Note 99n — INDEX
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[215] See table at end, and Thorold Rogers's prices in Vol. V. of his great work.
[216] 'A perfite platforme of a Hoppegarden', in Arte of Gardening, by R. Scott, 1574.
[217] Tusser recommends that the hopyard be dug. Thomas Tusser was born in Essex, about 1525, and died in 1580. He led a roving life, which included a good deal of farming; but the statement that he died poor appears to be inaccurate. Much of his advice is not very valuable.
[218] Harrison, Description of Britain, p. 110.
[219] Usually grown in gardens, until the middle of the seventeenth century. Tusser also mentions them.
[220] Description of Britain, ii. 324 (Furnivall ed.).
[221] Harrison, Description of Britain, ii. 329.
[222] State of the Poor, i. 48-9. Blomefield's Norfolk, iv. 569, i. 51, i. 649. Dugdale, Warwickshire, p. 557.
[223] Description of Britain, iii. 5.
[224] Description of Britain (ed. Furnivall), ii. 243.
[225] Froude, History of England, v. III.
[226] 'A compendious or brief examination of certain ordinary complaints', quoted by Eden, State of the Poor, 1. 119.
[227a] Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (New Series), xix. 103.
[227b] Ibid. xi. 74 sq.
[228] Nasse, Agricultural Community of the Middle Ages, p. 9. Archaeologia, xxxiii. 270.
[229] In the still surviving open fields at Laxton, mentioned above, there are certain unploughed portions called 'sicks', or grassy patches, never cultivated.—Slater, op. cit. p. 9.
[230] Archaeologia, xlvi. 374.
[231] Description of Britain, ii. 150.
[232] In the reign of Mary, 'the plain poor people did make very much of acorns.' Cullum, Hawsted, p. 181.
[233] Eden, State of the Poor, i. 116.
[234] Itinerary, iii. 140.
[235] Rutland Magazine, i. 64.
[236] Victoria County History: Lincolnshire, ii. 331.
[237] See Records of Cust Family, i. 56.