BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR. 
Tuomas TusserR, the Author of the ‘Five Hundred Points of 
Good Husbandry,” was born at Rivenhall,' near Kelvedon and 
Witham, in the County of Essex, about the year 1525. The 
exact date of his birth is uncertain, Warton? placing it in 1523, 
and Dr. Mavor in 1515, in which he is supported by the in- 
scription on the mural tablet erected to the memory of Tusser 
in the church of Manningtree, where he is stated to have 
been sixty-five years of age at the time of his death, which 
took place in 1580. 
Tusser, however, appears to have been elected to King’s 
College, Cambridge, in 1543, and as he would have become 
ineligible at nineteen, his birth cannot have taken place earlier 
than 1523, and, most probably, did not take place before 1524 
Or W525. 
It appears from the pedigree recorded by his nephew, John 
Tusser, the son of his eldest brother Clement, at the Herald’s 
Visitation of Essex in 1570, which is the only record we have 
1 The name of Tusser does not appear in the parochial registers at Rivenhall, 
which only extend back to 1634. According to Dr. Mavor, the name and race 
have long been extinct. 
2 History of English Poetry, 1840, vol. iii. p. 248. 
