[343] Ed. 1635, Book i, p. 175.
[344] Markham, op. cit. i. 188.
[345] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 38. Plot, however, in his Natural History of Staffordshire, 1686, says hemp and flax were sown in small quantities all over the county, p. 109.
[346] New System of Agriculture (ed. 1726), p. 113. Woad is still grown 'in some districts in England' (Morton, Cyclopaedia of Agriculture, ii. 1159), but in the Agricultural Returns of 1907 apparently occupies too small an acreage to entitle it to a separate mention.
[347] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 43.
[348] Tull, in his Horseshoeing Husbandry (p. 147), speaks of the drill as if already in use.
[349] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 205.
[350] The seedlip was a long-shaped basket suspended from the sower's shoulder and was usually made of wood.
[351] Horse-girths for securing pack-saddles.
[352] Houghton, about the same time, said England contained 28 to 29 million acres, of which 12 millions lay waste (Collections, iv. II). In 1907 the Board of Agriculture returned the total area of England and Wales, excluding water, at 37,130,344 acres.