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england_n	certain_a	king_n	year_n	3,227	5	4.7551	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75864	Adam armed: or, An essay; endeavouring to prove the advantages and improvements the kingdom may receive, and the inconveniencies and impediments it may avoid and remedy, by the means of a well-ordered and duly ratified charter for incorporating and regulating the professors of the art of gardening, humbly offered and presented by the master and company of the same.	Worshipful Company of Gardeners (London, England)	1700 (1700)	Wing A470; ESTC R170055	8,392	12

Adam Armed OR An ESSAY endeavouring to prove the Advantages and Improvements the Kingdom may receive and the Inconveniencies and Impediments it may avoid and remedy by the means of a well-ordered and duly ratifi●d Charter for Incorporating and Regulating the Professors of the Art of Gardening Humbly Offered and Presented by the Master and Company of the same 1. IT may be worth the Pains of those who are Lovers of Gardening to consider the Perfection which that Art is arrived to since the Third Year of the Reign of King JAMES the First when we find a Charter granted under the Broad-Seal of England to certain Persons inhabiting within London and six Miles of it who were capable and competent to Educate and Instruct young Men in the Art 2. And that King being sensible of the happy Effects to the Kingdom by reason and means of the said Charter was pleased in the Fourteenth Year of his Reign to renew that Charter and to grant sundry Additional Priviledges with Power to make such Laws as they should think requisite for the better Governing their Corporation and the Members thereof and also Power to take notice of all such Persons as should interlope into the said Art without serving thereto according to the Laws and Ordinances of the said Corporation 3. The Abstract of the said Charter with all Proclamations granted by the said King and his Successors to the said Corporation with their Laws made for the Government of the same are mentioned in a proper place and Reference is thereunto had 4. And from the Premisses it appears there was nothing wanting in His said Majesty nor indeed His Successors to make the said Corporation a well-regulated Body of Men able to Educate a Succession of Gardeners to serve the Kingdom in respective Occasions as some the Nobility and Gentry some the Markets which we call Kitchen-Gardening some in Flowers and choice Greens some in Nurseries of all sorts of Fruit-Trees Hardy Ever-greens and Trees for Avenues others in the Designing Part that is to make Gardens and Plantations some in Botany or Culture of Plants in general and some in this Corporation as general Practitioners in all the Varieties of this Noble Art 5. And it is at this time demonstrable that several of the Nobility and Gentry's Gardens and Plantations suffer very much from the unkilful Gardeners which they employ who never serving their Time to the Profession are not qualified to receive under their Charge such Noble Gardens and Plantations 6. It is also found by experience That several Gentlemen who are Landlords are great Sufferers by such Persons who pretend themselves to be Master Gardeners and to furnish the Market with Eatables for these take a Piece of Ground but for want of Judgment how to crop and manure the same as requisite they in few years run out their Stock of ready Money disappoint their Landlords of their Rents and leave the Ground in a worse condition than they found it Whereas if they had been Able Masters of their Profession they might have improved their grounds to much greater value and so enriched themselves and much benefitted their Landlords but these are not the only Losses and Abuses many more are evident and some enumerated in another place 7. If it be demanded Why the Corporation hath not put their Laws in Execution for regulating those Enormities which have been and are committed And Why more good Laws are not made to regulate young Men in the said Art and so prevent the Abuses premised and others 8. It may be answered That the said Corporation hath wanted the assistance of an Act of Parliament to give them Power to put those Laws in execution which by the King's Letters Patents they had Leave to make 9. For the well-affected part of the Corporation being poor and in those days not many in number they could not prevail with the greater and richer part of it to joyn pertinent Methods and having no coercive Power for want of an Act of Parliament the Ordinances could not actuate and so Irregularities increased which is found very prejudicial not only to the Welfare of the said Corporation but to all the great Gardens and Plantations of the Kingdom 10. But indeed thô the Laws of the said Charters had been capable of Execution yet their Limits were so narrow that only a few in comparison of the whole Kingdom could partake of their Benefit and besides Offenders found it an easie matter to evade all Penalties pronounced against them by removing and disposing themselves without the Precinct which brought the said Charters even under contempt as well as to be of no use Hence if such a Corporation may be esteemed useful to the Kingdom for preventing the premised Abuses and for procuring certain Advantages as discussed in proper place it 's humbly supposed That a Charter extensive all over the Kingdom may be necessary as well as most agreeable 11. And if such an Enlargement be granted and confirmed by Act of Parliament the Master and Wardens of the said Company do promise for themselves and their Successors in the Corporation to Ordain Make and cause to be Kept such Methods Laws and Ordinances as shall be best for Educating young Men in the several Divisions of Gardening in order to Qualifie them to serve any Noblemen or Gentlemen whatsoever and for Punishing ignorant People who intrude themselves into the Profession without having served their Time Thus a Charter so comprehensive and ratified as premised and prayed is capable of giving the Kingdom these Advantages 1. The preventing and remedying the Abuses and Losses many do suffer and all are liable to by the Undertakings and Pretensions of Persons that are ignorant in the Designs and Performances of Gardening some of which are enumerated in a due place 2. The Accommodation of the Nobility and Gentry many whereof do much favour encourage and promote the Advancement of the Profession and its Designs with able and skilful Servants for the manage of their Plantations and the improvement of their Estates by Knowledge they are furnished with in the Nature of Grounds and Climates This Society upon the Settlement premised undertaking to Educate Train and Instruct Youth in all and every the Parts of the Profession so that thence may be successively drawn Persons proper for all Occasions 3. And the Kingdom will then receive the Progresses Improvements and useful Observations that have been made in the Art and hitherto kept in obscurity by reason of the Discouragement that Ignorance and thence Malice and Mean-spiritedness has caused against all Attempts to impart any thing 4. Which Impediments thô they have disappointed the Kingdom of many Ornaments and Advantages yet so well enclined and affectioned have some among the Nobility and Gentry been to to the Art that by their Encouragement Protection Shelter and Example it has so thriven that many excellent Performances have been able to appear in the World and indeed it seems so far to have gained