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the profit and relief e of his poore distressed neighbour, 

 to which two things we were chief ely created, I thought 

 it good to send you here (as a token and a testimonie 

 of my thankf ull mind, for your sundry friendships and 

 curtesies shewed vnto me) a rude draught of the 

 order and manner of the said countrie life, which you 

 may vse (if it please you) for your recreation. And 

 afterwards (if so you thinke it meet) publish vnder 

 your protection, to the commoditie and benefit of 

 others. Fare you well: from Kingstone.' 



In his epistle to the reader he thus speaks of the 

 Cultivation of the Vine : * I am fully perswaded if 

 diligence, and good husbandrie might be vsed, wee 

 might haue a reasonable good wine growing in many 

 places of this realme : as vndoubtedly we had imme- 

 diately after the Conquest, till partly by slothfulnesse 

 not liking any thing long that is painefull, partly by 

 ciuill discord long continuing it was left, and so with 

 time lost, as appeareth by a number of places in this 

 realme, that keepes still the name of vineyards : and 

 vpon many cliffes and hilles are yet to be seene the 

 rootes, and olde remaines of vines. There is besides 

 Notingham an auncient house called Chilwell, in which 

 house remaineth yet as an auncient monument in a 

 great window of glasse, the whole order of planting, 

 proyning, stamping, and pressing of vines. Besides, 

 there is yet also growing an olde vine that yeelds a 



