Aj)(>/.ri/rs Oh' ADAM sr /■:/■:/). 103 



eat a raw turnip any more than a Scot will <^al swine's nesh, yet tlie boilinjf of them 

 first and given to the hogs with a good wash will induce them to eat them raw and 

 ihey will run after the cart and pull them forlli. 



He adds an appendix, 1uiiik)I\- reiiionstralinjj^ 



unto any of the Honourable Committee of Parliament designed, or that hereafter 

 may be designed for takmg of grievances. Promoting the Common good, 

 Advancing of Ingenuity, or for Regulating l-'orests, Wastes or Commons within 

 this Commonwealth. 



Advocating 



Division of the land into leases and divers ways. Many forests, moors and Commons 

 as they are now enjoyed througli the oppression of the Rich, the sloth and idleness of 

 the Poor and the misusage of all. My ej'es have many a time seen one person 

 employed all day in tending one or two beast, whose wages could not be less than 

 three shillings a weeic. Of whose labour the Commonwealth is deprived hereby. 

 Enclosure will bring far more honest ingenious employment in planting, fruit growing, 

 Corning, sogling, Clovering and Coleing and maintain many more people. 



The book contains a folding illustration of an engine-worked mill, to 

 be also used for drawing water ; a page illustration of levelling instru- 

 ments ; of spades of many kinds and ploughs of divers descriptions. 

 (See pages loi and 102). There is no mention in any of his works as 

 to who or what he was, or from whence he came, or when he died. 

 It may be noted that his name is variously spelt by contemporaries 

 who make reference to him, and by one he is described as Sir Walter 

 Blvthe. 



ADOLPHUS OR ADAM SPKED. 



) 600- 1660 {about]. 



Little is known about Speed, whose Christian name is given by all the 

 biographers as Adam, whereas in a copy of the 1648 edition of " General 

 Accommodations," by Addresse, " signed and dated by himself April 26th, 

 1630, at Mr. Fisher's house in King Street, within the Covent Garden," 

 proves it to have been Adolphus. He appears to have associated himself 

 with reputable society ; though no particulars of his parentage or birth 

 are forthcoming. He is asserted to have begun to write in 1626: but 

 Walter Blith, whose books are already described, stated in 1652 '' that 

 till a short time previously. Speed had not published his works." My 

 copy of "Adam out of Kden " is dated 1659, printed for Henry Urome 

 at the Gun in l\y Lane. It is "an abstract of divers excellent Experi- 

 ments touching the advancement of Husbandry " ; and, again, according 



