planted here in England, till most abusively put down, for the benefit of custom; the increase of a vineyard being by computation four tons per acre, an old vine lately in Kent producing near a hogshead of pure

wine.

Item, There is a root ordinarily to be had, that will grow as plentifully as carrots, that hath been formerly sold for one shilling the pound, and will now sell for at least seven-pence the pound, not instanced be fore, being a staple commodity.

Item, Seven several sorts of seeds, that will yield either of them constantly above twenty pounds an acre, per annum, not hinted before.

Item, Another seed that will afford twenty pounds, and upwards, an acre, per annum, nothing thereunto belonging being edible, or applicable for health.

Item, Fifty pounds an acre offered this year, in Gloucestershire, and so for many acres, these nine being neither of the five sorts following, viz. oade, osiers, rape seed, fennel seed, or saffron.

Divers excellent and new discovered experiments, to avoid the smuttiness of corn, and mildews.

Out of land worn out of heart, and naturally poor, to have a crop of oats, and a full crop of excellent fruitful hay after it, the same year, and to advantage the ground for crops of grass afterwards exceedingly. Item, To inrich meadows in a very high nature without muck, or any course of watering, and to make them yield five times more grass than formerly.

Item, To make rushy ground to bear very good grass, and to destroy rushes, fearn, &c.

Item, Another way to make an acre of meadow, every year, as good as two acres, only by casting a seed amongst it, which may be ordinarily provided for other meadows.

Item, A seed that affordeth, being sown in Yorkshire, out of two pecks and a half, as much as was sold for near forty pounds, which may be performed elsewhere.

Item, By laying out five shillings per acre, to reap it in the pounds. Item, When lands are tilled till they will bear no corn, and mowed till they yield no grass, to restore them both to good heart and strength, and to far greater fruitfulness than ever they yielded before, without laying so much as a load of muck thereon, or without any considerable charge or trouble. And, by a way likewise newly experimented, to make a barren field quite out of heart, or, being the last year of a lease, to yield an extraordinary good crop of corn, without muck, and with no charge, and but little trouble.

Item, A late experiment, no way repugnant to the dictates of common reason, to cause lands, by God's permission, they being capable of improvement, to return twenty, haply one-hundred for one, either in wheat or barley; and to make it most apparent by luculent demonstrations, that there hath, and may be made a greater return by far of either.

Item, After a man hath tilled and sowed a parcel of ground, at the full height and charge, according to his uttermost skill and experience

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in husbandry, to undertake to dispose of the one half part of the same parcel, so that, with the blessing of God, it may happily quadruple the benefit of the other part; and to make the same advantage of any other field of corn, and much more, if I may have the total disposal thereof.

Item, Directions concerning the great variety of compost for the several conditions and capacities of grounds, with divers new discove ries relating thereunto. The true understanding and practice thereof will, under God, inrich any industrious man whatsoever.

Item, A clear demonstration (by ways consonant to reason, and not formerly known or thought on, to make exceeding rich muck in abundance, a thousand loads and upwards, if you please, for all sorts of grounds, according to the capacities they lie under, several ways, with little charge; wherewith any man may be sufficiently furnished, and so good, that the world cannot afford better, without the use of sheep.

Item, A very late, but a most certain and infallible experiment, to be confirmed by principles of sound reason, visible to any dubious and unbelieving mind whatsoever, to draw forth the earth to her uttermost fruitfulness, and to moisten, fatten, and fertilise sandy, dry, and hilly grounds, and to water them sufficiently in times of drought, and to make them capable of vast advantages both for grass and corn, and to continue them in the highest condition, without carrying a load of muck thereunto; which way may be enjoyed in a plentiful manner, the charge not considerable. This will likewise produce much fertility to all manner of quicksets, all sorts of plants, all kinds of trees, and to gardens likewise, being seasonably applied; which may be made out clear, easy, and no ways obstructive to ordinary apprehensions. And these two last may be performed accordingly throughout England.

Item, To make the tenth part of seed-corn to serve with far greater advantage than with the usual proportion.

Item, A late rare invention, to make five loads of dung more effectual than twenty loads of the usual compost, and one acre of ground generally to extend as far, and to be as beneficial for corn as three acres, and to last so constantly.

Item, Whereas there hath been a very great destruction of beans and pease these late years, by worms and other creeping things, men being ignorant of any remedy therefor, to discover a rational and an experimented easy way, generally to destroy them, both in corn-fields, gardens, and at the roots of trees, and very much to advantage and fertilise the grounds and trees thereby.

To make grounds free from rotting of cattle, and to prescribe reme dies to cure the rot, if not too far gone, and to prevent the same.

Item, An excellent experiment to make trees bear much and exceeding good fruit.

That I know where there is now to be had five-hundred acres of ground intire, at eight shillings the acre, within fifteen miles of London, whereby there may be justifiably raised eight-thousand pounds per annum, and so proportionably with less parcels, which may be performed in other places accordingly.

Item, To make cattle, swine, and poultry fat with water only, mingled with earth.

Item, Several excellent experiments to help maturation.

Item, A sort of ducks now to be had, that will lay two eggs a day constantly.

Item, A sort of rabbits to be now had (not mingled, which have been in request formerly) but such as their skins are, now are worth two shillings and three shillings the skin, which begin nearly to come in estimation equal to beaver. And another breed thereof, that are as big again as the ordinary rabbits.

Item, Directions how a cart may be made to draw with one horse as much as five horses. This King James beheld with his full approbation, and for the putting the same in practice throughout England, I had a patent from him in my disposal.

To make clay burn like other fire, and to be equally useful upon all

occasions.

Item, A way to conveigh water under the ground up a steep hill to the uppermost part of a very high house, and to be useful at all times, in all offices about the house, and near the house, &c.

Item, To empty and cleanse rivers and moats of all mud, without going into the water, use of boats, diverting the stream, or letting out the water by ditches, sluices, &c. and with great facility and little charge.

Item, To make perfect iron with sea-coal, or pit-coal, and to charcoal pit-coal to dry malt, and for divers other necessary conveniencies, to make charcoal last long.

Item, To keep cabbage, artichokes, and all sorts of roots in the house all the winter.

Item, Most certain directions to discover salt springs, with the degrees of the brine, and how to order the liquor, and to divide it from the fresh springs according to experience.

An approved way to make old cattle fat in a very short time, and to make their flesh eat as tender as the youngest.

Item, To make heifers larger, fairer, and more proportionable than their ordinary breed.

Item, To make starch without the use and abuse of corn.

Item, To make a composition without charge, which will perform all things equal to soap.

To make flax like silk.

To bring all the fishes in a pond together, &c. and to increase store, and preserve fish-ponds several excellent ways.

To store a pigeon-house, and to cause them to stay, aud not to stray to other houses, and to make them breed most part, if not all the year; the charge of food not considerable.

To take red or fallow deer, especially the best and fattest in a forest, park, or straggling abroad, as easily as you may take fish with a bait; or, to make them fall down as if they were dead, and yet no harm, so that you may approach and dispose of them at pleasure.

Several excellent new inventions to take both foxes, pole-cats, and other vermin.

Item, To avoid crows, rooks, and daws from corn in the sowing, or in the ear.

Item, To cause all the moles in a field to resort to one place, and to take them very easily.

To preserve timber from rotting.

To make glew for the joining of boards, whether green or dry, that shall hold faster than the boards themselves.

That by travelling several years for the discovery of many rare experiments, &c. amongst many admirable collections for several infirmities happening upon four easy ways for the perfect curing of the King's evil, and neither of them with the seventh child, which are so excellent and (by the blessing of God) so exceedingly successful, that I desire to impart them to such as shall have occasion thereof.

Item, An infallible experiment for the gout and scurvy, which hath perfectly cured above a hundred.

Item, For the stone and strangury, which hath saved many men's lives.

Cum multis aliis, &c.

Having many other rarities of most admirable consequence, which would grow so voluminous, that I am resolved to reserve them for an additional impression: In the mean time, I shall willingly demonstrate and impart of them, by way of exchange, or otherwise, to any that shall be desirous thereof.

General accommodations,

WHOSOEVER shall have monies to let forth upon interest, may have sufficient security to his desire, and such present and positive directions for the more secure disposing of his monies, so far transcending all manner of adventure, that the result thereof may, by many degrees, be more satisfactory, and may more advantageously extend and conduce to his content.

Whosoever shall be provided for a purchase, of what proportion soever, either of lands in the country, or houses here in the city, may have several particulars presented to his consideration, and full satisfaction to his desire.

Whosoever hath occasion to sell lands, houses upon lease, &c. or to borrow monies upon lands, houses, leases, rents, &c. may be timously supplied to his desire, from fifty pounds, to five-thousand pounds.

Whosoever shall desire to increase the talent, divine justice hath put into his hands, and will deposit monies upon present annuities, or for estates in reversion, that shall appear, to the eye of judgment, exceeding advantageous, may have satisfactory compliancy to the full accomplishment of his expectation; or whosoever will give reasonable satisfaction, for monies during life, may have considerable sums seasonably parted with, upon honest and conscionable terms.

Whosoever hath occasion for a necessary house, or shall desire to be provided with convenient lodgings, furnished, or otherwise; or shall be minded to be dieted, either wholly, or at meals, as an ordinary, of what condition or degree soever; they may have full information and satisfac tion, with as much content as may be expected or desired; or whoso over shall desire to take a convenient mansion near London; or within twenty miles thereof, or part of an house, or lodgings, with their diet or otherwise; they may have such information and intelligence, as cannot but abundantly correspond with their expectations. Or whosoever shall have an inclination to take a convenient house or farm in the country, by lease for years or lives, whereby they might continue to themselves a convenient competency for their support and livelihood; they may, in pursuance of their desires, have plenary intelligence from most parts of England or Ireland; and may further, according to their capacities, be directed and furthered to more fructiferous employments under some eminent neighbouring gentleman, that may, by vertue of their relation and recourse, happily become their landlord, &c. or whosoever shall be willing to part with such habitation or place of residence, of what proportion soever, or in what part of England or Ireland soever; by hinting their pleasures, all industry will not be wanting, at least, so much as may occasion them to be inheritors of their desires.

Whosoever shall be minded to buy any goods, that London doth afford, either for apparel or otherwise, may be furnished at the first and best hand, at equitable rates, with all clarity and serenity, and with forbearance of their monies for the present or otherwise; or shall desire to have their wants supplied with any kind of houshold-stuff, at the first or second-hand, as linnen, pewter, brass, all sorts of hangings, or other requisites appertaining to houshold affairs; they may have their choice either by parcels, as they have need; or the full furniture of an house from executors, or from such as have occasion to give up house-keeping, &c. and constant information, where, with whom, and upon what conditions they may be had. Or whosoever, shall have commodities to sell, or what vendible commodities soever, shall come from beyond the seas, or out of the country, either in great parcels, or otherwise, upon information thereof, at my lodgings; they may have divers make address unto them, and may instantly vend whatsoever they shall have remaining by them.

Whosoever shall lose any papers, books of accompt, or any other considerable thing; whereas the finder may desire restitution to the owner, by leaving notice thereof, at my lodgings, there may happen a reciprocal accommodation between them. Or, whosoever shall have goods stolen, as horses, or any other cattle, may, by describing the marks, &c. with other necessary explanatory observations, have such an expeditious course taken, by posting of bills throughout the city, the market-towns and fairs, within a considerable distance, and by other scrutinies for suspicious persons about the city, together with such other probable and imaginable expedients, effectually prosecuted and pursued, as may consequently render responsible inferences of discovery, how to recover their goods again.