[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.