CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

ERRATA.

The aucthors prologue.

The table.

The Book of Husbandry

NOTES.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

There were many quite different printings of this Book of Husbandry. As the editor of this printing, Rev. Walter Skeat, notes in his Introduction: “The present volume contains a careful reprint of Berthelet’s edition of 1534” collated throughout “with the curious edition of 1598” that was authored by “I. R.”—his actual name is unknown.

This “careful reprint” retains all the spelling variations and inconsistencies of those original editions, and so does this etext. The Notes and Sidenotes produced by Skeat are of course in modern (1882) English. He has inserted some corrections to the reprinted text; these are shown in [brackets]. Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors in his Notes and Sidenotes have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Some minor changes are listed at the end of the book.

Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of each major section of the book.

The line numbering on each section of the reprinted 1534 text has been retained and is shown as a number (4, 8, 12 etc) on the left side of the etext. Original line-breaks in the 1534 text have not been retained.

>The line numbering on each section of the reprinted 1534 text has been retained and is shown as a number (4, 8, 12 etc) on the right side of the etext. Original line-breaks in the 1534 text have not been retained.

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.