tailieunhanh - THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

The seventeenth century is distinguished by a number of agricultural writers whose works, as they afford the best account of the farming of the time, we may be pardoned for freely quoting. The best known of them were, Sir John Norden, Gervase Markham, Sir Richard Weston, Blythe, Hartlib, Sir Hugh Plat, John Evelyn, John Worlidge, and Houghton. Sir John Norden printed his Surveyor's Dialogue in 1608, which is in the form of a conversation between a farmer and a surveyor, the former at the outset telling the latter that men of his profession were then very unpopular because 'you pry. | THE GREAT AGRICULTURAL WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY The seventeenth century is distinguished by a number of agricultural writers whose works as they afford the best account of the farming of the time we may be pardoned for freely quoting. The best known of them were Sir John Norden Gervase Markham Sir Richard Weston Blythe Hartlib Sir Hugh Plat John Evelyn John Worlidge and Houghton. Sir John Norden printed his Surveyor s Dialogue in 1608 which is in the form of a conversation between a farmer and a surveyor the former at the outset telling the latter that men of his profession were then very unpopular because you pry into men s titles and estates and oftentimes you are the cause that men lose their land and customs are altered broken and sometimes perverted by your means. And above all you look into the values of men s lands wherefore the lords of manors do reckon their tenants to a higher rent and therefore not only I but many poore tenants have good cause to speak against the profession . 286 The surveyor attributes the increase in prices to farmers outbidding one another for farms for the rents of farms and prices grow together a statement which seems to have been quite true and disposes of the assertion that the landlords raised the rents unfairly for they were quite entitled to what rent they could get in the open market the farmers being presumably wise enough not to offer rents which would preclude a profit. He further blames the farmer of his day for being discontented with his lot in former times farmers and their wives were content with mean dyet and base attire and held their children to some austere government without haunting alehouses taverns dice and cards now the husbandman will be equal to the yeoman the yeoman to the gentleman the gentleman to the squire and there is at this day thirty times as much vainely spent in a family of like multitude and quality as was in former ages a complaint that has been common in all ages. Contrary to what is

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