A way to get wealth : containing five principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband, or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding, of all sorts of cattell, and fowle, fit for the service of man: as also the riding & dieting horses, either for warre or pleasur. II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practise of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a housewife, in phisick, surgery, extration of oiles, banquets, cookery, ordering of feasts, preserving of wine, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, dying, use of dayries, malting, brewing, baking, and the profit of oates. IV. The enrichment of the Weald in Kent. V. The husbanding, & enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equal with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine, and computation of men, and cattels labours, &c. VI. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, & the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. /
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- [pt.1] 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 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, and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to use them in their travaile. 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 fish-ponds, 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, both certain easy, and cheap; differing from all former and forraign experiments, which either agreed not with our clime, or were too hard to come by, or over-costly, and to little purpose; all which herein are avoyded. Newly corrected and inlarged with many excellent additions, as may appeare by this marke, [manicule]. The seventh edition. Printed at London by Bernard Alsop, for Iohn Harrison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard. 1648.
- [pt.2] Country contentments : or, the hvsbandmans recreations. Contayning the wholsome experiences, in which any man ought to recreate himselfe, after the toyle of more serious businesse. As namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with greyhounds, and the laws of leash, shooting in longbow or crossbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling; and the use of the fighting cock. By G.M. The sixth edition. Newly corrected, enlarged, and adorned with many excellent additions, as may appeare by this mark [manicule]. London, printed by William Wilson, for Iohn Harison, in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1649.
- [pt.3] The English house-wife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. As her skill in physick, surgery, cookery, extraction of oyles, banqueting stuffe, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sorts of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfumes, ordering of wooll, hemp, flax, making cloth and dying, the knowledge of dayries, office of malting, of oates, their excellent uses in a family, of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a houshold. A work generally approved, and now the fifth time much augmented, purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this Kingdom. By G.M. London. Printed by B. Alsop for John Harison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard. 1649.
- [pt.4] The inrichment of the Weald of Kent: or, a direction to the husband-man, for the true ordering, manuring, & inriching of all the grounds with the Wealds of Kent, and Sussex; and may generally serve for all the grounds in England of that nature: as, 1. Shewing the nature of Wealdish grounds, comparing it with the soyle of the Shires at large. 2. Declaring what the marle is, and the several sorts thereof, and where it is usually found. 3. The profitable use of marle, and other rich manuring, as well in each sort of arable land, as also for the encrease of corne and pasture throughout the Kingdome. Painfully gathered for the good of this Iland, by a man of great eminence and worth, but revised, inlarged, and corrected with the consent, and by conference with the first author. By Gervase Markham. London, printed by Eliz. Purflow, for John Harison, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Holy-Lambe at the East-end of Pauls. 1649.
- [pt.5] Markham's farewell to hvsbandry: or, the enriching of all sorts of barren and sterile grounds in our Kingdome, to be as fruitfull in all manner of graine, pulse, and grasse, as the best grounds whatsoever: together with the annoyances, and preservation of all graine and seed, from one yeare to many yeares. As also a husbandly computation of men and cattels dayly labours, their expences, charges, and utmost profits. Now newly the fourth time revised, corrected, and amended, together with many new additions, and cheape experiments: for the bettering of arable, pasture, and woody grounds: of making good all grounds againe, spoiled with overflowing of salt water by sea-breaches; as also, the enriching of the hop-garden, and many other things never published before. London, printed by by William Wilson, for Iohn Harison, in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1649.
- [pt.6] A new orchard, and garden; or, the best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good for a rich orchard: particularly in the North, and generally for the whole Kingdom of England, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country-houswifes garden for herbs of common use: their virtues, seasons, profits, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also, the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances. All being the experience of fourty and eight years labour, and now the second time corrected, and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants; with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation. London, printed by by William Wilson, for Iohn Harison, in St. Pauls Church-yard. 1648