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had understood that point [in regard to the condition 

 of land and proper seed], when I went out of England, 

 after thirty years^ experience in Husbandries and 

 having improved my land as much as any man in this 

 kingdom';'^ but his foreign experience taught him to 

 improve " heathie and sandie lands/^ 



This pamphlet is neatly and closely printed ; with 

 an obvious error of 1605 for 1650 on the title page. 

 The Dedication occupies 3 leaves,, and the Discourse 26 

 pages. Two years later he published — 



Discourse of Husbandrie used in Brabant and Flan- 

 ders ; shewing the wonderful improvement of 

 Land there; and serving as a pattern for our 

 practice in this Common-wealth. The second 

 edition, corrected and Inlarged. — London, Printed 

 by Wilham Du-Gard, dwelling in Suffolk-lane, 

 near London-stone, small 4to. Anno Dom. 1652. 



'' The Epistle Dedicatorie,'' by Samuel Hartlib, " To 

 the Eight Honorable the Council of State,^^ occupying 

 3 leaves, is followed by his address to the reader. In 

 the latter he remarks — ^^This second edition of the 

 Brabant Husbandrie is not so much enlarged as was 

 intended by mee, becaus I expected something from 

 Sir Richard Weston, which I have not been able to 

 obtain.'^ 



At the end, after ^^Finis/^ are two letters from 

 Samuel Hartlib to Sir Richard Weston; the first dated 



