88 AGRICULTURAL WRITERS. 



tragedies, comedies, and other heroic poems, many of which are nov\ 

 rare, and command large sums of money when offered for sale. In 1599 

 he issued a book on our subject, entitled " How to Chuse, Ride, Traine, 

 and Diet both Hunting Horses and Running Horses." It is dedicated to 

 "his singular good father, Ma: Robert Markham, of Cotham, in the 

 countie of Nottingham, Esquire." In it he states he has here "gathered 

 together of my life's experience," and that " no man's aplaus can better 

 please me," for his father was as fond of horses as himself, and it so fell 

 out that Cotham, his chief manor, became the property of the Duke of 

 Newxastle, and still belongs to his Grace's family. 



Most of his earlier books on agriculture and subjects pertaining 

 thereto appear to have consisted of bringing up to date the works of 

 earlier writers. "The Gentleman's Academic; or, the Booke of St. 

 Albans on Hawking, Hunting, and Armorie," compiled by Juliana Berners 

 in i486, now reduced to a better method by G. M., he dedicated to the 

 gentlemen of England, and all the good fellowship of huntsmen and 

 falconers. 



In 1607 was first issued 



Cavelarice ; or, The English Horseman, contayning all the Arte of Horsemanship, 

 as much as is necessary for any man to understand, whether he be Horse-breeder, horse- 

 ryder, horse-hunter, horse-runner, horse-ambler, horse-farrier, horse-keeper, Coachman, 

 Smith, or Sadler; together with Discouery of the subtill trade or mistery of horse- 

 coursers, and an explanation of the excellency of a horses understanding, or how to 

 teach them to doe trickes like Bankes his Curtail ; and that horses may be made to 

 drawe drie-foot like a Hound. Secrets before vnpublished and now carefully set down 

 for the profit of this whole Nation, by Geruase Markham. London: Printed for 

 Edward White, and are to be solde at his shop near the little nortli doore of Saint 

 Paules Church at the signe of the Gun. 



In 160S appeared 



The Husbandman's Faithfall Orchard, shewmg divers rare new secretes for the 

 true ordering of all sortes of fruite in their due seasons. 



The Whole Art of Husbandry, contained in Fovre Bookes, viz. : I. Of the 

 Farme or Mansion House, Offices and Accommodations of Earable Ground, Pasture 

 and Medowe. H. Of Gardens, Orchards and Woods. III. Of Breeding, Feeding, 

 and Curing of all manner of Cattell. II II. Of Poultrie, Fowle, Fishe, and Bees, with 

 tlie whole .\rt (according to these last times) of Breeding and Dyeting the Fighting 

 Cock, and the Art of Angling, first written by Conrade Heresbatch, a learned 

 Nobleman, then translated b}- Barnaby Googe, PLsquire, and now Renewed, Corrected, 

 and Enlarged, and adorned with all the Experiments and practises of our English 

 Nation, which were wanting in the Former Editions. Bv Captain Gervase Markham. 

 1614. London : Printed by T. C. for Richard More, and are to be sold at his shop in 

 S. Danstanes Churcli yard in F"leet-street. 



" Cheape and Good Husbandry" (see page 91). First issued in 

 1614. This book ran through over a dozen editions during the century'. 

 My copy is dedicated to the Right Honourable and most truely ennobled 



