Xvi Biographical Sketch of the Author. 
where was formerly, according to Stow,’ a monument to his 
memory, inscribed as follows: 
‘‘ Here Thomas Tusser, clad in earth doth lie, 
That sometime made the Poyntes of Husbandrie ; 
By him then learne thou maist, here learne we must, 
When all is done we sleepe and turne to dust, 
And yet through Christ to heaven we hope to go, 
Who reades his bookes, shall find his faith was so.” 
This inscription is perfectly in character with the man, and was 
probably written by Tusser himself. 
A mural tablet to his memory has been erected in Manningtree 
Church in Essex, with the following inscription: ‘‘ Sacred to the 
memory of Thomas Tusser, Gent., born at Rivenhall, in Essex, 
and occupier of Braham Hall? near this town, in the reign of King 
Edward the Sixth, where he wrote his celebrated poetical treatise, 
entitled, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, etc. His 
writings show that he possessed a truly Christian spirit, and his 
excellent maxims and observations on rural affairs evince that he 
was far in advance of the age in which he lived. He died in 
London in 1580, at the age of 65, and was interred in the parish 
church of St. Mildred in the Poultry, where the following epitaph, 
said to have been written by himself, recorded his memory;” then 
follows a copy of the epitaph already given. 
1 Survey of London, ed. 1618, p. 474. The church of St. Mildred was destroyed 
in the Great Fire. 
2 Braham Hall was in 1460 the residence of Sir John Braham, and is about a 
mile and a half from Manningtree, and in the parish of Brantham, where Tusser 
first introduced the culture of barley ; 
“‘In Brantham where rye but no barley did grow, 
Good barley I had, as a many did know. 
Five seam of an acre, I truly was paid, 
For thirty load muck of each acre so laid.” —Chapt. 19, st. 9. 
The field where barley first grew at Brantham is still pointed out by tradition. 
