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("hallciior, Sir ("uthbert Buck, Lord Mayor ol" Lontlon, and Sir I-'.dward 

 Driiiiy. Ilr rcioinmcMuls horn shavings for field peas, as llie\- li.id hetn 

 useil ni.isl siuH-esst'ulIy by Mr. I'loinel at iM'thiiall (ireen. On ])a_«;e ij;(> 

 he complains of the L;erininali()n of seeds : 



Whereof the liunchedth one came not up.ailhouoli pcradxeiiUire I mit;lu be abused 

 in the seeds, which is an ordinary practice \n tliese days with all such as follow that 

 way, either to deliver the seeds which they sell ming-led with such as are old and 

 withered, or else to sell such as are stark naught. I would there were some fit punisii- 

 ment devised for these petif cosenors by whose means many poor men in Kngiand do 

 oftentimes lose. Chcapside is full of these lyins^ and forswearing- huswives. 



It can on])- he inferred from such a statement that in these times the 

 sale of seeds was left mainhto street hawkers. 



He was the third son of Richard Piatt Brewer, of London, and 

 was christened at St. James's Garlick Hythe, London, Ma\- 3rd, IS5-- 

 In the register of Lincoln's Inn it is recorded that on May 4th, in the 

 thirteenth year of Elizabeth's reign (1571), he was admitted a student, 

 introduced by John Pinkerynge and Thomas Lodge. He evidently 

 married, as, in his will, executed on October iQth, 1608, he left his wife 

 Judith all his propert\-. That he had some sons is proved b)- the fact 

 that in Hornsey Church is a monument to William Piatt, founder of 

 some fellowships in St. John's College, Cambridge. He died in 1637, 

 and the inscription tells that he was one of the sons of Sir Hugh Piatt, 

 of Berhnal Green. As several members of this household are buried at 

 Hornse\-, it ma\- be that it was the famil\- Inirial ])lat'e. 



It is curious to observe how frequentlv these old writers spell their 

 own names in different wavs. It ma\- be due to the publishers, who 

 seenietl in that day to lune greater control o\er the books issued than 

 the authors themselves. 



JOHN NORDEN. 



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Although several other authors appeared about this time upon surxeving 

 and measuring land, John .\orden seems to have been held in thegreati'st 

 repute. He was the writer of the " Surveior's Dialogue," which first 

 appeared in 1607, printed by Hugh Astley, dwelling at St. Magnus 

 Corner. A second edition f(dlo\\cd in ibio, j^rinted for J. Busby .-it his 

 shop in .Si. Dunslane's Churthyarcl in Fleet .Siri'et. It was issuc-d a'Min 

 in 1618, and the title page of this edition is reproduced on page 63. It is 

 addressed from his " poore house at Ilendon," and dedicated to ''the 

 Right Honourable Robert, Lord Cecill, Baron of Lsingdon, X'icecount 



