FITZHERBERT, SIR ANTHONY English judge, was born at Norbury, Derbyshire, and from 1523 till within a short time of his death in 1538 was justice of the court of com mon pleas. He is the author of La Graunde Abridgement, a digest of important legal cases written in Old French, first printed in 1514; The Office and Authority of Justices of the Peace, first printed in 1538 (last ed. 1794) ; the New Natura Brevium last ed. 1794), with a commentary ascribed to Sir Matthew Hale. To Fitzherbert are sometimes attributed the Book of Husbandry (1523), the first published work on agriculture in the English language, and the Book of Surveying and Improvements (1523) (see AGRICULTURE).