AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1582. 



that the plant that beareth the Coren is also brought into 

 this realme from thence ; and although it bring not fruit 

 to perfection, yet it may serve for pleasure and for 

 some use, like as our vines doe, which we cannot well 

 spare, although the climat so colde will not permit us 

 to have good wines of them. And many other things 

 have bene brought in, that have degenerated by reason 

 of the colde climat, some other things brought in have 

 by negligence bene lost. The Archbishop of Canter- 

 burie Edmund Grindall, after he returned out of 

 Germany, brought into this realme the plant of 

 Tamariske from thence, and this plant he hath so 

 increased that there be here thousands of them ; and 

 many people have received great health by this plant : 

 and if of things brought in such care were had, then 

 could not the first labour be lost. The seed of 

 Tabacco hath bene brought hither out of the West 

 Indies, it groweth heere, and with the herbe many 

 have bene eased of the reumes, &c. Each one of a 

 great number of things were woorthy of a journey to 

 be made into Spaine, Italy, Barbarie, Egypt, Zante, 

 Constantinople, the West Indies, and to divers other 

 places neerer and further off then any of these, yet 

 forasmuch as the poore are not able, and for that the 

 rich setled at home in quiet will not, therefore we are 

 to make sute to such as repaire to forren kingdomes, 

 for other businesses, to have some care heerein, and 

 to set before their eyes the examples of these good 

 men, and to endevour to do for their parts the like, 

 as their speciall businesses may permit the same. Thus 

 giving you occasion by way of a little remembrance, 

 to have a desire to do your countrey good, you shall, 

 if you have any inclination to such good, do more 

 good to the poore ready to starve for reliefs, then 

 ever any subject did in this realme by building of 

 Almeshouses, and by giving of lands and goods to 

 the reliefe of the poore. Thus may you helpe to 

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