-* 

 nure for this Land, and feldom fails fending a Crop accordingly 

 if the Land be'in tillage} they doit either in Winter before the 

 fallow, or in Summer after it is fallowed. And thefe are the manures 

 of Clay Land in the greateft part of Oxford-flire, only in and 

 near the Chiltern ; where befide thefe, it is much enriched by a 

 foft mellow Chalk that they dig from underneath it : when it is 

 {lined it lies again till the time of fo wing Wheat, except in a moift 

 dripping year, when runing to thiftles and other weeds, they fom- 

 times give it afecondftirring, before the lafi for fowing. 



58. All which tillages they are very careful to give it as dry as 

 may be, ridging it up twice or thrice for every cajiing tilth (/. e. in 

 the'xr ftirring, and for fowing , beginning at the top of the Land 



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