Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham].

  • Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637
Date:
1615
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Credit: Countrey contentments, in two bookes: the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses ... with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them ... The second intituled The English housewife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate women: as her phisicke, cookery ... distillation, perfumes, ... brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold / [Gervase Markham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of the turn mirg of Wooll. effp inning Wooll. then to kcepcic there without any altcratiombut bccaufe you (hall be a little more certaine in the truth of your pro¬ portions : you fliall know that three pound of grcaieor oile wil fufficientlyannointor grealc ten poundsofwool? And fo according to that proportion you may oil? what quantitieyou will. . After your wool! isoi'dandannointed thus, you (hall then tumme itjwhich is you (hall pull it foorth as you did before , when you mixeiennd cardie oucr againe vpon yourStockccatds: Andthcn thofcca.'dingswhich you ■ftrike off are called tummings,which you ihalllay by till it come to fpinning. 1 here be home Houf-vviucs which oile itasthey mixit.and ftrinklecucric laircasthcylay it,and workc the oile well into it: And then raiding it vp as bc- forc!aid,pul it out and tumme it: (b that then it °oeth but onccouer the ftocke Cards, which is notamiflif.- yet the other is more certaine, though fome what more paine- Afteryour Wooll is thus mixed oiled and tummed. you fhallthcnSpinneic vpon great Wooll whecles, ac- cordingtotheorderofgoodHoule-wiucrie ,• thea&ion whereof muft be got by pra&ifr and not relation ; onelie this you (hall becarefull to draw y our rhrid according to thenaturc and goodnesofyour wooll, not according to yourparticulardelirc : fori f you dra w a fine thrid from a Wooll which is of a courfe.flap!e it will wantfiibftancc when it comes to the Walkc Mill: and either there beatc in pieces: Or not being able to bed and couer the thrids well,bcaclothof a'vericlhorcLifting. Solikewilcifyoo draw a courfe thrid from a,Wooll of afineftapfe, it will then fo much oucr thickcthat you muft either take away a great part of the fubftancc ofyour wooll in flockes; Or ds let the cloth wearc cour(c and high to thedilgractof good