.v/A' WAr.rr.R or iiixi.i:y. ,i 



SIR WAi/IKk oi- Ill^^•lJ•:^■. 



1 2()()-i_>S :; [about). 

 A.N oducalcd man, who apjx-ars to havt- st-rNcd llic ollicf ol l)ailirt, or 

 perhaps monk in charoc, at one ol" the manors loiiiiccttHl with Cantcrhury 

 Cathedral. His Irratist- gives a fairly comj)K-lc picture of the systi'm of 

 estate management at this early age. For all we know, he ma\ ha\ i- had 

 a hand in the compilation of the second and third of the treatises I 

 ha\ f mentioned, as their authorship up to the present is by no means 

 settled. James Bellot* in his " Booke of 'Hirift " reproduces Walter of 

 Henley's " Husbandry " and states : " 'I'his husbandrie made a Knight, 

 Sir Walter of Henley who after rendered himself into the order of the 

 Friers-preachers, and did teach unto the people how they ought to live 

 wisely and honestly of their goods and not to waste too much before 

 hand, lest they should want after." I reproduce two pages from this 

 interesting little brochure. (See page y.) This treatise has also been 

 reproduced by the Royal Historical Society, as stated on page 9. 



-^-CDOCX:- 



ROBERT TxROSSETHSTE. 



1175-1253- 

 So variously has this name been spelt that it is 1)\- no means certain 

 which is correct. He was Bishop of Lincoln, and his set of Rules upon 

 Estate Management are believed to have been jirepared for a Dowager 

 Countess of Lincoln for use on her estates. He studied at the fniversity 

 in Paris, and his treatise was copied and used for tjuite a couple ol 

 centuries after his death. He was a \oluminous writer upon a \ariety 

 of subjects, and copies of his MS. are found in the British, Bodleian, and 

 Sloane Museums, and his Rules ha\c been reproduced in modern 

 English in the same work by l^lizabelh l.amond mentioned on page 9. 



The old catalogue of the I'etcrborough Library ascribes to the Bisho]) 

 " Liber qui vocatur Housbondrie," or " A Treatise of Husbandry, \\lii( h 

 Mayster Groshede, some time P)ishop of Lincoln, made and translated 

 out of French into English." It has been supposed that the bishop only 

 translated it from French ; and, otherwise, that he lirst wrote it in French 

 and then rendered it into l!nglish. Copies are also extant translated into 

 Latin. Among Bishoj) Moore's works, in the public library at Cambridgi-, 

 is a 4to " P)oke of Husbandry.'' I'nder this title, on a scroll, is the cut ol 



» " 'Ihc liooke of 'Ihritt, containing a perfilc order and right mctliode to protite 

 lands. Englished and set out by J. B. Gentleman of Caen in F-'rance." I rui.lmi. 

 printed bv John \\'(^lfe, I5S(). 



