SAMUEL HARTLIB'S PUBLICATIONS. 69 



XVII. 



Samuel Hartlib Ms Legacie : or An Enlargement of the 

 Discourse of Husbandry used in Brabant and 

 riaunders ; Wherein are bequeathed to the Com- 

 mon-wealth of England more Outlandish and 

 Domestick Experiments and Secrets in reference 

 to Universall Husbandry. Entered according to 

 the late Act concerning Printing. — London, Printed 

 by H. Hills_, for Eichard Wodenothe at the Star 

 under St. Peter's Church in Cornhill. 4to. pp.131. 

 •1651. 



A specimen of superior printing. The first three 

 leaves without paging contain Hartlib's address, and Sir 

 Richard Weston's Legacy to his sons. 



From page 1 to 108 is '^ A large letter, &c. to Mr. 

 Samuel Hartlib/' and by the double line, mark, or 

 monogram at the end it would appear to be from the pen 

 of Cressy Dymock; there are also five other letters 

 with the same mark, ending at page 127. The first 

 letter is simply dated Anno 1651, but we learn from 

 the commencing paragraph that the correspondent had 

 not long returned from France. A different authorship 

 may be due to the first and largest communication, 

 which may have been written by Robert Child, as sug- 

 gested by Harte in his Essays on Husbandry, and by 

 Sir Egerton Brydges in the Gentleman's Mag. Vol. 72, 

 p. 12. The work consists of one general answer to the 



