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will be of infinite usefulness V^ And again : " If tlie 

 least part of all Industrie is higHy improved by CoUe- 

 giall Institution and Education^ bow mucb more may 

 the cbief part^ and as it were tbe very root of all wealtb^ 

 be advanced to perfection by tbeir means ?" This essay, 

 therefore, is offered as " a bint of tbis matter, tbat it 

 may be furtber in due time ripened, and witb more 

 mature considerations brought to perfection.^^ 



Tbe Essay, after prebminary explanations, suggests : 

 "tbat well-wisbers to tbeir countrey's wealth and 

 propriety ; be pleased to contribute such sums to tbis 

 good and laudable Worke, as in their own wisdomes 

 and bounties appear necessary, and deliver tbe same 

 into tbe bands of Mr. Samuel Hartlib, whose abundant 

 zeale for tbe publique good, renders him most worthy to 

 be entrusted therewith, till there shall be a competent 

 stock obtained/' 



The Essay closes at page 11, and proceeds with a 

 letter on the same subject, ending at page 16, without 

 signature but substituting ' as a kind of mark. 



The address to the reader occupies 2 leaves, and 

 tbe Essay, &c. 17 pages, closely printed. 



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Tbe Eeformed Husband-Man ; or a brief Treatise of the 

 Errors, Defects, and Inconveniences of our English 

 Husbandry, in ploughing and sowing for corn ; 

 with the Reasons and general Remedies; and a 



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