Authority Cited: Mortimer
Author name and dates: John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)
BKG Bio-tweet: Successful merchant, landowner; “Art of Husbandry” improved agricultural and animal raising practices
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 439 Mortimer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 484 Mortimer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Mortimer cites were identified as added in the 1773. Dict. The edition of the text below used by SJ has not been determined. The 1st edition was 1707 (the acrospire quote was not found in the 1707 edition). All sampled headwords traced to a text were found in the title below.]
Author name and dates: John Mortimer (c.1656-1736)
BKG Bio-tweet: Successful merchant, landowner; “Art of Husbandry” improved agricultural and animal raising practices
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: about 439 Mortimer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, about 484 Mortimer cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. No Mortimer cites were identified as added in the 1773. Dict. The edition of the text below used by SJ has not been determined. The 1st edition was 1707 (the acrospire quote was not found in the 1707 edition). All sampled headwords traced to a text were found in the title below.]
- The whole art of husbandry: or, The way of managing and improving of land. Being a full collection of what hath been writ, either by ancient or modern authors: with many additions of new experiments and improvements not treated of by others. As also an account of the particular sorts of husbandry used in several counties; with proposals for its farther improvement. To which is added, The country-man's kalendar, what he is to do every month in the year. By J. Mortimer, Esq; F.R.S., the Fifth Edition, with Additions (in two volumes), 1721, London: printed by J.B. for R. Robinson at the Golden Lion, and G. Mortlock at the Phoenix, in St. Paul's Church-yard; acrospire (v.1 p.341); acrospired; aftercost; aftercrop; . . . bag (v.1 p.198); barberry; bark-bared; . . . campestral (v.2 p.26); cane (v.1 p.279); cannipers; . . . dam (2); dampness (v.2 p.141); . . . ear (v.2 p.63); edder (v.2 p.9); . . . keep (v.1 p.350); kernel (v.2 p.165) . . . lady's-smock (v.2 p.238, 1755 Dict. only); lath (2, v.1 pp.169, 383); . . . witheredness (v.1 p.167); wolfsbane (v.2 p.245); wood (v.2 p.66); yean (v.1 p.240).