Sentence:  wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like <WSD>curiosity</WSD>, but the most part farre much worse workmanship ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building. (16th-19th c.)