Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie

FIUE HUNDRED POINTES OF GOOD HUSBANDRIE. BY THOMAS TUSSER. THE EDITION OF 1580 COLLATED WITH THOSE OF 1573 AND 1577. TOGETHER WITH A REPRINT, FROM THE UNIQUE COPY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, OF "A HUNDRETH GOOD POINTES OF HUSBANDRIE," 1557. EDITED (WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND GLOSSARY) BY W. PAYNE, ESQ., AND SIDNEY J. HERRTAGE, ESQ., B.A. LONDON: PUBLISHED FOR THE ENGLISH DIALECT SOCIETY BY TRÜBNER & CO., 57 AND 59, LUDGATE HILL. 1878. PREFACE. While for all who take an interest in the customs and life of our ancestors Tusser's writings must always possess considerable interest, to the Members of the English Dialect Society they are especially valuable for the large number of dialectic words and forms which they contain. The Glossary has therefore been made very full, possibly, in the opinion of some, too full; but as this is the most important portion of the work to the Society, I have thought it better to err, if at all, on the right side. With regard to the preparation of this Edition a few words may be necessary. As the Members of the Society are aware, the task was originally undertaken by Mr. W. Payne. Ill-health unfortunately prevented him from carrying the work to a completion, but to him the Society is indebted for the supervision of the reprint of the Edition of 1580, which he collated most carefully with the editions of 1557 and 1577, and to which he added several pieces from those editions, thus making the present reprint more complete than any yet published. Mr. Payne also compiled a very complete Index of Words, which has been of great assistance to me for purposes of reference, and in preparing the Glossary. The notes also from Tusser Redivivus (marked T.R.) were for the most part extracted by Mr. Payne. A reprint of the First Edition of 1557 was not included in the original programme, but after the work came into my hands an opportunity was presented through the kindness of Mr. F. J. Furnivall, who lent for the purpose his copy of the reprint of 1810, of exhibiting the work in its original form of "One hundreth Points" side by side with the extended edition of 1580, the last which had the benefit of the author's supervision. The proof-sheets have been collated with the unique copy in the British Museum by Miss Toulmin-Smith, to whom I return my thanks for her kindness, and the correctness of the reprint may consequently be relied on. From Mr. F. J. Furnivall I have received numerous hints, and much valuable help, while to Mr. J. Britten, F.L.S., I am indebted for his kindness in revising and supplementing the notes on the Plants named in Tusser. But my chief obligations are due to the Rev. W. W. Skeat, whose uniform kindness has considerably lightened my labours, and from whom both directly and indirectly (through the notes in his numerous publications), but more particularly in his noble edition of Piers Plowman, I have derived the greatest assistance. S. J. H. May 14th, 1878. [Transcriber's note: The original print edition has both page footnotes and an end section of 'Notes and Illustrations.' In this digital edition, the page footnotes are grouped at the end of each chapter and renumbered accordingly: [1], [[2], etc. References to the endnotes are numbered [E1], [E2], etc. The html version also links words in the main text to their reference points in the Glossary. The 'Erratum' on p. xxxii of the print edition has been silently corrected within the text, and the 'Additional Notes' on p. 317 are now incorporated within the preceding 'Notes and Illustrations.'] CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE v BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR xi TUSSER'S WILL xxix Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie 1 A lesson how to confer euery abstract with his month, &c. 2 A Table of the Pointes of Husbandrie 3 1. Epistle to Lord W. Paget 5 2. Epistle to Lord T. Paget 7 3. To the Reader 11 4. Introduction to the Booke of Husbandrie 13 5. Preface to the Buier of this Booke 14 6. The Commodities of Husbandrie 15 7. A Riddle 15 8. The Description of Husbandrie 16 9. The Ladder to thrift 17 10. Good husbandlie lessons 18 11. An habitation inforced better late than neuer 27 12. The fermers dailie diet 27 13. Description of the properties of windes at all seasons 29 14. Of the Planets 30 15. Septembers Abstract 31 16. Septembers husbandrie 34 17. A digression to husbandlie furniture 35 18. Octobers abstract 43 19. Octobers husbandrie 47 20. Nouembers abstract 53 21. Nouembers husbandrie 55 22. Decembers abstract 59 23. Decembers husbandrie 61 24. A digression to hospitalitie 65 25. Description of time and the yeare 65 26. Description of life and riches 66 27. Description of housekeeping 67 28. Description of Christmas 67 29. Description of apt time to spend 68 30. Against fantasticall scruplenes 69 31. Christmas husbandlie fare 69 32. A Christmas Caroll 70 33. Januaries abstract 72 34. Of trees or fruites to be set or remooued 76 35. Januaries husbandrie 76 36. Februaries abstract 85 37. Februaries husbandrie 87 38. Marches abstract 91 39. Seedes and herbes for the Kitchen 93 40. Herbes and rootes for sallets and sauce 94 41. Herbes and rootes to boile or to butter 95 42. Strowing herbes of all sortes 95 43. Herbes, branches, and flowers, for windowes and pots 95 44. Herbes to still in Sommer 96 45. Herbes for Physick, etc. 97 46. Marches husbandrie 97 47. Aprils abstract 102 48. Aprils husbandrie 103 49. A lesson for dairie maid Cisley 107 50. Maies abstract 109 51. Maies husbandrie 111 52. Junes abstract 116 53. Junes husbandrie 117 54. Julies abstract 121 55. Julies husbandrie 122 56. Augusts abstract 124 57. Augusts husbandrie 128 58. Corne Haruest equally deuided into ten partes 136 59. A briefe conclusion, each word beginning with the letter T 137 60. Mans age deuided into twelue seauens 138 61. Another diuision of mans age 138 62. Comparison between good and bad husband 139 63. Comparison betweene Champion countrie and seuerall 140 64. Description of an enuious neighbour 146 64.* To light a candell before the Deuill 148 65. A sonet against a slanderous tongue 150 66. Sonet upon the Authors first seuen yeeres seruice 151 67. Dialogue on wiuing and thriuing 152 68. The Authors Epistle to the Ladie Paget 159 69. The Authors Epistle to the Reader 161 70. The Author's Preface to his booke of Huswiferie 162 71. The praise of Huswiferie 163 72. A description of Huswife and Huswiferie 163 73. Instructions to Huswiferie 163 74. A digression to cockcrowing 165 75. Huswiferie morning workes 167 76. Huswifelie breakefast workes 168 77. Huswifelie admonitions or lessons 168 78. Brewing 170 79. Baking 171 80. Cookerie 171 81. Dairie 172 82. Scouring 172 83. Washing 173 84. Malting 173 85. Dinner time huswiferie 174 86. Huswifelie afternoone workes 175 87. Huswifelie euening workes 177 88. Supper time huswiferie 178 89. After Supper workes of huswiferie 179 90. The ploughmans feasting daies 180 91. The good huswifelie Physicke 182 92. The good motherlie nurserie 183 93. A precept of thinking on the poore 183 94. A comparison betweene good huswiferie and euill 184 95. The meanes for children to attaine to learning 185 96. A description of womans age 187 97. The Inholders posie 187 98. Certain Table Lessons 188 99. Lessons for waiting seruants 189 100. Husbandly posies for the hall 190 101. Posies for the parler 190 102. Posies for the gests chamber 191 103. Posies for thine owne bed chamber 192 104. A Sonet to the Ladie Paget 193 105. Principall points of Religion 193 106. The Authors beleefe 194 107. Of the omnipotencie of God and debilitie of man 199 108. Of Almes deedes 200 109. Of malus homo 201