Gardening hand tool
Date
9 July 1664
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol27 p419
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 317mm
width (page): 196mm
width (page): 196mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Copy of a sketch within the text illustrating a gardening tool to dig up roots with a six-foot-long handle and called a 'Fox Bill'. John Beale described this tool to be used by gentlemen 'to recreate themselves in some profitable imployment upon their own pastures'.
The original letter is at EL/B1/45/004. There is another copy at LBO/27/429.
The original letter is at EL/B1/45/004. There is another copy at LBO/27/429.
Transcription
There be Fox bills (as they call them) which Gentlemen (to recreate themselves in some profitable imployment upon their own pastures) do handle to dig up at the roots, if need requireth; thorns, briers, woodwexe, and such stubborn weeds, broom, gorst, ferne, to cut away thistles &. {IMAGE} a handle about six foot long.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Related fellows
John Beale (1608 - 1687, British) , Clergyman
Associated place