Countrey contentments, in two bookes
the first, containing the whole art of riding great horses in very short time, with the breeding, breaking, dyeting and ordring of them, and of running, hunting and ambling horses, with the manner how to vse them in their trauell. Likewise in two newe treatises the arts of hunting, hawking, coursing of grey-hounds with the lawes of the leash, shooting, bowling, tennis, baloone &c. By G.M. The second intituled, The English husvvife: containing the inward and outward vertues which ought to be in a compleate woman: as her phisicke, cookery, banqueting-stuffe, distillation, perfumes, wooll, hemp, flaxe, dairies, brewing, baking, and all other things belonging to an houshold. A worke very profitable and necessary for the generall good of this kingdome.
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Author
Contributions
- Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637. - Contributor
Publication
By I[ohn] B[eale] for R. Iackson, and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleet-street Conduit, Printed at London, England
Language
English
Word Count
32,000 words, Guess
Page Count
128 pages
Physical Format
Microform
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21841664M
Alternate Titles
- English hus-wife.
- English hus-vvife.
- Discource of horsmanshippe.
Subjects
Topics
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Genres
- Early works to 1800
Series Statement
- Early English books, 1475-1640 -- 852:1.
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