Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-04-08

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frvt lIuSDR u fclxrs Coon HuspArDsy. ons OF IL
curious ssd rerkAbe books resline 10 the rienss
Of agriculture. hch have met with. is. "Fss
Rasdsed Poisfs g Good HasSsaary. rs well for The
champion open country r the woodland several
together with BSsi Of H1scery being calender Of
rural aud domestic economy Tor month in the year
aud exhibiting picture OF the Agriculture Customs and
Manners OF England in the sxeen,h century, by rhonAs
Tusser, gentleman" A new edition OF this work
printed In London, in lSl2 "wih noies georgical il
iu,trativs and explanatory. by William Msvor. L. L. ID.
honorary member the British Board Of Agriculture" In
preliminary essay this edition. twenty three other ed
described having been issued between the first
in 1857 aud the year i1tt OF THE preliminary essay"
biographical sketch by Dr. Mavor, the following ab
made, introductory extracts from the
Poem which shall present to our readers occasionally,
for their amusemcnt-possbly their Improvement.
Thomas Tusser gentleman" born about the year
$780, the regn OF Horny Will in the county vi Essex.
Al early he put % music school, and was made
chotister singing boy in the chapel OF tho Castle Of
wallngford. lie afterwards admitted into ST. Pauls,
where he arrived considerable proficiency in music
Subsequently he Elton School. whence he
removed 10 Cambridge and entered Trinity Hall. lie
found patron in William Lord Paget, and retained in
the family of that noblemsn years. Being disguised
with the vices and hsassed with the contentious oil
tiers he retired the country. married. and embraced
the profession Of farmer, at small hamlet in the county
o Suffolk. Here he composed book OF Hushandry, the
first edition o which published in 1857 This
the germ Of future and enlarged work-con,aning
outline OF system of agriculture which could be drawn
Only by practical handhc laying Of the colors
tho fruit Of ample experience aud observation Tusser
afterwards removed Ipswich, where he lost his good
wife"he oy -pi,het by which she is known. lie then
removed Norwich and soon after married second wife,
by the ct Mson-ou which chang cable planet he
plays by contrasting IL with the object OF his choice. IL
may be fairly inferred from his words. that his hepp
promoted by this match. lie complains OF
the changes incident wife in youth" Had she
united her real ,huughs Ia postey, might perhaps
have heard insinuations againstan old husband
The nobility and pr.laes OF the church the patrons
1T Tus,er Norfolk I'd Suffolk. Again he commenced
1.-THE farmer in farstcd. his native placc but he was
match for the shrewdness and articles o his rural
cnporar,s and he removed to London The plague rag
ing London 1874, he sought refuge in Cambridge
which he has thus recorded
When gains gone, and years grew on,
And Death did cry, "From London n.y."
In Cambridge then, l found again
A resting plot;
In college best OF all the rest,
With thanks TO thee, y Trinity!
Through thee and thine, for and mine,
Some stay lRo;.
When the danger vanished his pedection for London
returned and ho died there, about 1890 His
inferred in ST. Mdreds church. in the Poultry and
the following cpaph probably written by himself records
his memory aud is perfectly characteristic OF tho and
his writings
Here Thomas Tusscr, clad in earth doth lie
Who sometime made the Points OF Husbandry:
by him then learn thou may st-herc learn mast,
When al! is done we sleep and dust:
And yet. through Christ, to heaven hope TO go;
Who reads his books, shall hnd his faith SO.
For author the vicsudes OF his life present an I'M
common variety o.: incident Without tincurc OF Care
less npudence vicious extravaganza he have
thved vocation IL was quantity observed by Ut
his biographefs, That his st,ne which gathered moss
the OF Sysphus; and in Peachum's AIinerya
book Of omblems. printed in 1884, there is device OF
milestone and seythe, with these lines:-
Tu: ser, they tell me- when thou vert slivc,
Thou, teaching THRIFT, myself couldst thrive
81, like the MILESTONE wont
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