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Readers who love gardens, farms, folk sayings and old English country life will enjoy it, as will anyone curious about how Tudor households worked, ate and celebrated.
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What would you do with a year of farm work if you had to remember it all without a notebook? Thomas Tusser answers with rhyme. In his book, every month of the Tudor farming year arrives as a string of short, jingling couplets that tell you what to plough, sow, mend, sell and feast on.
Tusser was a farmer, singer and former courtier, born in Essex around 1525. He first printed a hundred points of husbandry in 1557, and by 1573 he had grown it into five hundred, with a second part on housewifery. He wrote from practice, and he says plainly that losses and bad bargains taught him most of it. The book gives you the working year of an English farm, plus hops, bees, dairy work, servants, rent and Christmas cheer.
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- 1A singing boy becomes a farming teacherFree
- 2Thrift is a ladder of small habits
- 3Autumn begins with Michaelmas and the plough
- 4Christmas is a duty of open-handed hospitality
- 5Spring and summer turn to lambs, gardens, dairy and hay
- 6Harvest is organised, shared and thankfully ended
- 7Enclosure, the housewife and faith close the book
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A singing boy becomes a farming teacher
Thomas Tusser is born around 1525 at Rivenhall in Essex. His father places him as a singing boy in the chapel at Wallingford castle, though his mother weeps and begs against it. Tusser later describes the bare robes, the stale bread and the penny ale of that school. His fine voice carries him on to the choir of St Paul's in London.
Then he goes to Eton, where the master Nicholas Udall beats him fifty-three times for a small fault. Cambridge comes next. A long illness ends his studies, and he joins the household of Lord Paget as a musician. He spends about ten years at court. He sees cards, dice and pride ruin many people there, and he leaves when the court turns unfriendly.
He marries and farms at Cattiwade in Suffolk, where he writes his first hundred points, printed in 1557. He later moves on through Norfolk, Essex, London and Cambridge, driven by sickness, plague and quarrelsome neighbours. Money never settles easily for him. He dies in London in 1580, and his epitaph says that whoever reads his books will find his faith.
The small book grows as his life does. By 1573 it has become five hundred points of good husbandry united with as many of housewifery. A table helps the reader find any matter fast.
His book comes from tested practice and honest loss, which is why it speaks so plainly.
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What is Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry about?
It is a rhyming guide to the English farming year, set out month by month. It covers ploughing, sowing, livestock, hops, dairy work, harvest and Christmas, then turns to a housewife's daily work and short poems on faith and life.
Who was Thomas Tusser?
He was an Elizabethan farmer, singer and poet, born in Essex around 1525. He sang in choirs, studied at Cambridge, served Lord Paget, then farmed in Suffolk and elsewhere. He died in London in 1580.
What does the title mean by husbandry and housewifery?
Husbandry is the work of the farmer, such as land, crops and stock. Housewifery is the work of the wife, such as the dairy, brewing, cooking and the household. Tusser says the two must work together.
Is it worth reading today?
It offers a vivid picture of Tudor country life, with real tools, foods, customs and sayings. Its advice on thrift, honest dealing and generous hospitality is still easy to follow and often lively.
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Tusser, Thomas. Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/fiue-hundred-pointes-of-good-husbandrie.
Tusser, T. (2026). Fiue hundred pointes of good husbandrie. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/fiue-hundred-pointes-of-good-husbandrie (Original work published 1573)
Tusser, Thomas. Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/fiue-hundred-pointes-of-good-husbandrie.
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