Thomas Tusser

Thomas Tusser was an English farmer and poet who also worked, at different times, as a chorister, a courtier and a schoolmaster. He farmed in Suffolk, Essex and elsewhere with little lasting success.

He is remembered for his rhymed farming manual, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie (1557), later enlarged as Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie. Gilfillan's Specimens prints two short pieces from it.