TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

There were many quite different printings of this Book ofHusbandry. As the editor of this printing, Rev. Walter Skeat, notesin his Introduction: “The present volume contains a careful reprintof Berthelet’s edition of 1534” collated throughout “with thecurious edition of 1598” that was authored by “I. R.”—his actualname is unknown.

This “careful reprint” retains all the spelling variations andinconsistencies 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 errorsin his Notes and Sidenotes have been corrected after careful comparison withother occurrences within the text and consultation of externalsources.

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

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

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

>The line numbering on each section of the reprinted 1534 text has beenretained 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 transcriberand is placed in the public domain.