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for all persons, London 1532. 8vo. Editions of it also appear-' 

 ed in 1534, 1546, 1548, (by Thomas Marsh,) 1550 (by John 

 Awdeley,) and 15G-2,aHin Bvo. IMany oHhm- editions appeared 

 ■wiliiout dates. There was a reprint of this and the following 

 in 1707, in 8vo. with a Treatise of Xenophon's. 



2. Surveying; and book of niisl)andry. London. 1547- 

 Bvo. Again in 15G2, 8vo. and in 1598, 4to. 



For the above dates of Editions, I am chiefly indebted to 

 Dr. Watts's Bibliotheca Britannira. Tiiero are some difi'or-^ 

 erences of opinion respecting the tirst appearaiire of the works 

 but after a careful survey oilhe various authorities I think the 

 above will be found correct. Johnson's Typographia has 

 been of much use to me on this subject. 



THOMAS TUSSER, was a writer of Poetry on Agricultu- 

 ral affairs. He was born at Rivenhall, a village on the high 

 road between the towns of Withani and Kelvedon, in Essex, 

 about the year 1515, of a family afterwards allied by marriage 

 to the higher ranks of Society. He was, against his inclination, 

 educated for a chorister, and became one at a very early age, 

 at the Collegiate Chapel of Wallingford. His voice was fine 

 and he was pressed, as the despotic custom then permitted, 

 for the choir of St, Paul's Calliedial. From thence he pro- 

 ceeded to Eton and became a student there under Udall, about 

 1534, whose severity of discipline he has recorded. He then 

 proceeded to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, but leaving it on a- 

 counl of ill-heaUh, was dissuaded from returning by William 

 Lord Paget, who kept him about the Court, jjrobably as a ciio- 

 rister, as one ol his retainers for ten years, but which he then 

 left without any iniproveinenl in his fortune. He retired to 

 Katwade, (Catiwade) in Suffolk, and commenced farmer. It 

 was here he composed his work on Husbandry. The ill-state 

 of his AVife's health induced him after some years to leave his 

 farm and live at Ipswich where she died. He then married a 

 second time to a Miss Moon, and settled at East Dereham, 

 but the temper of his youthful wife, and the harsiiness of his 

 Landlord, again induced him to move to Norwich, where under 

 the patronage of Dean Salisbury he appears once more to have 

 become a chorister. Ill- health induced him a^ain to re- 

 move, and he took a farm, the Glebe land, at F.iirstead, in 

 Essex, near his native village. Fearing the death of the Cler- 

 gyman he moved to London, but liast(Mied tluiice in 1574 to 

 Trinity College, Cambrid;;e, that he might bo beyi'iul liie iii- 

 fluince of the plague. He however returned to ihc Mi^lropo- 



