[3] "Pease boyling or not boyling is one of the Farmers occult Qualities; but fresh, and next to it, well dunged Grounds are observed to produce the best Boylers, perhaps because they retain most moisture."—T.R.
[4] "By Experience Garden Quicksets are found to be the best, ... because they are all of an age."—T.R.
[5] "The common time of ending their Slaught (or Slaughter as the Warreners term it) is [Candlemas]."—T.R.
[6] "The most forward Pea is the Rogue, they are pick'd from the Hasting and Hotspur."—T.R.
[7] "Since the use of Turneps Cattel need not be hard put to it in snowy weather as formerly."—T.R.
[8] "This is more proper in Underwood than Pollards, at least more in use at present; few Pollards perish for want of it, but [Runt-wood] will."—T.R.
[9] St. 16 is not in 1577.
[10] "Prime Grass appears commonly in woody moist Grounds, on Hedge Banks, and is so called from its earliness; when Cattle have tasted this they begin to loath their dry food. It is often sprung before Candlemas."—T.R.
[11] full a hand. 1577.
[12] "This remedy still is in Practice.... The first indication of corrupt blood is from the staring Hairs on the Tail near the Rump. Some instead of Soot and Garlick put a Dock Root, or the Root of a Bears Foot, which they call a Gargat Root, others flay the Dewlaps to the very Shoulders."—T.R.