Jethro Tull: his Life, Times, and Teaching. 13 
a student of Gray's Inn on December 11, 1G93, and was called to 
the Bar on May 19, 1699. It is recorded in the Order-book of the 
Society : " Mr. Jethro Tull had full standing in commons, per- 
formed his exercise, paid his duties, received the Sacrament, and 
has a chamber in his own right." It is recorded also that he had 
two years' standing at Staple Inn, and that he was the only son 
and heir of Jethro Tull, of Howberry, in the County of Oxford. 
The original bond, dated Easter term, 1G99, to duly pay charges 
at Gray's Inn, is, with signature' — " J®. Tull " — and seal, in the 
Cuthbert Johnson collection. 
Later in this year, Tall married — namely, on October 2G, 
1699 — Susanna Smith, of Burton- Dassett, in the county of 
Warwick, the bridegroom being described as " Jethro Tull, of 
Gray's Inn, gentleman." Mrs. Tull was of good family ; this is 
particularly stated by the HungerforJ friend, the original bio- 
grapher, and it is further evidenced by the numerous existing 
tombstones in the chancel of Burton-Dassett church and in 
that churchyard. 
The poor lady, commencing married life at an early age, 
probably trod an uphill and thorny path. Nothing is known 
of her beyond this : she survived her husband, and had one 
son and four daughters. As recited, she had a jointure, possibly 
a marriage settlement ; but was not the executrix of her 
husband's will, which might well have been a " damnosa ha^re- 
ditas." Mrs. Tull was more or less a woman of affairs, as may 
be gathered from this circumstance : on Sunday morning, 
.February 28, 1731, she called on Lord Cathcart, at his house in 
Queen Street, Westminster, and just as he was going to church, 
no doubt — as indicated by adjoining entries in the diary — on 
her husband's urgent private affairs. 
Tull studied law, not as a profession, but to investigate the 
principles of the Constitution, hoping to make a figure in public 
life ; he also, and probably with the same object, made, as was 
usual with educated men in those days, the grand tour of Europe. 
Habitually a dihgent observer, nothing escaped his attention. 
We are told he especially noted soils, culture, vegetable pro- 
ductions, methods, and implements. In the French vineyard 
culture he discovered what he thought one general method of 
cultivating to advantage all land in all countries. This tour was 
probably made between the years 1693-9, after his studentship 
at Gray's Inn, and before his call to the Bar and marriage. On 
his marriage he settled on a paternal farm in Oxfordshire. 
' A facsimile of TuU's signature as it appears on this bond is given in tl;e 
frontispiece. — (Ed.) _ 
