The English Housewife / Gervase Markham; edited by Michael R. Best.

The English Housewife / Gervase Markham; edited by Michael R. Best.

Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases. Containing the natures, breeding, choice, vse, feeding, and curing of the diseases of all manner of cattell, as horse, oxe, cow, sheepe, goats, swine, and tame conies. Shewing further, the whole art of riding great horses, with the breaking and ordering of them, and the dieting of the running, hunting, and ambling horse, and the manner how to use them in their travaile. Also, approved rules for the cramming and fatting of all sorts of poultry and fowles [...] Together with the use and profit of bees, the making of fish-ponds, and the taking of all sorts of fish. Gathered together for the generall good and profit of this whole realme [...] differing from all former and forraine experiments, which either agreed not with our clime, or were to hard to come by, or over-costly, and to little purpose: all which herein are avoyded.

Country contentments: or, The husbandmans recreations. Contayning the wholsome experiences in which any man ought to recreate himselfe, after the toyle of more serious businesse. As namely, hunting, hawking, coursing with grey-hounds, and the lawes of the lease, shooting in longbow or crosbow, bowling, tennis, baloone. The whole art of angling, and the vse of the fighting cock. By G.M.

Hungers prevention: or, The whole art of fovvling by water and land. Containing all the secrets belonging to that art, and brought into a true forme or method, by which the most ignorant may know how to take any kind of fowle, either by land or water. Also, exceeding necessary and profitable for all such as travell by sea, and come into uninhabited places: especially, all those that have anything to doe with new plantations. By Gervase Markham.

The English housewife, containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleat woman. As her skill in Physick, Chirurgery, cookery, extraction of oyls, banqueting stuff, ordering of great feasts, preserving of all sort of wines, conceited secrets, distillations, perfums, ordering of wool, hemp, flax: making cloath and dying; the knowledge of dayries: office of malting; of oats, their excellent uses in families: of brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A work generally approved, and now the ninth time much augmented purged, and made most profitable and necessary for all men, and the general good of this nation. By G. Markham.

A way to get wealth: containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, ... IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing [sic], the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five books gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great-Brittain.

Maison rustique, or, The countrey farme· Compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault, Doctors of Physicke. And translated into English by Richard Surflet, practitioner in physicke. Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French. Albyterio in Spanish, Grilli in Italian; and other authors. And the husbandrie of France, Italie, and Spaine, reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham. The whole contents are in the page following.

The English housewife : containing the inward and outward virtues which ought to be in a complete woman as her skill in physic, cookery, banqueting-stuff, distillation, perfumes, wool, hemp, flax, dairies, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to a household / edited by Michael R. Best.

The English Housewife / Gervase Markham; edited by Michael R. Best.

[Fiue hundreth points of good husbandry vnited to as many of good huswiferie, firs deuised, and nowe lately augmented with diuerse approued lessons concerning hopps and gardening, and other needeful matters, together with an abstract before euery moneth, conteining the whole effect of the sayd moneth with a table and a preface in the beginning both necessary to be reade, for the vnderstanding of the booke. Set forth by Thomas Tusser gentelman, seruant to the honorable Lord Paget of Beudesert]

A new orchard, and garden; or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich orchard: particularly in the north, and generally for the whole kingdom of England, as in nature, reason, situation, and all probability, may and doth appear. With the country-houswifes garden for herbs of common use: their vertues, seasons, profits, ornaments, variety of knots, models for trees, and plots for the best ordering of grounds and walks. As also, the husbandry of bees, with their several uses and annoyances, all being the experience of fourty and eight yeers labour, and now the second time corrected and much enlarged, by William Lawson. Whereunto is newly added the art of propagating plants; with the true ordering of all manner of fruits, in their gathering, carrying home, and preservation.

A way to get wealth: containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use and feeding of all sorts of cattle and fowl, fit for the service of man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice of all the recreations meet for a gentleman. III. The office of a house-wife, ... IV. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... VI. The making of orchards, planting and graffing [sic], the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five books gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great-Brittain.

A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the Royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery.

The English Housewife / Gervase Markham; edited by Michael R. Best.

The compleat cook : or, the secrets of a seventeenth-century housewife / by Rebecca Price ; compiled and introduced by Madeleine Masson; original research material by Anthony Vaughan ; illustrated by Pamela Lander.

Recipes from the garden : a mixture of modern and eighteenth century recipes ... / Allesley Park Walled Garden Group.

A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the Royal household, made in divers reigns. From King Edward III. to King William and Queen Mary. Also receipts in ancient cookery.

The English Housewife / Gervase Markham; edited by Michael R. Best.

The urinal of physick. By Robert Record Doctor of physick. Whereunto is added an ingenious treatise concerning physicians, apothecaries, and chyrurgians, set forth by a Dr. in Queen Elizabeths dayes. With a translation of Papius Ahalsossa concerning apothecaries confecting their medicines; worthy perusing, and following.

A choice manuall, or Rare and select secrets in physick and chyrurgery: collected, and practised by the Right Honourable, the Countesse of Kent, late deceased. Whereto are added several experiments of thevirtues of Gascon pouder, and lapis conira yarvam, by a professor of physick. As also most exquisite waies of preserving, conserving, candying, c.

A rich storehouse or treasurie for the diseased. Wherein are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue bin long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set foorth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people that are not of abillitie to go to the phisitions, by G. W.

Every man his own doctor, compleated with an herbal: shewing, first, how every one may know his own constitution and complexion, by certain signs. Also the nature and faculties of all food; as well meats as drinks, whereby every man and woman may understand what is good or hurtful to them. Treating also of air, passions of mind, exercise of body, sleep, the use of tobacco, a new hot bath; venery, with an infallible secret to prevent the pox. Of the senses, proving six in number. his elixir proprietatis, and its use. The second part shews the full knowledg [sic] and cure of the pox, running of the reins, gout, dropsie, scurvy, consumptions and obstructions: agues. Shewing their causes and signs, danger and cure. The second edition, with additions. Viz. A treatise of melancholly and distraction, with government in cure. Also a compendious herbal, discovering the physical vertue of all herbs in this kingdom, and what planet rules each herb, and how to gather them in their planetary hours. Written by John Archer one of His Majesties physicians in ordinary.

A closet for ladies and gentlevvomen. Or, The art of preserving, conserving, and candying. With the manner how to make diverse kindes of syrupes: and all kinde of banqueting stuffes. Also divers soveraigne medicines and salues for sundry diseases.

Here begynneth a good booke of medecines called the treasure of poore men

A rich storehouse, or treasurie for the diseased. Wherein are many approued medicines for diuers and sundry diseases, which haue beene long hidden, and not come to light before this time. First set forth for the benefit and comfort of the poorer sort of people, that are not of abilitie to goe to the physicions. By G.W.