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Ireland^s Naturall History. Being a true and ample 

 description of its situation, greatness, shape, and 

 nature. Written by Gerard Boate. And now 

 published by Samuel Hartlib, Esq. Dedicated 

 jointly to Oliver Cromwell, Chancellor of the 

 University of Oxford; and to Captain Charles 

 Fleetwood, Commander-in-Chief of all the Forces 

 in Ireland. 1652. 

 Reprinted — See Brit. Mus. Catalogue. *' Ireland, 



Tracts on Natural History, 1 860, &c.^' 



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A Designe for Plentie, By an Universall Planting of 

 Fruit-Trees: Tendered by some Wei- wishers to 

 the Publick. — ^London, Printed for Richard Wode- 

 nothe in Leaden-hall street, over against Leaden- 

 hall. 4to. 1652. 

 Samuel Hartlib, in his prefatory address to the 

 " Courteous and Ingenuous Reader," says, " it is just 

 that every one should have his due ;" and this he does 

 in order : 1st, God's goodness ; 2nd, his Providence ; 

 and 3rd, the Instruments employed. The latter brings 

 him to consider the author of this treatise, who " is not 

 known unto me : for although I have endeavoured by 

 a diligent search to finde out his name, yet I have not 

 been able to compasse the matter f but he has heard 



