()LI)-TIMI{ ACiRICULTUkAL WkrrF.RS. 



ThK olcK'sl (loc-umcnls that ha\c hccii hamlcd down arc mostl\- compila- 

 tions originall)- made hy rdiuated moid<s, who had the opportuiiit \ 

 afforded them of sliulyino- abroad the writings of ihr orf^al (ircck ami 

 Roman scholars: Hcsiod, Cato, \'arro, X'irgil, Columella, IMin\-, and 

 lasl of all Palladius,^ who seems in his fourteen hooks to ha\c taken 

 the cream oi the informatic^n from his foreliears. 









'-SVO^ 





etc a-<*ng>- e.^ rors 



Photoi^ralyli of a portion of the anonvmons'v written " II nshandrv," from the ori}(innl MS. in tlu 

 University Lihrary. ('(liiihridi^c. {Hit. III. 11./166. 14M rottury.) 



Thp: FoiK Tui; \l ISI'.S which served such excelliiit purjxjses in 

 England, from the twelfth to the fourteenth centuries, may be de- 

 scribed as follows : — 

 Sir Wai.ikr of HjiNLEv'sf Tkiiai isk on Hish.wdrv. 



A survey of the management of men and animals. 

 ('See pages h and i i . j 



Anon Hishandrn . 



Com trued with the estate accounts, (See illustration abo\-e.) 



* A Roman writer aluiut a.d. 400. 



+ The Latin word " Doininu^," translated as Sir or Syr. wri oli-Ti ii-<-.| m ,11 Iv 

 davs prefix<-Hl to tlie r.amc f)f monks .ind friars. 



