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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87190	Samuel Hartlib his legacie: or An enlargement of the Discourse of husbandry used in Brabant and Flaunders; wherein are bequeathed to the Common-wealth of England more outlandish and domestick experiments and secrets in reference to universall husbandry. Entered according to the late Act concerning printing.; Legacy of husbandry	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.; Dymock, Cressy, attributed name.; Child, Robert, ca. 1612-1654, attributed name.; Weston, Richard, Sir, 1591-1652. Discours of husbandrie used in Brabant and Flanders.	1651 (1651)	Wing H989; Thomason E628_11; ESTC R202377	80,387	139

labour cost or skill than other seeds And further that the materials made from these are extreamly necessary for how miserable should we be without Linnen Canvases Cordage Nets how can we put our Ships to Sea which are the bulwarks of this Isle And yet we are necessitated to have these Commodities from those who would destroy I will not say the Nation but I may boldly say our Shipping and Trade I hope that this will more seriously be considered by those at the Helme of our State I will freely and plainly relate how this Deficiency may easily be Remedyed according to my judgement 1. To compell by a law that all Farmers who plough and sowe 50. or 100. Acres of land should sowe halfe an Acre or an Acre of Hempe or Flax or to pay 5. s. or 10. s. to the poore of the Parish where they live or some law to this purpose for there is no man but hath land fit for one of these Hempe desiring a stiffe land Flax that which is light For there is so much irrationality in some professions that they must be forced even like brutes to understand their own good In King Edward the 6. dayes something was enacted to this purpose as I am informed In Henry 8. dayes there was a law enacted that every man should sowe his lands and that no man should enclose his lands least he should turne it to Pasture for we have had great dearth in England through the neglect of Tillage which lawes even as yet stand in force yet there is nor needeth there be any force to compell men to till and sowe their lands for they have at length found the sweetnesse and willingly go about it for their own profits sake and now we suppose and not without cause that Enclosing is an Improvement and so concerning Hempe and Flaxe I say if they were once accustomed to sowe them they would never leave it as I see Farmers do in East-Kent scarce a man but he will have a considerable plot of ground for Hempe and about London far greater quantities of Flax is sown then formerly 2. It were convenient that every Parish through the Nation should have a stocke for to set their poor to worke that the young children and women might not run up and down idle and begging or stealing as they do in the Countrey of Apples Pease Wood Hedges and so by little and little are trained up for the Gallowes 3. That a severe law should be enacted against those who run up and downe and will not worke for if all know that they may have worke at home and earne more within doores honestly then by running rogueing up and downe why should they not compell them to it and though some may think the Parishes will lose much by this way because that the stock wrought will not be put off but with losse as perhaps 10. l. will be brought to 8. l. yet let them consider how much they shall save at their doors how many inconveniences they are freed from their hedges in the Countrey shall not be pulled their fruits stolne nor their Corne purloined and further that the poor will be trained up to worke and therefore fit for any service yea and in their youth learne a calling by the which they may get an honest lively hood and I dare say their Assessements for the poor would not be so frequent nor the poor so numerous and the benefit which redownds to the Nation would be very great 4. The charitable deeds of our fore-fathers ought to be enquired after that they be not misplaced as usually they are but be really bestowed for the good of the poore that are laborious as in London is begun and if there be any that will not worke take Saint Pauls rule who best knew what was best for them I dare not advise to take in part of Commons Fens c. and to improve them for this use least I should too much provoke the rude mercilesse multitude But to returne to my discourse I say that sowing Hempe and Flax will be very beneficial 1. To the Owners of land for men usually give in divers places 3. l. per Acre to sowe Hempe and Flax as I have seen at Maidstone in Kent which is the onely place I know in England where thread is made and though nigh a hundred hands are imployed about it yet they make not enough for this Nation and yet get good profit How advantageous will this be to those who have drained the Fens where questionless Hempe will flourish and exsiccate the ground for Hempe desireth stiffe moist land as Flax light and dry and like wise to those in the North of England where land is very cheape I hope in a little time Ireland will furnish us with these commodities if we be idle for there land is very cheap and those seeds need no inclosure for cattel will not touch them neither doth it feare the plunderer either in the field or barne 2. It 's profitable to the sower I know that they usually value an Acre at 10. or 12. l. which costeth them usually but halfe the money Whether there be Flax that will yield 30. or 40. l. per Acre as some report I know not 3. To the place where it is sowne because it sets many poore to worke I wish it were encouraged more in the North than it is because there be many poore who could willingly take paines and though spinning of linnen be but a poor worke yet it is light and may be called Womens recreation and in France and Spaine the best Citizens wives think it no disgrace to go about spinning with their Rocks and though in some part the poore think it nothing to earne 4. or 6. d. per day and will as soon stand with their hands in their pockets as worke cheape yet in the North they account it well to earne 3. d. or 4. d. by spinning which they may do Lastly it would be very beneficial to this Nation and save many thousand pounds I may say 100. thousands which are expected either in cash or good Commodities and we should not be beholding to Holland for fine linnen and Cordage nor to France for Poldavices Locrams Canvaces nets nor to Flaunders for thread but might be supplyed abundantly with these necessary Commodities even at our own doors There is no small Deficiency in dunging and manuring lands both because that all manner of manuring 9. Deficiency concerning Dunging and Manuring Lands and amending lands is not known to every one and also that they do not imploy all they know to the best use I will therefore set downe most of the wayes I have seen here in England and beyond Seas by which land is improved and the best wayes to use the same 1. To begin with Chalke which is as old a way as Julius Cesars time as he himselfe reporteth in his Commentaries Chalke is of 2. sorts 1. A hard strong dry Chalke with which in