Nor is it held any disgrace for Men of the greatest Quality to do any work either at home or in the Field, if it be for themselves; but to work for hire with them is reckoned for a great shame: and very few are here to be found that will work so; But he that goes under the Notion of a Gentleman may dispence with all works, except carrying, that he must get a man to do when there is occasion.

For carrying is accounted the most Slave-like work of all.
[How they geld their Cattel.] Under their Husbandry, it may not be amiss to relate how they geld their Cattel.

They let them be two or three years old before they go about this work; then casting them and tying their Legs together; they bruise their Cods with two sticks tied together at one end, nipping them with the other, and beating them with Mallets all to pieces.

Then they rub over their Cods with fresh Butter and Soot, and so turn them loose, but not suffer them to lye down all that day.

By this way they are secured from breeding Maggots.