a grofs fenfe, be certainly imputed to the action of the fertilizing matter depofited by the water in the form of an unctuous fediment, in the fame manner as all lands are be. nefited or improved by the acceffion of manure, by whatever means it is depofited there.

I am, dear Sir, with great respect and esteem,

Your most obliged fervant,

Jos. WIMPEY.

On the Scab in Sheep; and fome approved Remedies recommended; from the fame.

[By a Gentleman Farmer near Norwich.]

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GENTLEMEN,

S the difeafe called the fcab in fheep is very often fatal, and occafions great lofs to the farmer, I beg leave to trouble you with a few remarks thereon; and alfo to mention fome of the best remedies yet difcovered among our theep breeders.

The difeafe is generally found moft prevalent where the lands on which theep are kept are wetteft, or in the most rainy feafons.

In the ifle of Ely fome years fince most of their flocks were dif cafed, and great numbers died. But I am of opinion, that this diforder is not always the effect either of moift air and food, or of lying on wet ground. It is doubtless often occafioned by the blood and juices of the animal being in an impure tate; to which, however, an excefs of moisture and rank food may very much contribute.

Many perfons have fuppofed the fcab to be merely a cutaneous dif eafe, and of courfe applied only external remedies to the part im

The best way therefore to treat this diforder is, on its first appear. ance, to give the sheep fomething inwardly to drive out the eruption; and then external applications are made with propriety, and generally with fuccefs.

The following recipe has been tried and found effectual in nume. rous inftances in this county and in Suffolk, where very large flocks are kept ;

Take a gallon of foft well or pond water, and divide it into two equal parts. In one part dif folve eight ounces of old hard foap, to which, when diffolved, add two ounces of fpirits of hartfhorn, and half a pound of common falt, with four ounces of roll brimflone, finely powdered and fifted. In the other part of the water put two ounces of leaf tobacco, and one ounce of hellebore root. Boil this fecond part till you have a ftrong infufion, and then ftrain it off.

Next take that part of the wa ter first mentioned, and fet it over the fire; let it boil half an hour, ftirring it all the while with a wooden ladle. In the mean time heat again the fecond part, in which the tobaccco and hellebore were infufed; and when hot mix the two parts gradually together over the fire, keeping the mixture firring all the time, which should

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be about a quarter of an hour. When quite cold, put it in a stone bottle for ufe, and fet it in a cool place.

Then take four quarts of new ale or beer, put into it twelve ounces of falt, two ounces of bay falt, and eight ounces of pounded nitre, together with twelve ounces of pounded roll brimstone. them over a gentle fire, and when the ale boils take off the fcum. When it has boiled half an hour fet it by to cool, and when cold put it in a ftone bottle for ufe.

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When you are thus far prepared, take one quart of ale, and fet it on the fire, mix into it by degrees three ounces of fulphur; when just ready to boil, take it off the fire, and let it fland to cool; and when only blood warm, give this quantity inwardly to three fheep. Repeat the dofe three times, al lowing one day's interval between each dose. This will drive out the diforder, and then the firft mixture is to be rubbed on the diftempered parts; and two days afterwards the fecond mixture, and fo on alternately for eight or ten days, till the cure is effected. Sometimes two rubbings will be fufficient.

The only objection to this mode of cure is, that it is compound,

five. This certainly has weight, becaufe, where a large number of fheep are affected, it could not cafily be practifed. On this accourt fome perfons have adopted the foilowing method of treating the difeafe, and with fuccefs alfo:

Take half an ounce of good corrofive fublimate, and diffolve it in two quarts of rain water, to which add a common gill glafs of fpirits of turpentine. When the fheep is ftruck, make a circle round the maggots with fome of the water, dropping it out of a bottle. This will prevent their getting away and hiding themselves among the wool. Then drop a little among them, and rub it about with the finger, with will prefently kill them.

But I am still of the opinion, that fomething given inwardly is neceffary to purify the blood; and perhaps nothing can be more effi cacious than the first mixture de'fcribed above. I have tried both methods, and always found, that when internal as well as external applications were used, the cure was moft radical and lafting. I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful friend and fervant,

T. BR.

longeth unto the earldom of Leicefter, and of old tyme did there unto appertayne; and it is to be underflood that it is his office, under and immediately after the king, to overfee and govern the whole kingdom, of England, and all the officers of justice within the faid kingdome, in times boeth of peace and war, in manner following:

"The manner how and when the lord high fteward ought to exercife his office by duty and the oath of fealty is fuch; whenever man or woman fhall come unto the king's court, in whatfoever court it be, and poffibly unto the king himfelf, to feek for redrefs against injury done unto them, and he or the not being able in due feafon to obteyne remedy, then

the high fteward of England ought, and is bound to receive their petį. tions and complaynts, and to keepe them until the next parliament thereafter to be holden, and to affige ento fuch complaynants, if he think fit, a day wherein they may exhibit and profecute their petitions; and in full parliament, in the prefence of the king, to re. prehend or blame that officer, or

that foe have failed in doing of justice, and thofe thereof to call to account, unto whom in fuch cafes every one throughout the kingdome is bound to anfwer, the kinge onely except. If the chan cellour of England have fayled of making original remedy and a mends, and the juftices, treafur. ers, barons, and chamberlaines of the exchequer, fteward of the king's houfe, efcheatours, coroners, fheriffes, clearkes, bayliffes, and other officers, of what place or records foever they be, in their proceffes, judgements, executions of judgements, and justice to be made to the favour of one, and lofs of the other party, for gifts, bribes, or other procurements, fhall fyle or give over at the leaft ways; if any jufticiar, when as

both parties pleading before them fhall ftand in judgement, fhall by fuch falfe procurements deferr judgment, contrary to juftice, and the laws and cuftomes of the land; if then the chancellour of England, or any other of the king's officers, in fuch cafe, fhall alleadge in parliament, and fay for their excufe, that in that cafe fuch hardness aud doubtfullness of the law and right did arife when the fame was heard and proponed before them, that neither he nor the court of chancery, or any other courts wherein he is an offi. cer, were able or know to attaine unto the fafe determination of the right, then shall he declare and open the fame ambiguity and doubt in parliament; if then it be found that the law was doubtful in that cafe, the chancellour or other officers fhall be held accufed, and then fhall the high steward of England, togeather with the conftable of England, in the prefence of the king, and other of the parliament, make choice of five and twenty persons more, more or leffe, according as the cafe fhall require, togeather with fach other cafes in the parliament rehearfed; amongst whom fhall be earles, barons, knights of the fhire, citizens, and burgeffes, who there fhall ordaine, agree upon, and establish remedye by law in all fuch cafes, for ever after to endure. And thofe laws fhall be recited, written and al lowed in full parliament, and fealed with the great feal, and delivered forth to all places of law and juftice from thenceforward to be holden for laws, and in public places where it fhall be thought expedient they fhall be proclaimed and divulged, whereas all other

common laws, and chiefly ftatute lawes, throughout the whole kingdom ought to be publickly proclaymed.

"If it fo happen that there was in fuch like cafe either common law, or ftatute law, foe that the king's fteward and others of the parliament may understand and perceive that fuch defaults and delays in proceffes and judgments do happen by fuch officers, when as the deceit and malice of fuch-officers hath openly and often before been apparent, then fhall he be removed out of his office, and fome other officer fit fhall be put in his place. If they fhall prefume against the juftices and officers, or, by excufing themfelves, fhall fay that they have not heretofore known themselves, and the courts whereby they are in fuch cafes to be deliberate and take advisement, then fhall they be admonished by the steward on the be. half of the king and parliament, to ftudy and search better the common Laws, that noe fuch ignorance nor negligence be found in them in the like cafes afterwards. If they fhall happen to offend in the like again, they then fhall be put out of their offices, and other difcreter and more diligent perfons fhall, by the king and his council, be appointed in their

fend to fuch a counsellour, for. bidding him in fuch fort to leale and counsel the king, and of fuch his evil counfel he shall make rehearfall, enjoining him to depart from the king's prefence, and longer not to abide with him to his difhonour, and the public hurt as is aforefaid; which if he fhall not doe, they fhall fend unto the king to remove him from him, and to give no more ear unto his councell, for that amongst the people he is efteemed to be an evil councellour between the king and his fubjects. If hereupon the king do not put him away, againe and of. ten fhall they fond, as well unto the king as unto him; if at the laft neither the king nor fuch councellours of his have regard unto the messages and requests made unto them, but fhall refufe to do thereafter, then, for the weale publick, it is lawfull for the fteward, conftable of England, no. blemen, and others of the communaltye of the realme, with banner in the king's name difplayed, to apprehend fuch councellour, as a common enemy to the king and the realme, to commit his body to ward until the next parliament, and in the mean time to feyze on all his goods, lands, and poffeffions, till judgment be pronounced of him by advice of the whole kingdom in parliament, as it happened unto Godwyn the Earle of Kent, in the days of king Edward the Confeffour, next predeceffour to William duke of Normandy, conquerour of England, who, for fuch evil acts and councells of his, was deprived of his earldome, which efcheated to the aforefaid

king: notwithstanding, at the king's fuite, and by the noble. men's permiffion, Godwyn came again to England, and did after forfeit as before. And as it happened likewife to Hubert de Burgh, Earle of Kent in the tyme of king Henry III. that was fon of king John, who for his evil deeds and bad councell was apprehended, and by the high fenefchall and other peers de. prived of his earldome by the allowance and confent of the whole parliament. So likewife did it befall unto Pierce of Gavelton, who in the days of king Edward the fon of king Henry, for fuch his evil acts and councells, was banished out of all the king of England's dominions, as well on this fide as beyond the feas, which Pierce afterwards by the king's means, and the permiffion of the nobility, returned to England and had of the king's guift the earle. dome of Cornwall; but was after that, for his evil deeds and councell, banished the realme again by the nobles and commons, and had his faid earledome efcheated unto the king but he returned afterwards without the noblemen's confent and leave, and did refort and affociate himself to the king, as before tyme he had done; which when the high steward, conftable, and other of the nobi lity understood, hee was by them apprehended and beheaded att Blacklow in Warwickshire, as a public enemy to the king and the realme. Soe have you as much as in the fayd old booke is to be feene touching the office of high steward *."

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