The Table of Husbandrie.
A Table of the pointes of husbandrie mentioned in this booke.
* * * Roman words in [ ] are wanting in 1577 edition; italics in [ ] are additions in the edition of 1577, in which y is substituted for ie, and accented é is unused.
The Epistle to the Lord William Paget deceased, and the occasion first of this booke.
The Epistle to the Lord Thomas Paget, second sonne, and now heire to the Lord William Paget his father.
[The Epistel] To the Reader.
[An Introduction to the booke of husbandrie.]
[A Preface to the buier of this booke. The preface.]
The commoditie
of husbandrie.The praise of husbandrie [by a [redele]].
The description of [husband &] husbandrie.
The ladder [of xxxiiij steps] to [thrift].
Good husbandlie lessons worthie to be followed of such as will thriue.
An habitation inforced, [aduisedly] better late than neuer; [made] upon these wordes, Sit downe Robin and rest thée.
[The farmers dailie diet.
A description of the properties of winds all ye times of the yere.
Of the Planets.]
Septembers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for September.]
Septembers husbandrie [with the nedeful furnyture of ye barne stable, plough, cart, yard, & field, togither with the manner of gathering hops, drying & keping them].
[A digression to husbandlie furniture.
The residue of Septembers husbandrie, agréeing with his former abstract.]
Octobers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for October.]
Octobers husbandrie.
[A digression to the vsage of diuers countries concerning tillage.
The residue of Octobers husbandrie, agréeing with his former abstract.]
Nouembers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for Nouember.]
Nouembers husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Decembers abstract.
[Other short remembrances for December.]
Decembers husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
A digression [directing] to hospitalitie.
A description of time, and the yere.
A description of life & riches.
A description of houskéeping.
A description of [the feast of the birth of Christ, commonlie called] Christmas.
A description of apt time to spend.
Against fantastical [scruplenes].
Christmas husbandlie fare.
A Christmas caroll [of the birth of Christ, vpon the tune of king Salomon].
Ianuaries abstract [and at the end thereof diuers sorts of trees and frutes to bee then set or remoued, following the order of ye alphabet or [crosserowe]].[E4]
[Other short remembrances for Ianuarie.
Of trées or fruites to be set or remooued.]
Ianuaries husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Februaries abstract.
[Other short remembrances for Februarie.]
Februaries husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Marches abstract [and at the ende therof, the names of the seedes, herbes, flowers & rootes than to be sowen or set, unles the time be otherwise noted by expresse wordes, as wel for kitchin herbes, strowing herbes & flowers, as herbes to stil & for phisick, set after the order of the alphabet or crosserowe].
[Other short remembrances for March.
Seedes and hearbes for the kitchen.
Herbes and rootes for sallets and sauce.
Herbs or rootes to boile or to butter.
Strowing herbs of all sorts.
Herbes, branches and flowers for windowes and pots.
Herbs to still in Summer.
Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Physicke not rehersed before.]
Marches husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract with the maner of setting of hops].
Aprils abstract.
Aprils husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract with a lesson for dairy maide Cisseley and of x toppings gests in hir whitmeat, better lost then found.]
[A digression to dairie matters.
A lesson for dairie maid Cisley of ten toppings gests.]
Maies abstract.
[Two other short remembrances for Maie.]
Maies husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract].
Junes abstract.
[A lesson of hopyard.]
Junes husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract, with a lesson to chuse a meete plot for hopps and howe then to be doing with the same.]
[A lesson where and when to plant good hopyard.]
Julies abstract.
Julies husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract and hay harvest].
Augusts abstract.
[Workes after haruest.]
Augusts husbandrie [agréeing with his former abstract & corne haruest].
[Corne haruest equally diuided into ten partes.]
[The conclusion of the whole booke set out in 12 verses euery word beginning with a T ye first letter of the Authors name.]
[A briefe conclusion in verse, euerie word beginning with a T.]
Mans age [divided into xij prentiships, from seuen yeares to fourescore and foure].
[A briefe description of thenclinations of mans age by the similitude of the Ape, Lion, Foxe, & the Asse.]
[Another diuision of the nature of mans age.]
A comparison betwéene good husband[rie] and [bad euill].
A comparison betwéene [woodland & Champion] countrie and Seuerall.
[The description of an enuious and naughtie neighbour.]
[A Sonet howe to set a candle afore the Deuill.]
A Sonet against a slaunderous tongue.
A Sonet [to his Lord & Master of his first vij yeres seruice vpon the Authors first seuen yeres seruice].
[The Authors A] dialogue betweene two Bachelers [batchillers], of wiuing & thriuing, by affirmation & negation [& the maryed mans iudgment thereof].
[The wedded mans iudgement taking vp the matter of wiuing and thriuing.
How ewes should be vsed that are néere lambing.
How lambes should be vsed when they are yoong.
What times are most méete for rearing of calues.
How to cure the wrigling of ye taile in a shéepe or a lambe.
Of gelding horsecolts.
A waie how to haue large bréede of hogs.
A medicine for faint cattle.
Howe to fasten loose téeth in a bullocke.
How to preuent the breeding of the bots in horses.
A medicine for the [cowlaske].[E5]
Of burieng dead cattle.
A waie how to preserue bées.
What is to be done with measeled hogs.
What times are most méete for letting of horses blood.]
The Table of Huswiferie you shall finde at the ende of the booke.
FINIS.
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