A
DIRECTION
TO
THE
Husbandman
,
in
a
newe
,
cheape
,
and
easie
way
of
Fertiling
and
Inriching
Areable
Grounds
,
&c.
WHereas
the
Kings
Majestie
,
vpon
the
humble
Petition
of
Charles
Mowet
,
Edward
Keeling
,
and
Nathanael
Waterhouse
Gent'
on
the
behalfe
of
themselues
,
and
partners
,
by
His
Letters
Patents
vnder
the
Great
Seale
of
England
,
bearing
date
at
Westminster
the
first
day
of
March
,
in
the
ninth
yeare
of
his
Raigne
,
of
his
especiall
grace
,
certaine
knowledge
,
and
meere
motion
,
Hath
given
,
and
granted
for
him
,
his
Heires
,
and
Successors
,
vnto
the
said
Charles
Mowet
,
Edward
Keeling
,
and
Nathanael
Waterhouse
,
full
and
free
Libertie
,
Licence
,
Power
,
and
Authoritie
,
that
they
,
and
the
Survivor
and
Survivors
of
them
,
their
and
every
of
their
Executors
,
Administrators
,
and
Assignes
,
by
themselves
,
and
their
Deputies
,
Servants
,
Factors
,
Workemen
or
Agents
,
and
none
other
,
should
and
might
at
all
and
every
time
and
times
hereafter
from
time
to
time
,
during
the
Terme
of
Foureteene
Yeares
next
ensuing
the
Date
of
the
said
Letters
Patents
,
vse
,
excercise
,
practise
and
put
in
vse
,
within
His
Kingdomes
of
England
,
Ireland
,
and
Dominion
of
Wales
,
at
every
of
their
wills
,
and
pleasures
,
the
Misterie
,
Art
,
way
and
meanes
,
of
fertiling
and
inriching
of
Areable
Grounds
,
by
a
mixture
in
a
smale
quantitie
,
of
certaine
native
Materialls
with
the
Seed
;
farther
signifying
that
His
will
and
pleasure
was
,
and
by
the
said
Letters
Patents
,
of
His
more
especiall
grace
,
certain
knowledge
,
and
meere
motion
,
for
Him
,
his
Heires
and
Successors
,
straitly
charging
and
inhibiting
all
and
every
other
Person
&
Persons
whatsoever
,
of
what
Estate
,
Degree
,
or
Condition
,
he
or
they
,
or
any
of
them
be
,
that
none
of
them
,
other
then
the
said
Patentees
,
and
the
Survivor
and
Survivors
of
them
,
their
and
every
of
their
Executors
and
Administrators
,
Substitutes
,
Deputies
,
Workemen
,
or
Assignes
,
or
any
of
them
,
doe
or
should
,
during
the
said
Terme
of
Fourteene
yeares
,
use
,
or
practise
,
directly
or
indirectly
the
said
Art
,
way
or
meanes
for
fertiling
and
inriching
of
Areable
Grounds
,
without
the
Licence
,
Consent
,
and
agreement
of
them
the
said
Patentees
,
their
Executors
,
Administrators
,
or
Assignes
,
or
some
,
or
one
of
them
,
first
had
and
obtained
;
And
hath
by
the
said
Letters
Patents
for
Him
,
his
Heires
,
and
Successors
,
willed
and
commanded
all
and
singuler
Majors
,
Sheriffes
,
Iustices
of
Peace
,
Bayliffes
,
Constables
,
Headboroughes
,
and
other
Ministers
and
Subiects
of
Him
,
his
Heires
and
Successors
,
that
they
and
every
of
them
,
be
from
time
to
time
during
the
terme
aforesaid
,
helping
and
assisting
to
the
said
Patentees
,
the
Survivor
and
Survivors
of
them
,
their
and
every
of
their
Executors
,
Administrators
,
Deputies
,
and
Assignes
,
in
all
things
in
and
about
the
accomplishment
of
His
pleasure
therein
declared
,
and
in
the
exercise
and
execution
of
the
same
;
And
that
they
nor
any
of
them
doe
at
any
time
hinder
,
molest
,
or
interrupt
the
said
Patentees
,
or
the
Survivor
or
Survivors
of
them
,
their
or
any
of
their
Executors
,
Administrators
,
Deputies
,
or
Assignes
,
or
any
of
them
,
in
any
wife
concerning
the
Premises
,
as
they
tender
His
pleasure
,
and
would
avoid
the
contrary
at
their
perill
,
as
in
and
by
the
said
Letters
Patents
more
at
large
appeareth
.
In
which
Letters
Pattents
,
the
particuler
naming
of
the
said
Materialls
,
the
Preparations
of
them
,
the
proportions
,
and
manner
of
mixture
,
and
application
of
them
,
aswell
to
the
Seed
,
as
to
the
Ground
,
and
many
other
incidents
,
were
wittingly
omitted
,
as
reserved
to
the
ensuing
discourse
,
purposely
intended
for
a
full
Direction
of
the
Husbandman
in
the
use
,
exercise
,
and
practise
of
the
said
new
Invention
.
Wherin
although
the
Composition
,
hereafter
described
consist
of
ingredients
,
endowed
with
qualities
so
specificall
,
and
powerful
,
in
the
fruitfulling
and
inriching
of
Areable
Grounds
;
and
the
manner
of
application
therof
both
to
the
Seed
,
and
Ground
,
so
proper
for
the
endeaymed
at
;
as
it
might
well
hope
upon
the
very
reading
of
the
same
,
to
gaine
beliefe
amongst
the
ingenious
and
judicious
Husbandmen
,
without
further
proofe
;
yet
because
many
things
in
discourse
,
and
reason
so
concluding
,
as
convince
most
understandings
,
fall
out
oftentmes
to
faile
in
the
practise
,
it
desireth
no
further
faith
or
acceptance
from
any
,
then
such
,
as
a
Demonstrative
,
experimented
successefull
truth
shall
wrest
from
the
most
incredulous
.
Which
experiment
that
it
may
bee
made
without
any
the
least
error
or
mistaking
,
the
Instructions
following
are
set
downe
in
such
plainenesse
,
and
so
distinctly
in
the
materials
,
preparation
,
proportion
,
applycation
,
and
all
other
requisite
particulers
,
as
none
(
not
too
carelesly
negligent
)
can
possibly
erre
.
FIrst
then
,
the
Soyle
being
supposed
to
bee
such
,
as
with
the
vsuall
Husbandries
of
Dunging
,
Marleing
,
Lyming
,
Foulding
,
&c.
will
returne
in
some
good
measure
in
his
season
a
multiplyed
Cropp
of
the
Graine
therein
sowed
;
you
must
give
unto
it
the
ordinary
Tillage
,
according
to
the
Nature
of
the
Sone
,
and
use
of
the
Countrey
.
Your
Seed
being
Wheat
,
Rye
,
Barley
,
or
of
what
other
sort
soever
,
must
be
well
chosen
,
and
cleansed
from
light
Corne
,
and
whatso-else
mixture
of
any
Damagefull
thing
,
with
an
abatement
of
the
fourth
part
of
the
Seed
,
you
usually
gave
in
your
former
courses
of
Husbandry
,
and
yet
you
shall
(
by
the
blessing
of
God
)
finde
your
Corne
as
thicke
and
strong
,
as
if
you
had
given
the
whole
proportion
of
Seed
.
Vpon
every
Bushell
of
Winchester
measure
,
containing
eight
Gallons
,
being
laid
upon
a
Table
or
Course
sheete
Bedwise
,
powre
(
as
on
a
Bed
of
Wooll
)
so
much
of
Rapeseede
Oyle
,
as
will
well
moysten
the
said
Seede
,
stirring
and
tossing
the
Corne
so
oyled
to
and
fro
,
untill
it
bee
well
moistned
and
made
fit
to
receiue
and
joyne
it selfe
with
any
drie
matterialls
,
which
shal
be
added
therto
,
in
Flower
or
powders
.
A
Bushell
of
seede
will
take
about
a
quart
of
Oyle
.
Then
take
one
Quart
of
the
Flower
of
Beanes
,
being
first
M●ulted
.
One
quart
of
the
powder
of
Rapeseede
Cakes
after
the
Oy●e
is
pressed
out
;
One
quart
of
burnt
Lyme
new
from
the
Kilne
,
quenched
with
Vrine
,
and
sifted
;
or
so
much
of
each
of
them
in
equall
parts
,
as
may
well
cover
and
encompasse
the
said
Seede
.
The
Flower
and
Powders
aforesaid
must
bee
very
well
stirred
and
mingled
together
one
with
another
,
which
done
,
strow
them
upon
your
Bushell
of
Oyled
Corne
,
tumbling
and
tossing
them
and
the
graine
one
with
another
,
or
shaking
them
togeather
upon
the
saide
course
sheet
,
untill
the
Corne
have
licked
upp
,
and
united
it selfe
with
the
Flower
and
Powders
,
which
will
soone
bee
done
.
Your
Seede
thus
ordered
,
and
(
as
it
were
)
clothed
with
the
Flower
and
Powders
aforesaid
,
may
presently
bee
sowed
,
or
kept
unsowed
,
Ten
,
Fifteene
,
or
Twenty
dayes
,
before
it
will
growe
,
or
take
other
harme
,
as
hath
beene
tryed
.
In
,
on
after
your
sowing
,
if
your
ground
be
poore
,
and
you
have
plenty
of
the
said
drie
Materialls
,
you
may
strowe
or
throwe
upon
one
Acre
of
Ground
about
two
Bushels
more
or
lesse
of
the
said
Flower
and
Powders
,
as
you
conceive
your
Ground
better
or
worse
.
This
mixture
aforesaid
,
imployed
as
here
described
with
the
Seede
,
and
upon
the
Ground
,
will
really
alone
performe
the
intention
without
any
further
addition
,
as
hath
beene
often
experienced
.
But
that
the
Husbandman
may
bee
fully
furnished
with
all
such
experimented
helpes
,
as
tend
to
this
end
.
And
because
,
for
the
present
,
there
may
bee
in
some
places
want
of
the
said
Materialls
,
or
some
of
them
;
let
him
further
know
,
that
in
lieu
of
them
(
though
not
so
powerfull
)
may
be
used
the
materialls
following
.
As
in
want
of
the
Oyle
,
you
may
use
so
much
of
the
strongest
Woort
.
In
stead
of
the
Flower
of
Beanes
,
so
much
of
the
Flower
of
Barley
Mault
ground
very
small
;
and
for
your
Powder
of
Rape
Oyle
Cakes
,
as
much
of
the
powder
of
Pigeons
dung
dried
and
sifted
,
or
of
the
powder
of
Sheepes
Turdles
drie
:
or
so
much
of
your
Kilp
Ashes
,
or
Berillia
,
where
it
may
bee
had
;
or
so
much
of
Pot
Ashes
;
or
where
Woad
is
set
for
dying
of
Wooll
,
so
much
of
Woad
past
drie
and
brought
into
Powder
:
these
in
equall
proportions
mingled
all
or
some
of
them
,
with
all
or
some
of
the
former
first
described
Flower
and
Powders
,
may
be
succesfully
used
,
either
in
the
dressing
of
the
Oyled
Seede
,
or
in
the
strowing
the
ground
sowed
therewith
,
as
aforesaid
.
But
the
Sheepes
Turdles
must
be
thus
prepared
.
Take
so
much
of
the
said
Turdles
as
you
purpose
to
use
,
and
lay
them
bedwise
in
such
a
thickenesse
,
as
being
moistened
lightly
with
Vrine
,
it
may
gather
a
heate
,
and
grow
inclinable
to
Putrefaction
or
Rottennesse
;
and
so
let
it
rest
,
untill
it
become
somewhat
drie
.
Then
with
a
Rake
,
or
some
other
fitting
instrument
,
stirre
and
tosse
your
bedd
well
,
and
being
againe
layd
Bedwise
,
moysten
it
with
Vrine
as
before
,
and
let
it
so
rest
untill
it
grow
againe
drie
:
then
stirre
and
tosse
it
againe
,
and
lay
it
as
before
Bedwise
,
and
moisten
it
with
Vrine
.
So
continuing
from
time
to
time
this
course
of
moistning
,
drying
,
and
stirring
the
said
Bedd
,
untill
the
Turdles
bee
throughly
putrifyed
and
rotten
;
so
as
they
fall
into
powder
:
then
let
them
drie
,
and
take
the
powder
for
your
use
.
The
elder
and
more
rotten
the
Turdles
bee
,
the
more
effectually
they
worke
.
So
much
of
the
aforesaid
Materialls
as
bee
necessary
,
are
every
where
to
be
had
,
though
in
some
parts
further
of
,
and
dearer
then
in
other
.
That
which
may
seeme
most
difficult
to
be
got
in
some
places
,
is
the
Rape
Oyle
and
Rape
Cakes
,
which
yet
by
the
late
dispersing
of
that
Husbandry
into
most
Shires
,
is
not
hard
to
bee
had
.
But
if
it
be
found
any
where
lacking
,
any
wealthy
Husbandman
may
(
hiring
of
a
servant
from
some
of
the
Oyle
Workes
)
Convert
some
of
his
Greenesword
to
that
use
,
and
so
furnish
himselfe
,
and
neighbours
aboundantly
,
and
cheape
,
and
to
his
owne
very
great
profit
;
and
in
the
meane
time
,
some
other
of
the
former
Ingredients
may
be
used
in
stead
thereof
.
And
this
may
suffice
for
Direction
.
The
skilfull
Husbandman
by
what
hath
beene
said
,
will
take
occasion
as
experience
shall
guide
him
,
to
fit
and
accommodate
things
,
as
hee
shall
finde
most
behoofefull
,
though
now
and
then
varying
from
what
is
formerly
prescribed
.
There
bee
sundrie
other
Materialls
which
are
knowne
to
be
of
great
force
in
the
fruitfulling
of
Areable
Grounds
;
and
might
bee
easily
drawne
to
this
imployment
,
whereunto
the
former
Flowers
,
Ashes
,
and
Powders
bee
applyed
.
But
because
these
are
to
be
had
but
in
small
proportions
,
and
but
in
fewe
places
,
they
are
purposely
omitted
,
as
not
answering
the
vniversalitie
of
this
Intention
.
There
be
other
moystures
to
supply
that
of
Rape
Oyle
,
or
of
the
Woort
,
for
moystening
the
Seede
,
and
other
Ashes
and
Powders
for
cloathing
the
Seede
,
and
strowing
upon
the
Ground
,
which
prepared
according
to
Art
,
are
upon
no
light
prosumptions
,
conceived
as
powerfull
in
fruitfulling
and
inriching
Areable
Grounds
,
as
the
other
formerly
named
:
But
because
as
yet
they
have
not
beene
so
farre
,
and
fully
experimented
,
as
to
be
offered
as
a
certaintie
,
their
mention
is
now
forborne
;
but
shall
(
God
willing
)
upon
some
further
tryalls
,
be
communicated
for
the
publicke
good
.
Although
by
that
which
hath
before
been
said
by
way
of
Direction
in
this
new
Course
of
Manuring
,
the
Husbandman
cannot
but
observe
many
benefits
arising
thereby
,
above
those
growing
by
the
ordinary
Tillages
vsed
;
yet
shall
it
not
be
amisse
to
say
something
in
particular
of
that
also
.
In
this
way
,
the
trouble
of
Foulding
,
the
labour
of
carrying
great
quantities
of
Dung
,
Lyme
,
Marle
,
&c.
and
the
spreading
thereof
is
spared
,
and
the
fetching
of
some
of
them
divers
myles
,
and
at
great
prices
;
Whereas
the
quantities
of
these
Materialls
used
in
this
way
are
so
small
,
as
will
cost
little
,
and
so
light
as
the
carriage
will
be
easie
,
and
the
applying
them
to
the
Seede
and
ground
,
askes
little
more
trouble
then
the
very
sowing
of
the
Seede
it selfe
.
The
Dunging
,
Foulding
,
Marling
,
Lyming
,
&c.
formerly
bestowed
upon
the
Arable
Grounds
,
may
now
be
converted
to
the
fruitfulling
of
the
Greenesword
.
A
fourth
part
of
your
Seed
is
saved
,
which
will
neere
,
if
not
wholly
,
countervaile
the
charge
of
the
Materialls
.
The
Flowers
,
Ashes
,
and
Powders
encompassing
the
Seed
,
moistened
as
aforesaid
,
defendeth
it
from
the
devouring
of
Fowle
,
Mise
,
Wormes
,
&c.
The
poorer
sort
,
who
want
Cattell
to
breed
,
and
money
to
buy
Soyle
,
shall
in
this
course
,
with
little
or
no
charge
supply
that
want
.
In
this
husbandrie
,
you
may
Sow
the
same
Ground
every
yeare
,
and
so
spare
the
more
to
Meadow
and
Pasture
.
Besides
the
generall
good
to
the
Common
wealth
,
it
will
better
all
Tythes
of
Graine
,
to
the
benefit
of
Incumbents
,
and
others
to
whom
the
Tythes
be
due
.
A
fewe
yeares
experience
will
(
no
doubt
)
bring
to
light
many
other
Commodities
arising
by
this
invention
,
not
now
thought
of
,
but
for
the
present
these
may
serve
.
For
Conclusion
,
when
you
have
carefully
and
exactly
followed
the
Directions
aforesaid
,
and
(
it
may
be
)
in
some
things
bettered
them
,
take
heed
you
doe
not
so
depend
upon
these
outward
meanes
,
though
never
so
good
,
as
to
forget
the
Cause
of
Causes
.
Sacrifice
not
unto
your
Nett
,
nor
burne
Incense
unto
your
Dragge
,
&c.
Habak.
1.
16.
Trust
not
in
your
way
.
Hosea
10
,
13.
But
looke
up
unto
God
,
from
whom
all
good
,
for
a
blessing
upon
your
Labours
;
and
know
that
rebelling
against
him
,
all
things
will
rebell
against
you
Heaven
will
bee
as
Iron
,
and
your
Earth
as
Brasse
.
Levit.
26.
19.
Deut.
28.
23.
The
Raine
will
be
made
to
your
Land
as
Powder
and
Dust.
Deut.
28.
14.
The
Seed
shall
rott
under
their
Clodds
,
the
Garners
lye
desolate
,
&c.
Ioel
1.
17.
He
shall
give
your
increase
to
the
Caterpiller
,
and
your
labour
to
the
Locust
.
Psal.
78.
46.
Whereas
if
you
obey
,
all
the
good
blessings
of
God
shall
come
upon
you
,
and
overtake
you
.
He
will
give
you
the
first
and
the
later
raine
in
due
season
,
and
the
Land
shall
yeeld
her
Increase
.
Levit.
26.
3.
4.
Deut.
11.
14.
&
28.
12.
He
will
heare
the
Heavens
,
and
they
shall
heare
the
Earth
,
and
the
Earth
stall
heare
the
Corne.
Hosea
2.
21.
22.
You
shall
be
blessed
in
the
Field
,
blessed
in
the
fruite
of
your
Ground
;
blessed
in
your
basket
,
and
in
your
store
.
Deut.
28.
3.
4.
5.
He
shall
restore
to
you
the
yeares
that
the
Locust
hath
eaten
,
the
Cankerworme
,
and
the
Caterpiller
,
and
the
Palmerworme
,
his
great
Army
which
he
sent
amongst
you
.
Ioel
2.
25.
Breake
up
your
Fallow
Grounds
,
and
Sowe
not
among
Thornes
;
Sowe
to
your selues
in
Righteousnesse
:
Reape
in
Mercie
:
For
it
is
time
to
seeke
the
Lord
,
till
he
come
and
raine
Righteousnesse
upon
you
.
Ier.
4.
3.
Hosea
10.
12.
FINIS
.