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The Book of Husbandry

Chapter 183: FOOTNOTES:
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The work functions as a practical handbook for rural household and estate management, offering detailed instructions on ploughing, soil and crop care, animal breeding and stable routine, timber and grafting techniques, and practical market dealings. Technical procedures and tool descriptions are combined with advice on household economy, servant oversight, moral and religious conduct, and experimental observations, often expressed in vernacular verses and learned references to guide country householders toward more productive, orderly stewardship.

FOOTNOTES:

[36] Such is the general rule; but in Lowland Scotch, we have Dalziel, Menzies, pronounced as Dalyell, Menyies, i.e. with z for y in the middle of a word, where it usually has the force of gh.

[37] I shall in future drop the initials “I. R.” in these collations. It will be understood that these various readings are all from the same source.

[38] Cf. the name pod-ware, as applied to beans and peas. See Halliwell.

[39] Printed—“Vernall. When.” This cuts the sentence in half, and makes nonsense.

[40] A singular mistake; he means Aries.

[41] I.e. mortified. “Mortify, to change the outward form of a mixt body, as when quicksilver ... is dissolved in an acid menstruum”; Phillips.

[42] Sic; but we commonly find viues or vives. And in fact, Fitzherbert treats of it below, in section 91.

[43] I.e. the servant who had charge of the garners or granaries, and whose business it was to send corn to the mill, the stable, and the poultry-yard.

[44] Cellar.

[45] Ewery; where were kept ‘Napery, Basons, Ewers, sweete waters, Perfumes, Torches, Supper-lights, Prickets, sises of Waxe, and such like;’ also ‘tallow Candles, Candle-sticks, Snuffers, and such other.’


GLOSSARIAL INDEX.



The references are to the sections and lines, as numbered. Besides the usual contractions, note that v. = verb in the infinitive mood, pr. s. = present tense, third person singular, unless 1 p. or 2 p. is added. Proper names are included in this index.