[EBOOK] A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE, BY W.H.R. CURTLER (OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS), PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

'A husbandman', said Markham, 'is the master of the earth, turning barrenness into fruitfulness, whereby all commonwealths are maintained and upheld. His labour giveth liberty to all vocations, arts, and trades to follow their several functions with peace and industrie. What can we say in this world is profitable where husbandry is wanting, it being the great nerve and sinew which holdeth together all the joints of a monarchy?' And he is confirmed by Young: 'Agriculture is, beyond all doubt, the foundation of every other art, business, and profession, and it has therefore been the ideal policy of every wise and prudent people to encourage it to the utmost.' Yet of this important industry, still the greatest in England, there is no history covering the whole period.

It is to remedy this defect that this book is offered, with much diffidence, and with many thanks to Mr. C.R.L. Fletcher of Magdalen College, Oxford, for his valuable assistance in revising the proof sheets, and to the Rev. A.H. Johnson of All Souls for some very useful information.

As the agriculture of the Middle Ages has often been ably described, I have devoted the greater part of this work to the agricultural history of the subsequent period, especially the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.

W.H.R. CURTLER

[EBOOK] A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH AGRICULTURE, BY W.H.R. CURTLER (OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS), PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

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