14-8 RURAL E("OXOMY IN YORKSHIRE IN 1641. 



wee looke that the pales bee sure betwixt the backe-orcbard 

 and staggarth, and then doe wee putte in the swine to worke 

 amongst it, and lett them lye there a night or two, and by this 

 meanes the strawe is made lovinger, and is aUsoe kept from 

 growinge on the howses ; and of this strawe doe the servants 

 nowe and then take for litters and beddinge for the horses. 



See more of this subjeekt in the latter ende of the second 

 booke before the treatise of bees. 



Other shorte Remembrances for Thatchinge. 

 After that an howse is latted, the first thatch that is layd on 

 woulde bee of rye-strawe, well wrote amongst, and well wa- 

 tered. Yow are to provide a greate many bandes for sewings 

 of the thatch that is firet layd on ; the bandes are usually made 

 of the smallest haver-strawe, beinge first well twined, and after 

 that twined togeather againe, after the manner of a two plette ; 

 wee usually make our threshers make the bandes, providinge 

 three or fower allwayes before hand, accordinge to the number 

 of places wheare it is to bee served ; for if the forkes bee fif- 

 teene or sixteene foote liigh, then they will sewe in three seve- 

 rall places ; if nineteene or twenty foote high, then they will 

 sowe doAvne theire thatch in fower places, viz. ; first close to the 

 very wall plates, then two foote belowe the side wivers, then 

 two foote above the side wivers, and then, lastly, aboute a yard 

 or more belowe the rigge-tree ; goinge straight forward, and att 

 a hke distance, lasteninge it aboute everie sparre as they goe, 

 and allsoe sowinge once aboute a latte, ever betwixt span-e and 

 sparre : but howsoever they doe, the fii'st sowinge is as close to 

 the wall plates as they [can gette]. 



FINIS. 



