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Reprinting many Trafis, before the Husbandry wouid ftir n But 
by importunities and Perfeverance at laft he prevailed fo farr, that 
in mo(t County's they were convinced , and began to fce.and tafte, 
and enjoy the publique benefit^ And after our difnial Wars broke 
out, in [he intervals, fomewereby ncceflity conftrain'd to feek 
out all advantages they could hear of, and fome had great oppor- 
tunities for aiiy hopeful or famous EHTays. And thus, on a fmdeu, 
the humor and fpirit of a People is alter'd. Books of Husbandry 
are fold off as faft as thePrefs can print them. Sir Hugh Plats Car- 
den^ diCidJeml H0ufe ; HartUbs Legacy^ Bees^ apart, and Silk- 
worms \ Gab.Flats 5 Sir RichWsJlons Uusbmdry of Flamers; Capr. 
Blith 5 Any thing that fcem'd new and probable : And all our Old 
Georgical Writers are called to a New accompr. Tujfers old rimes 
are fetch't out of the grave and duft ; and happy he,who had got- 
ten Surfiets Coumj'farm^ largely extradcd out of Charles Stevens, 
JohnhiebAult^ Serres, Vinet, all French; Alhjterkiht Spaniardj» 
and Grylli the Italian ; all revived, and enlarged by Markham. The 
next, in oldefteem, was Gcpges noble Ueresbachius ^ znd iBany 
Writers of Gardens, Oi'cbardsand Bees. But of Bees never any 
fo accurately and philofophically as Learned Samuel Vurchas 'm his 
Iheater of Political Flying hfeffs, efpecially Bees : Where we may 
fee the moft diligent, both of the ancient and modern, many times 
over-refuted by fat isfying Experiments and ocular demonftrati- 
Of thefe, Uartlibs Legacy and Sir Rich. Wefions Husbandry of 
Brabant^ carried the greatefl: efteem and pre valency in thefc days 5 
each of them foon commlng abroad in a fourth Edit ion,with amend- 
mcncs and addition?. By al! which helps and improvement s^the 
Soy land Agriculture of EffgUfjd very much enriched ^ above 
what it was in the Reign of Qaeen Elizabeth. 
Since his Majefties Return, the Judicious have defired to fee the 
fcveral kinds and Improvements in Husbandry,as now they fucceed 
beft in the feveral parts of England,c\iit^\i from the remoteft pan?, 
Eafl and Weft, South and ISIorth ; from the Champian Counties , 
and the Vale of Efomf coiw Wales and all the Borders of Wales ^ho- 
ping alfo to receive,in time,a good accompc from Scotland^ Ireland^ 
and the Northern parts of u^wotV;?. 
; For, 'tis obferv'd, that there is great variety of Soy Is in Fngland, 
differing kinds of Agricu! ture,and that our v€ryCattei,0^en>Cows, 
Vv Sheepj 
