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Country contentments, or, The husbandmans recreations : containing the wholesome experience, in which any ought to recreate himself, after the toyle of more serious businesse : as namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grayhounds, and the lavves of lease, shooting in the longbow or crossbow, bouling, tennis, baloone, the whole art of angling, and the use of the fighting cock /

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Main Author:	Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed by W. Wilson, for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge ..., 1656.
Edition:	The eighth edition
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Hunting > England > Early works to 1800. Physical education and training > Early works to 1800.
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Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases : containing the natures, breeding, choice, use, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goats, swine, and tame conies : shewing further, the whole art of riding great horses, with the breaking, and ordering of them : also approved rules for the cramming, and fatting of all sorts of poultry, and fowles, both tame, and wild, &c. and diverse good, and well approved medicines for the cure of all the diseases in hawkes, of what kind soever : together with the use, and profit of bees, the making of fishponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish : gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realm, by exact & assured experience from English practices ...
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