A way 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, choyce, 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, chyrurgery, ... brewing, baking, and the profit of oates. 4. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equall with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine, and computation of men, and cattels labours, &c. 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 way 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, choyce, 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, chyrurgery, ... brewing, baking, and the profit of oates. 4. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds, making them equall with the most fruitfull: with the preservation of swine, and computation of men, and cattels labours, &c. 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 English hous-wife
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Imprint
London: printed for E. Brewster, and George Sawbridge, and are to be sould at the signe of the Bible upon Ludgate Hill neere Fleet-Bridge, 1653.
Publication year
1653-1653
ESTC No.
R32526
Grub Street ID
115233
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).

"Cheape and good husbandry", "The English hous-wife", "The inrichment of the weald" (first part only) identified as the separately published Wing M612, M630, M638 on UMI microfilm set "Early English books, 1641-1700", reel 1530; "A new orchard" identified as the separately published Wing L731 on reel 1209.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M676