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JOUENAL OF HORTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ May 28, 1874. 



" Starching their cottons for Sunday, 



Churning the snowy cream, 

 HiuBing the pails and strainer 



Down in the running stream ; 

 Feeding the geese and poultry, 



MaMng the puddiugs and pies. 

 Jogging the little une's cradle, 



Driving away the flies." 



■\Yhilst residing at Ipswich Tnsser married a Norfolk woman. 

 Amy Moon. Slie was seemingly much his junior, at all events 

 she survived him. He plays upon her name by saying that 

 she would always shine 



" And never change, a thing most Btnuige." 



Sha was young, "a wife in youth;" expenses increased. 

 " The child at nurse, to rob the purse," bo he again betook to 



farming. His wife seems to have objected to leaving her 

 native county. 



" For Norfolk wiles, so full of guiles. 

 Have caught my toe, by wiving so. 

 That out of thee, I see for me. 

 No way to creep." 



He became the tenant of West Dereham Abbey about the 

 year 1564. The Abbey had but recently been suppressed, and 

 its last Abbot was Uving in Tusser's youth time, dying in 1548. 



The Abbey lauds, manors, &c., were granted to Thomas 

 Derham, Esq., of Crimplesham, in 32 Henry VUI., and he 

 died possessed of them in 1554, but they remained to his de- 

 scendants, but disputes arose and Tusser fled from the tenancy. 



" Then left I all, because such brawl, 



I hst not bide." "• 



WEST DEREHAM CHURCH. 



There seems to have been some temptation thus readily to 

 leave a farm, which he admits was such " as heart could wish ;" 

 and the tempter was Sir Biehard Southwell. He is described 

 as a great favourite of Henry VIII. ; was one of the visitors 

 appointed by him of the monasteries in Norfolk on their sup- 

 pression ; was of the privy council to that king, Edward VI., 

 and Queen Mary ; was master of the ordnance and armoury, 

 and one of the executors to Henry VIII. ; he was also high 

 steward of the Duchy of Lancaster. Ho possessed thirty-two 

 manors in Norfolk, and profited, as one might expect, from the 

 dissolution of the monasteries. It is not improbable that he 

 offered a stewardship to Tusser ; but whatever the temptation 

 was, Tusser did not benefit by it, for Sir Eich.ird died at the 

 time, and is thus deplored : — 



" O. Southwell ! what, meanst thou by that. 

 Thou worthy wight, thnu famous knight, 

 3o me to crave, and to thy grave, 

 Go by-and-by ? " 



Sir Eichard had no legitimate son, and his seven executors 

 seem to have not carried out his intentions for Tusser, so he 

 avoided " the ravens " and sought a " safer port." That port 

 was Norwich. 



The reasons why Sir Eichard Southwell came " to crave " for 

 Tusaer was probably because he was patronised and commended 

 by Thomas Lord Paget, who was married to Sir llichard's great- 

 niece, bearing the very unusual name of Nazareth, and who 



benefited by some of his property ; for in 1572 Lord Paget 

 nominated one John Poley to the rectory of Wood Bising, 

 which had belonged to Sir Eichard. 



We hoped to pubhsh a view of Tusser's residence at West 

 Dereham, but the rector of the parish, the Eev. J. H. Clarke, 

 writes to us that " there is nothing in the old abbey remain- 

 ing which could be associated with his memory, as a fragment 

 of the comparatively modern mansion, turned into a shepherd's 

 cottage and laundry, is all which now presents itself without 

 the old moated inclosure. The church, which is about a mile 

 from the site of the Abbey, stUl presents very nearly the same 

 aspect it would have in Tusser's time." Of that church, de- 

 dicated to St. Andrew, we publish a view from a photograjih 

 taken by the Eev. Canon Beechey, and for which we are 

 further indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Clarke. 



THE HOLLYHOCK DISEASE. 



(PUCCINIA MALVACEAEUM, Mont.) 



It is to be sincerely hoped that the fitngus which causes the 

 Hollyhock disease will confine itself to the tribe Malvca) of the 

 natural order Malvacere, and that it will not extend itself to 

 the other tribes of this natural order, so many members of 

 which are cultivated for ornament in this country. If we form 

 a judgment of the fungus from the habits of other species of 



