292 Notes and Illustrations. 
57. 3. “The two S. Maries daies,” ze. July 22nd, St. Mary Magda- 
lene’s Day, and August 15th, the feast of the Assumption of the 
Virgin Mary—M. Mr. Skeat suggests that the days meant are 
August 15th and September 8th, the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. 
57. 5. Mustard-seed is very apt to shed, and therefore should be 
gathered before it becomes too ripe. After dressing it is to be 
laid in a soller or garret. ‘‘ Soller, a lofte, garnier.”—Palsgrave. 
‘“ Garytte, hay solere.”—Prompt. Parv. 
57. 8. Though all the editions which I have seen read as 
printed in the text, it is evident that Tusser meant exactly the 
opposite, viz. : 
“« By day will deceiue thee, etc. ' 
By great will dispatch, etc.” 
Men who take work by the great, that is, by the job or contract, 
are, as experience tells us, naturally anxious to get the work done as 
soon as possible, while those who are engaged by the day as natu- 
rally try to spin out the work as long as they can. According to 
Carr’s Craven Glossary, a Day-work is three roods of land. ‘‘ Four 
‘perches make a day-worke ; ten daysworks make a roode or quarter.” 
(Twysden MS. quoted by Halliwell.) The latter agrees with 
Norden’s statement: ‘‘ You must know (says he), that there goe 
160 perches to one acre; 80 perches to halfe an acre; 40 perches 
to one roode, which is + of an acre; ten dazes worke to a roode, 
foure perches to a daies worke ; 16 foote and a halfe to a perche.” 
(Survetor’s Dialogue, 1610.) In Cowel’s Lnterpreter we read “ Day- 
werc of Land, as much arable ground as could be ploughed up in 
one day’s work, or one journey, as the farmers still call it.” 
57. 9. ‘‘ Harvest lord,” the principal reaper who goes first and 
regulates the movements of the rest; Harvest-Lady, the second reaper 
in the row, called in Cambridgeshire the Harvest-Queen. ‘The rate 
at which the Harvest-lord reaped of course regulated that of the 
others, and therefore Tusser recommends that he should have a 
penny or two extra in order to encourage him to have an eye to 
the loiterers, and to keep all up to the mark. Cf.: 
‘“‘ At heighe pryme Peres lete the plowe stonde, 
To ouersen hem hymself, and who-so best wrou3te 
He shulde be huyred therafter whan heruest tyme come.” 
Piers Plowman, ed. Skeat, E. E. Text Soc. B Text, Passus vi. 114. 
The following particulars as to the farmer’s expenses at harvest 
time are quoted by Mr. Skeat in his notes to Piers Plowman, C. 
Text, Passus ix. 104, from Sir J. Cullum’s Hist. of Hawsted, Suffolk, 
2nd ed.: ‘The outgoings [in harvest] were called the costs of 
autumn, and are thus stated. In 1388, [we find] the expences of a 
ploughman, head reaper, baker, cook, brewer, deye, 2444 reapers 
(sc) hired for 1 day; 30 bedrepes (days of work performed in 
harvest-time by the customary tenants, at the dzddzmg of their lord), 
the men [being] fed, according to custom, with bread and herring ; 
