64 AGRICULTURAL WRITERS. 



The fourth Booke 

 Shevveth the manner of the casting up of the quantities of acres of all sorts of grounds 

 by the scale and compasse, with tales of computation, for ease in accompting. 



The flft Booke 

 Sheweth the different natures of grounds, and whereunto they may be best im- 

 ployed, how thev may be bettered, reformed, and amended, fit for all farmers and 

 husbandmen. 



The Sixt Booke 

 Containeth a briefe conference between a Purchaser of Land and a Surveyor ; 

 wherein are some points necessary to be considered of such as are able and willing to 

 Purchase Land in Fee-simple or bv Lease. 



He describes the meaning of the word manor and the history of 

 manors, cottages, and villas, yeomen and vicars, meadows, rivers, and 

 bournes, ironworks in Sussex, and many other points referring to both 

 the holding of lands and the crops thereon. 



He names as the best meadows in England those 



LTpon Dovebank in Tan Deane, upon Seaverne side, Allermore, the Lord's Meddow, 

 in Crediton, and the meddows about the Welchpoole, and especially a meddow not 

 farre from Salisburie neere a Bourne under the plaine, that bears grasse yearly aboue 

 ten foot long ; though many thinke it incredible, yet it is apparent that the grass is 

 commonly sixteene foot long. It is made shorter before the cattle can feede on it, 

 and when the cattle have fed their fill hogs are made fat with the remnant, namely 

 with the knots and sappe of the grasse. 



He speaks of a river near Chichester, in Sussex, called the Lauent 

 (now known as the Lavant), which in the winter is dry, and in the 

 dryest summer full to her banks ; so is the Leam, a river in Barkshire, 

 near Leambourne, and he says: 



I take it to be because they are only fed with springs, which run only when they 

 are at the highest, namely in the summer, when the sun is highest. And that also is 

 the reason wh\- many bournes breake out of the earth in sundry places, as we may 

 read it hath done sometimes neere Mergate, in Hartfordshire, corruptly called 

 Market, and neere Croydon, in Surrey, near Angleton and Patcham, in Sussex, and 

 in many other places in this Realme : which breake forth suddenly out of the driest hill 

 in summer, and run for a time in such abundance as would drive many mils. Not 

 yearely, but in six, eight, or ten yeares. 



On page 208 he recommends 



Seed of the claver grasse or the grasse honeysuckle, and other seedes that fall out 

 of the finest and purest haj' ; and in the sowing of it, mingle with it some good earth. 

 But sow not the honeysuckle grasse in too moist a ground, for it liketh it not, there- 

 fore you must draine the place before you sow it. 



(This clover must be what is now known as cowgrass.) 

 He recommends hops from Essex and Surrey, and describes 

 carrots as 



A beneficial fruit as grown at Orford, Ipswich, and many sea townes in Suffolke, as 

 also inland townes, Berrie, Framingham, and others in some measure in the same 

 shire, Norwich, and many places in Norfolke, Colchester, in Essex, Fulham and other 



