[15] Cooper, Ath. Cantab. vol. i. p. 422.
[17] Survey of London, ed. 1618, p. 474. The church of St. Mildred was destroyed in the Great Fire.
[18] Braham Hall was in 1460 the residence of Sir John Braham, and is about a mile and a half from Manningtree, and in the parish of Brantham, where Tusser first introduced the culture of barley;
"In Brantham where rye but no barley did grow,
Good barley I had, as a many did know.
Five seam of an acre, I truly was paid,
For thirty load muck of each acre so laid."
—Chapt. 19, st. 9.
The field where barley first grew at Brantham is still pointed out by tradition.
[19] Hist. of Eng. Poetry, vol. iii. p. 249.
[20] Thus altered in "Recreations for ingenious Head Pieces; or a pleasant Grove for their Wits to walk in, etc.," 8vo. 1644:—
"Tusser, they tell me, when thou wert alive
Thou, teaching thrift, thyself could'st never thrive:
So, like the whetstone, many men are wont,
To sharpen others, when themselves are blunt."
[21] Shelf-mark, 10817, g.