Xiv Biographical Sketch of the Author. 
a musician, and of whom he speaks in terms of praise and affec- 
tion. In this manner the next ten years were passed, and during 
this time his parents died. At the end of this period, either from 
disgust at the vices of the Court, or finding, to use his own words, 
“the Court began to frown,” he retired into the country, married,’ 
and settled down as a farmer at Cattiwade,” a hamlet in the parish 
of Brantham, in Suffolk, and on the borders of Essex, where he 
composed his ‘‘ Hundredth Good Pointes of Husbandrie,” the first 
edition of which appeared in 1557. 
In consequence of his wife’s ill-health, he removed to Ipswich, 
‘a town of price, like Paradise.” Here his wife died, and he 
married Amy, daughter of Edmond Moon, and settled down at 
West Dereham in Norfolk. On leaving this town, on account of 
the litigious character of his neighbours, he became, probably 
Paget House, then Leicester House, and lastly Essex House. Two years after- 
wards he was Ambassador to the Emperor Charles V., and in the same year was 
called by writ to Parliament by the title of Lord Paget of Beaudesert, Com. Salop., 
and soon after sent to treat for peace with France. On the fall of the Duke of 
Somerset, he was charged with designing the murder of several noblemen at Paget 
House, and in consequence was sent to the Tower, deprived of his honours and 
offices, and fined £6000, one-third of which was remitted. On the death of 
Edward VI. he joined the Earl of Arundel, the chief champion of Queen Mary, and 
gained her favour by his activity. Soon after her marriage with Philip, he was 
sent Ambassador to the Emperor at Brussels, to consult Cardinal Pole respecting 
the restoration of Popery. In this reign he was made Lord Privy Seal. Lord 
Paget died very aged, in 1563, and was buried at Drayton in Middlesex. He 
left issue by Anne, daughter of — Prestin, Esq., Com. Lanc., three sons and 
five daughters. His eldest son Henry succeeded him in the title; but dying 
in 1568, the peerage descended to his next brother, Thomas, whom Tusser claims 
also for a patron. Thomas being zealously affected to Popery, and implicated 
in the plots in favour of Mary Queen of Scots, fled and was attainted 1587, 
and died three years after at Brussels, leaving one son, Thomas, who succeeded 
him. 
1 Of the name and family of his first wife we are entirely ignorant. 
2 In later editions printed Ratwade, and transferred to Sussex, a mistake into 
which Warton has fallen. 
