xxiv Inti'oduction. • 



7. By Thomas Marshe ; (1560). This edition is said to be 

 " newly corrected and amended by the author, Fitzherbarde ;" 

 but is, of course, a mere reprint. See remarks upon this 

 above. (Lowndes ; Dibdin, iv. 534.) In Arber's Transcript 

 of the Stationers' Registers, i. 128, we find — " Recevyd 

 of Thomas Marshe for his lycense for pryntinge of a boke 

 Called the boke of husbondry, graunted the xx of June 

 [1560] . . iiij. d. Hence the date, which is not given, may 

 be inferred. 



8. By John Awdeley ; i6mo. 1562 ; " wyth diuers addicions 

 put ther-vnto." (Dibdin, iv. 566.) 



9. By John Awdeley; 8vo. 1576; "with diuers additions 

 put therunto." (Dibdin, iv. 568.) 



10. Fitzharbert's | BOOKE OF | Husbandrie. | Devided Into 

 foure seuerall Bookes, very ne | cessary and profitable for all 

 sorts I of people. And now newlie corrected, amended, and 

 reduced into a more pleasing forme of English then before. 

 Ecclesiast. 10. ver. 28. Better is he that laboureth, and hath 

 plentiousnesse of all thinges, then hee that is gorgious | and 

 wanteth bread. At LONDON, I Printed by J. R. for Edward 

 White, and are | to be sold at his shoppe, at the little North 

 doore of Paules Church, at the signe of the Gunne. | Anno 

 Dom. 1598. Dedicated "To the Worshipfull Maister Henne 

 lackman Esquire^' ... by " Your Worships in affection L R." 

 Of this book I shall say more below. I have used the copy 

 in the Douce Collection in the Bodleian Library.^ 



11. etc. There are numerous other editions. Hazlitt men- 

 tions one by R. Kele (no date), " newlye corrected and 

 amended by the auctor Fitzherbarde, with dyuers additions 

 put therunto." Lowndes says : " London, by Richard Kele, 

 i6mo. There are two editions, one containing H, the other I, 



1 Mr. Wallis (see p. xiii, note 2) mentions also an undated edition, printed by 

 yames Roberts for E. White. 



