An olde thrift nevvly reuiued VVherein is declared the manner of planting, preserving, and husbanding yong trees of diuers kindes for timber and fuell. And of sowing acornes, chesnuts, beech-mast, the seedes of elmes, ashen-keyes, &c. With the commodities and discommodities of inclosing decayed forrests, commons, and waste grounds. And also the vse of a small portable instrument for measuring of board, and the solid content and height of any tree standing. Discoursed in a dialogue betweene a surueyour, woodward, gentleman, and a farmer. Diuided into foure parts, by R.C.

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R.C. = Rooke Churche; sometimes also attributed to Robert Chambers and to R. Churton. Printer's name from STC. With two final contents leaves. B2 and D3 are cancels in most copies; D3r line 21 reads ".. odious to Farmers." Variant 1: cancellandum D3 reads "odious to Farmers as sharking Catch-poles ..". Variant 2: with an additional leaf signed "*" after the title page, containing a commendatory epistle to the reader initialled: A.D. Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.