To Mr. Secretary Bennet
Madrid, Monday, 14th of November, 1664, English style.
“Inclosed with this, I send you a print of that new invention here for ploughing, which you did lately command me to enquire out.”1—Ibid. p. 321.
Notes
1 Mr. Bennet, in a letter to Sir Richard Fanshawe, dated 29th of September, 1664, observed, “Sir George Downing tells me of a new invention of a plough in Spain. I beseech your Excellency to enquire after it. He saith an Italian hath made it, and that it is not only received in Spain, but sent into the Indies also, for the good of their land.”—Ibid. p. 279.