A vvay to get vvealth: containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. 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 and dieting horses, either for war or pleasure. 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, in physick, chyryrgery, extraction of oyles, banquets, cookery, ... 4. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding, & enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equall with the most fruitfull: ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great Brittaine.

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  • A vvay to get vvealth: containing six principall vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife, may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. 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 and dieting horses, either for war or pleasure. 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, in physick, chyryrgery, extraction of oyles, banquets, cookery, ... 4. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding, & enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equall with the most fruitfull: ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great Brittaine.
  • Way to get wealth
  • Cheape and good husbandry.
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Imprint
London: printed by Thomas Harper, for John Harrison, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls-Church Yard, 1653.
Publication year
1653-1653
ESTC No.
R180369
Grub Street ID
71442
Description
[28], 133, 136-188, [2], 92, [14], 68, 61-188, [4] 20, [8], 126, [10], 56, [2], 69-112 p. : ill. ; 4⁰
Note
Comprised of reissues: "Cheape and good husbandry", 8th ed., 1653 (Wing M612); "Country contentments", 7th ed., 1654 (Wing M621); "The English hous-wife", 5th ed., 1653 (Wing M630); "The inrichment of the weald of Kent", 1653, (Wing M638); "Markhams farewell to husbandry" (part of Wing M638); and "A new orchard, and garden; ... by William Lawson", 1653 (Wing L731); "A way to get wealth", 8th edition (Wing M676) title page only.