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sums of debt, whose actions be triable and determinable in Court 
Barons; whereby proceed many suits, more of evil will and malice 
than of the truth of the thing, to the manifold vexation and no little 
damage of the inhabitants of the said city and counties, and also to 
the perpetual destruction of all the Courts Baron in the said 
counties, unless convenient remedy be provided in this behalf; the 
foresaid Lord the King considering the premises, by the advice, 
assent and authority aforesaid, hath ordained and established, that 
at all times from henceforth there shall be but six common attor- 
nies in the said County of Norfolk, and six common attornies in 
the said County of Suffolk, and two common attornies in the said 
City of Norwich, to be attornies in the Courts of Record ; and that 
all the said fourteen attornies shall be elected and admitted by the 
two Chief Justices of our Lord the King for the time being, of the 
most sufficient and best instructed, by their discretions.” East 
Anglians were frequently called ‘“ Barrators,” that is, incitors to 
lawsuits (O.Fr. dareter, to deceive, cheat). 
113. 21. ‘‘ Diram sell.” West Dereham Abbey, near Downham, 
Norfolk, founded by Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury, for 
Preemonstratensian canons. 
113. 27. Faiersted, a parish about four miles from Witham, and 
near our author’s birthplace. 
113. 31. The plague, to which Tusser evidently alludes, according 
to Maitland, raged in London in 1574.and 1575. It must have been 
subsequent to 1573, as the edition of that date does not contain 
this or the following stanza. 
113. 32. This and the preceding stanzas were first introduced in 
the edition of 1580. 
113. 33. Cf. ‘The rank is but the guinea stamp, 
A man’s a man for a’ that.”—Burns. 
113. 35. ““Cocking Dads.” | Cf.:ch: 95; stanzas, \psa86e 
113. 36. “Of hir or him.” See note on ch. 62, stanza 6. 
113. 37. “ L’>homme propose, Dieu dispose.” 
113. 31. “Or for to iet,” etc. ‘The Normane guise was, to 
walke and jef up and downe the streetes, with great traines of idle 
serving men following them.”—Lambarde’s Peramb. of Kent, Re- 
print of 1826, p. 320. “ %e/timg along with a giant-like gate.” — 
Tom Tel-Troth’s Message, New Shak. Soc. ed. Furnivall, p. 125. 
‘“* Rogue, why winkest thou ? Jenny, why je/fes¢ thou ?”—R. Holme, 
Names of Slates, Bk. iii. ch. v. p. 265. ‘‘ fem, That no scholler be 
out of his college in the night season, or goea fe/ting, and walke 
the streetes in the night season, unlesse he goe with the Proctors, 
uppon the payne appointed in the ould Statutes of the University, 
which is not meate. And they declare that it is the auncient custome, 
that the Proctors shall not goe a effing, without the licence of 
the Vice Chancellor, unlesse it be in Time of some suddayne 
danger or occasion.”—Cole’s MSS. vol. 42, in the British Museum. 
