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    Sir William Marshall. There are several monuments of the Marshall family, who long resided in the neighbourhood, the last being William Marshall, the eminent writer upon agricultural subjects ; he built the house now standing upon the site of " Brus Hall," commonly called Beck Isle, intending it for a School of Agriculture, for which its peculiar style would have been well fitted
    
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    William Marshall, the agricultural expert and writer to whom we owe the
    establishment of the Board of Agriculture was baptised at Sinnington on
    28th July 1745. He was in his own words "born a farmer" and used to say
    that he could trace his blood through the veins of agriculturists for
    upwards of four hundred years. After fourteen years in the West Indies, he
    undertook, at the age of twenty-nine, the management of a farm near
    Croydon in Surrey. It was there, in 1778, that he wrote his first book. He
    showed the manuscript to Dr Johnson who objected to certain passages
    sanctioning work on Sundays in harvest time, so Marshall omitted them. His
    greatest work was "A General Survey, from personal experience, observation
    and enquiry, of the Rural Economy of England."
    
    The country was divided into six agricultural divisions, the northern one
    being represented by Yorkshire in two volumes. In the first of these, the
    preface is dated from Pickering, December 21st, 1787, and the second
    chapter is devoted to an exceedingly interesting account of the broad
    valley to which Marshall gives the title "The Vale of Pickering." When he
    died in 1818 he was raising a building at Pickering for a College of
    Agriculture on the lines he had laid down in a book published in 1799.
    
    His proposal for the establishment of a "Board of Agriculture, or more
    generally of Rural Affairs" was carried out by Parliament in 1793, and so
    valuable were his books considered that in 1803 most of them were
    translated into French and published in Paris under the title of "La
    Maison rustique anglaise." The inscription on Marshall's monument in the
    north aisle of Pickering church which states that "he was indefatigable in
    the study of rural economy" and that "he was an excellent mechanic, had a
    considerable knowledge of most branches of science, particularly of
    philology, botany and chemistry" is not an over statement of his merits.
    
    William
    Marshall, the agricultural writer (mentioned a few pages further on),
    hunted with the Sinnington pack for many years, and Jack Parker, huntsman
    of last century, was a very notable character whose witty anecdotes are
    still remembered. The silver-mounted horn illustrated here bearing the
    inscription "Sinnington Hunt 1750" is preserved at Pickering. Until about
    twenty-five years ago the pack was "trencher fed," the hounds being
    scattered about in twos and threes at the various farms and houses in the
    neighbourhood. The kennels are now at Kirby Moorside.
    
    
    Marshall, William Minutes, experiments, observations, and general remarks on agriculture, in the southern counties
    Marshall, William. Minutes, experiments, observations, and general remarks, on agriculture, in thesouthern counties; a new edition. To which is prefixed a sketch of the Vale of London, and an outline of its rural economy: now first published. London: printed for G. Nicol; G. G. and J. Robinson; and J. Debrett, 1799. xxiii(1), 414; xi(1), 387(5) p. + two double-page plans, three double-page plates, a folding table, and a leaf of bookseller's advertisements at the end of Vol. I. Two vols., 8vo, contemporary tree calf, gilt, spines gilt (rubbed, some wear to spines and corners). First edition thus; a substantially reworked version of two titles published in 1778 and 1779, together with a new section of the Vale of London. William Marshall was one of the most important agricultural writers of the late 18th and early 19th century, but he remained something of an outsider, both in his own mind and in the view of his contemporaries. In the early 1790's he suggested the formation of a Department of Rural Affairs, and a national survey of farming; both ideas were appropriated by Sir John Sinclair, who was instrumental in the establishment of the Board of Agriculture in 1793, and in the vast project of county reports which quickly followed. Marshall, however, was only marginally involved in these efforts, and his comments upon them inevitably show a certain amount of resentment. Later critics tend to find Marshall's writings less appealing than those of Arthur Young from a purely literary point of view, but superior in many ways with regard to careful observation and practical advice. Complete with two double-page farm plans, three double-page plates of agricultural implements, and a folding table; in this set, four leaves of preliminaries from the first volume are duplicated in the last signature of Vol. II (where they were originally imposed). Fussell II, p. 118; Perkins 1141.
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       Marshall, William A review of the reports to the Board of Agriculture
    Marshall, William. A review of the reports to the Board of Agriculture; from the northern department of England: comprising Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Yorkshire; and the mountainous parts of Derbyshire, &c. York: printed by Thomas Wilson & Son; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme (London), 1808. xlvii(1), 536 pp. + a double-page map, and a16-page bookseller's catalogue at the end (dated June 1, 1808). 8vo, original light blue boards, recent tan paper backstrip and label (some wear to corners). First edition. The first in a series of five volumes, published over a period of ten years, in which Marshall analyzes, with great reservations, the survey of British agriculture carried out by the Board of Agriculture. Marshall said of these reports that, "seeing the magnitude of their bulk and the comparative smallness of the useful matter they contain, [they] may well be deemed a heavy tax o the time, if not the purse, of the agricultural public." Faint waterstains in the lower gotters, some light browning, but a very good copy, entirely uncut. Fussell II, p. 119; Perkins 1144.
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    William Marshall (1745-1818), who began by trading in the West Indies, afterwards farmed in Surrey, and then became agent in Norfolk to Sir Harbord Harbord. It was Marshall who suggested the creation of a Board of Rural Affairs, and the preparation of Surveys and Minutes. Though he never held an official position, it was from his own choice, for he preferred to publish his own Minutes and Surveys rather than to write them for the Board. He was interested in philology as well as in agriculture; he published a vocabulary of the Yorkshire dialect and he was a friend of Johnson, whom he rather scandalised by condoning Sunday labour in agriculture under special circumstances.