W. Folkingham, Feudigraphia. The Synopsis or Epitome of Surveying Methodized (1610)

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Date
1610
Author
Book title
Fevdigraphia. The Synopsis or Epitome of Surueying Methodized. Anatomizing the whole Corps of the Facultie; Viz. The Materiall, Mathematicall, Mechanicall and Legall Parts, Intimating all the Incidents to Fees and Possessions, and whatsoeuer may be comprized vnder their Matter, Forme, Proprietie, and Valuation. Very pertinent to be perused of all those, whom the Right, Reuenewe, Estimation, Farming, Occupation, Manurance, Subduing, Preparing and Imploying of Arable, Medow, Pasture, and all other Plots doe concerne. And no lesse remarkable for all Vnder-takers in the Plantation of Ireland or Virginia, for all Trauailers for Discoueries of forraine Countries, and for Purchasers, Exchangers, or Sellers of Land, and for euery other Interessee in the Profits or Practise deriued from the compleate SVRVEY Of Manours, Lands, Tenements, Edifices, Woods, Waters, Titles, Tenures, Euidences, &c.
Publication place
London
Publisher
Richard Moore
Transcription source
British Library C.123.d.13
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • agriculture
  • law
Summary
Single-sentence paragraphs, mainly, of abstract definitions, sometimes breaking down in to the practical, and written in hard words throughout. After K2r, the text moves into law and includes one explanation after another -- far from its subject matter -- for terms better accounted for elsewhere.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 26
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: Fictilage is the forming & transforming of the Matter in form or substance; as in making of Tile (for thack, roofe, crest, gutter, pauing) Brick, Pots, Tabaccopipes, Tonnel or Conduit-pipes, Glasse, Purslane, and other Plasmature.
STC
11123
Criticisms
Carlton, William J. "Shorthand Books." Bibliotheca Pepysiana. Part IV. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1940. 28-29. view record