132 Notes (9. I— 11. ii). 



the grasse and the mosse may be rot in it, and let your Plough runne a deepe 

 square furrow, and in all manner of ploughing, see that your eye, your hand, and 

 your foote agree, and be alwaies ready one to serue another, and to turne vp so 

 much mold and to lay it flatte that it reare not an edge : for if it stand vp vpon 

 an edge, the grasse and mosse can neuer kindly rotte, which being vsed as it 

 should, is an excellent manuring. 



If you sowe Winter-corne, as eyther Wheate or Rye vpon swarth ground, looke 

 how much Corne toucheth the mosse, so much will be drowned and cannot spring, 

 the mosse in his owne nature dooth keepe so much wette in it selfe. In some 

 Countries, if a man plow deepe, hee shal plough past the good ground, and so haue 

 little Corne, but that Country in my iudgement is not fitte for tyllage, but rather 

 thereto to reare and breede Cattell, as Oxen, Kine, or Sheepe, or els they must 

 goe beate their lands with Mattocks, as they doo in many places of Cornwall, and 

 in some places of Deuonshiere. The manner of plowing land is in three formes : 

 eyther they be great Lands, as with high ridges and deepe furrowes, as in all the 

 North parts of this Land, and in some sotherne parts also, or els flatte and plaine, 

 without ridge or furrow, as in most parts of Cambridge-shiere : or els in little 

 Lands, no Land containing aboue two or three furrowes, as in Midlesex, Essex, 

 and Hartfordshiere. 



For the first, it is needfull, where the grounde is stife, tough, and binding, 

 beeing alwaies capable of much wette, that if the Lands did not lie hie, not onely 

 would the fatnesse choake the Corne ere it could come foorth, but also the colde 

 soaking wette, would confound the vigor and strengthe of the seede. For the 

 second, that is good where the ground is somewhat light, and giuen to barrennesse : 

 so that what forest [read forct] vertue soeuer you thrust into the ground, either by 

 manure or otherwise, the Land lying flatte and plaine, shall still retaine it, not 

 suffering it as els it would to wash away with euery shower. For the last, that 

 is, where the grounde is both barren, cold, and stifle : if there you plough in 

 large Lands, the wether and season will so binde it together, that the seede shall 

 burst, but not finde any passage to sproute. Againe, such ground is subiect to 

 much weede, besides, if your lands should be any greater, you should neuer 

 possibly come to weede them, eyther as they would or they should be done. 



9. I. R. alters this section, noting — " Neuer sowe Pease or Beanes on a light, 

 hote sand ground, for that will neuer beare them, but for the Beane, the ex- 

 treamest and the stifTest ground is the best. If it bee lesse stifle, then the mingled 

 ware ' is best, as Pease and Beanes well sorted. If it bee neither stifle nor light, 

 then cleane Pease is the best, for they wil prosper most kindliest," 



13. I. R. adds — "Pease are an excellent seede, and inrich ground as much as 

 the light manuring : which is the reason, that in many places of Lincoln-shiere, 

 and els where, sowing their inam Wheate where theyr Pease grew, they haue the 

 finest Come." 



10. 1—9. Varied by I. R. 



13. kedlokes\ Kellocks (but elsewhere Kedlocks). 



41. I, R. adds — "because the freshnes of the molde is to the seede very 

 comfortable." 



11. II. wonders] wonderous (which is the later form). The whole of this 



1 Cf. the name pod-ware, as applied to beans and peas. See Halliwell. 



