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This intcrtstiiiL;- Ixjok ( (HuIikIcs with sonic curious ()hlc lCii<^Hish 

 Kulo tor purch.i^iiii; hiiul ; 



117/0 so 7i'ill be ivise in purchasing, 



Let him co)7sider these poi)its following : 



First see that the land bo clear 



In title of the seller ; 



And that it stand in dant^cr 



Of no woman's dowric ; 



See whether the tenure be bond or tree, 



And release of every fee-of-fec ; 



See that the seller be of age, 



And that it lie in not niortj^a.ge ; 



Whether ataiie be thereof found, 



And whether it stand in statute bound ; 



Consider what service longeth thereto. 



And what quitrent thereout must goe, 



And if it become of a wedded woman, 



Think thou then on covert baron ; 



And if thou may in any wise 



Make thy charter in warrantisc. 



To thee, thine heyres, assignees also ; 



Thus should a wise purchaser doe. 



Baniabc Googe died in February, I5()4, and was buried in 

 Cokcrino- Church. 



SIR HUGH PLAT. 



1552 — 161 I [cihoiif). 



Sir Ht'GH Flat was h)okcd ui)on in liis (kiy as a h'arncd and keen 

 obscr\cr and ch^ar-hcadcd writer, and a valuable pioneer in the trenches 

 of knowledge, vet so great was his modesty that most ot" his works seem 

 to be posthumous. He held a correspondence with all the most 

 enlightened exponents on agriculture in his day, and such was the 

 justice of his methods that, in direct contradiction to inai!\- otiier writers 

 ot" his time, he alwaxs naimd the originator of e\fr\- discovery c-om- 

 municated to him. 



Nothing appears to be known ot' his general status in life, beyond 

 that he seems to haxc been of the profession of the law, as he lirst 

 of all stvled himsel' of "Lincoln's Inne, Gent." lie h.id a seat called 

 Copt Hall in Hss.'X, mother stvhd F.ishop's Hall .it F.ednall (now 

 Bethnall) (ireen, in the p.irish of Stepney; h<- .also h.id .i town residence 

 ;il Fincoln's Inn, with .a g.irdeii in .St. M.irtin's F.ine, in ifjof), where- 

 in- grew ;i st-cond i rop of be.in^ on pl;uils lh.it had j)r(-\ iously borne, 

 ;ind had be(-n cut down. 



