122. 38. sclatte] slate.
124. Here I. R. begins his third book, relating to timber and distillations.
12. Midsummer-moon is an old phrase; it occurs in the second line of the prologue to the Plowman’s Tale, which is inserted in some editions of Chaucer, though really written by the anonymous author of the Plowman’s Crede.
33. muldes a spade-graffe depe] mould with a spade a foot deepe.
35. peruse] doo still.
39. I. R. adds—or els beeing drowned, not to prosper.
125. 4. fyue fote brod, &c.] fiue foote broad, then it would be set with three chesses or rowes one aboue another, but of what depth or breadth soeuer, it would be double sette, &c.
5. hedge] dead hedge.