English Dictionary

[…]in 1593, Sir Hugh Platt, of Lincolne’s Inne, Gentleman, produced his “Dyvers Soyles for manuring Pasture and Arable Land;” in 1594, his “Jewel-house of Art and Nature, containing divers rare and profitable Instructions, together with sundry new Experiments in the Art of Husbandry, distillation, and moulding;” and “Divers Chimicall conclusions;” a book which by Martin is thought to have been really the work of several hands, and to have been edited merely by Platt, who in his preface extols his “Conceyted book of Gardening, wherein he has set downe sundrie observations, which neither M. Tusser, though he have written shapelily, nor Master Hill though he have written painfully, nor Master Barnabe Googe though he have written soundlye, applying himself in his whole discourse both to our Soyle and Clymate, hath as yet discovered to the world.”