Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum: or, a dictionary of all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading, and merchandizing / [John Worlidge].

  • Worlidge, John, active 1669-1698
Date:
1717
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Credit: Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum: or, a dictionary of all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading, and merchandizing / [John Worlidge]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    J Husbandry has been much in vogue in Eng¬ land of late Times 5 and the Art and Indnflry of Man having found out Improvements fuitable to the great Variety of Lands, and different Soils 5 no Pains have been [pared in difcovering and ranging them under proper Heads, as well as the 1 raps and Engines for deflruBive Vermin, ols and Jnftruments ufed in Husbandry, the Branches of which are here comprehend- We prefume, there can be nothing of any Mo- ment over-looked, , relating to Horfes, whether as to their Breeding, Choice, Management, Age, Difeafes , , the Receipts for which have the Approbation of fuch as may juflly be accounted the mofl competent Judges : 'Ion have alfo the fever a! parts that make up the Ac¬ coutrements of an Horfe, and we have not on¬ ly been particular in what relates to this Ani¬ mal , but even to the Management of all other Beafls of common ufe to Mankind, viz. Bulls, Oxen, Cows, Sheeps Swine, &C. the refpe&ive Heads of which we cannot pretend to rehearfe in this place. Profit and Pleafure ufually go together, but that we might carry on the Defign as far as we could towards the Compleating of it, we have made a nar¬ row Search into thoje Parts that are purely pleafu- rable : We have endeavoured to take in all the Terms that belong to Hunting*, Hawking, FiSh ing, Fowling, Ferreting, &c. defcrihed the feveral Creatures made ufe of and that are the OV with T feveral ed.