The inrichment of the Weald of Kent, or, A direction to the husbandman for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds within the wealds of Kent and Sussex : and may generally serve for all the grounds in of that nature, as 1. Shewing the nature of wealdish ground, comparing it with the soyl of the shires at large; 2. Declaring what marle, and the several sorts thereof, and where it it is usually found; 3. The profitable use of marle and other rich manuring as well in each sort of arrable land as also for the encrease of corn and pasture through the kingdom / painfully gathered for the good of this island by a man of great eminence and worth ; but revised, enlarged, and corrected with the consent, and by conference with, the first author by G. Markham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--England--Weald of Kent--Early works to 1800.

Agriculture.

Moles (Animals).

Marl.

England--Weald of Kent.

Marl--England--Weald of Kent--Early works to 1800.

Moles (Animals)--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 19 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Direction to the husbandman for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds within the wealds of Kent and Sussex.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Hannah Sawbridge ..., 1683.

Notes:

Originally issued as part of (?): A way to get wealth. 14th ed. 1683.

Dedication signed: Gervase Markham.

Includes (p. 71 [i.e. 17]-19): The several wayes, according to the opinion of writers, and the certain wayes, according to the experience of husbandmen, for the destruction of moals, or moles which digg and root up the earth, how to reduce and bring the ground to thr [sic] first goodness, having been spoiled by them.

Local Notes:

With: Country contenments, or, the husbanmans recreations. / by G. Markham. The eleventh edition. London : Printed for George Sawbridge, 1683.

Cited in:

Goldsmiths' Lib. cat., 2512.

Wing M645.

OCLC:

21936189