FIUE HUNDRED POINTES
OF
GOOD HUSBANDRIE.
BY
THOMAS TUSSER.
The Edition of 1580 collated with those of 1573 and 1577. Togetherwith a Reprint, from the Unique Copy in the BritishMuseum, of "A Hundreth Good Pointesof 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 ofour ancestors Tusser's writings must always possess considerableinterest, to the Members of the English Dialect Society theyare especially valuable for the large number of dialectic wordsand forms which they contain. The Glossary has thereforebeen made very full, possibly, in the opinion of some, too full;but as this is the most important portion of the work to theSociety, I have thought it better to err, if at all, on the rightside.
With regard to the preparation of this Edition a few wordsmay be necessary. As the Members of the Society are aware, thetask was originally undertaken by Mr. W. Payne. Ill-healthunfortunately prevented him from carrying the work to acompletion, but to him the Society is indebted for the supervisionof the reprint of the Edition of 1580, which he collated mostcarefully with the editions of 1557 and 1577, and to which headded several pieces from those editions, thus making the presentreprint more complete than any yet published. Mr. Payne alsocompiled a very complete Index of Words, which has been ofgreat assistance to me for purposes of reference, and in preparing[Pg vi]the Glossary. The notes also from Tusser Redivivus (markedT.R.) were for the most part extracted by Mr. Payne.
A reprint of the First Edition of 1557 was not included inthe original programme, but after the work came into my handsan opportunity was presented through the kindness of Mr. F.J. Furnivall, who lent for the purpose his copy of the reprintof 1810, of exhibiting the work in its original form of "Onehundreth Points" side by side with the extended edition of1580, the last which had the benefit of the author's supervision.The proof-sheets have been collated with the unique copy inthe British Museum by Miss Toulmin-Smith, to whom I returnmy thanks for her kindness, and the correctness of the reprintmay consequently be relied on. From Mr. F. J. Furnivall Ihave received numerous hints, and much valuable help, whileto Mr. J. Britten, F.L.S., I am indebted for his kindness inrevising and supplementing the notes on the Plants named inTusser. But my chief obligations are due to the Rev. W. W.Skeat, whose uniform kindness has considerably lightened mylabours, and from whom both directly and indirectly (throughthe notes in his numerous publications), but more particularlyin his noble edition of Piers Plowman, I have derived thegreatest assistance.
S. J. H.
May 14th, 1878.
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