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97. Date of a Charter.
—Having been in the habit of making frequent consultations to the MSS. in the British Museum respecting the county of Wilts, I found a charter temp. Henry III., the date of which is given as "Thursday next after the day whereon the King sent his daughter into Sicily!"
It is now three years since I last saw the original, and having mislaid my transcript, I quote from memory; but I believe I am correct in my rendering from the Latin.
Can you, through the medium of your valuable publication, fix with accuracy this date, as I have not been able to do so.
J. T. HAND.
29. Threadneedle Street, Aug. 13. 1851.
98. Thomas Tusser the "Husbandman."
—Has any new evidence been discovered to prove the correct dates of the birth and decease of this "old English worthy?" On his own authority we learn that Rivenhall, near Witham in Essex, was the place of his nativity, and his remains were interred (about 1580?) in St. Mildred's church in the Poultry. Are any particulars known of Sir Richard Southwell, one of Tusser's patrons?
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.