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AGRICULTURAL WRITERS. 



held a farm of ;^3 or ^4 by the yeare. and hereupon he tilled so much as 

 kept half a dozen men. He had a walk for 100 sheep, and his wife 

 milked thirty kine. He married his daughters with £^ apiece, kept 

 hospitality with his neighbours, and gave alms to the poore, and all this 

 he did out of the same farm." 



Cattle were so scarce that it was enacted that no one should eat liesh 

 on Wednesdays and Fridays without a special licence, and great pains 

 were taken in the Act to show that it was a political and not a religious 



A pcrfite plat forme 



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Rt'jnoldc Scot's 

 See page 34. 



■ Hoppc Garden! 



measure. There was complaint ol the vast number of parks in the 

 kingdom, "there being not less than 100 in Essex alone " where nothing 

 but savage and wild beasts were cherished for pleasure and delight, so 

 that " if the worlde last a while at this rate," " wheate and rie would be 

 no graine for poore men to feed on." Great steps were taken to 

 improve the breed of the draught horse in England, and it was made 

 felony to export horses to Scotland. 



This reference to the horse induces me to hark back a little. 

 Although isolated specimens of this useful beast had been imported into 



