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/ ack. 6, Sheunnes Gerarde Chiru us 
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JOHN GERARD was born at N 7 in the county of 
the loss of the baptismal registers of that place, | 
to give any closer approximation to e precis 
branch of the Gerards of Ince, in La 
bears a crescent for difference, the cr es) holding a hawk’s lure, 
with the motto D’assenti buone. Th re ‘to shew his parent- 
age. His name is most frequently s eller ‘de = doubt, from an 
engraver’s error in the Title-page, for ze self, z nd his f ‘invari spelled his name 
without the ‘‘e”’ final. 4 ’ 
He went to school at Wisters ; x al 
wich,‘ and probably there received all his sche ‘ rly a re he was drawn to 
the study of medicine,’ and travelled possi sh reon, ard some merchant vessel 
trading northwards, since he speaks ; 1g been fi nto Moscouia, . . . the 
Sownde, beyonde Denmarke,”’” anc d, Liuonia, or Russia, or in 
any of those colde countries, wher Iso have visited the 
Mediterranean.? - fag : 
He must have settled L fc _ Sing sgof | 
gardens belonging to Lord B ‘Str )balds in Hertfordshire, for 
twenty years, which occ , ne oT “t 
£10 weekly, to keep the poo 
none to whom I pay not wages, 
Lord Burleigh’s garden in 
it affords additional proof that: 
Hentzner, who visited Theoba ds 
description of the garden ai | Gera c 
is no existing list of admissions to the Freedom and Livery of the Barber-Surgeons’ Company, about 
this time, so that we cannot from this source ascertain the date of his first residing in London; at 
that period, no one could carry on the trade of “ barbarie or chirurgerie”’ in the City, without being 
at least a Freeman of that Company; recalcitrant members of the craft being summarily committed 
to the Compter. Pee e | e | 
~ He made friends in his profession, for George Baker, “one of the chiefe chirurgions in ordinarie” 
to Queen Elizabeth, had a high opinion of Gerard’s attainments, since he says,* “I protest vpon my 
conscience, I do not thinke for the knowledge of plants, that he is inferior to any: for I did once 
in 1545,7 but owing to 
572, we are not able 
from some younger 
Coat of Arms,’ which 
employed in his gardens; he also says, “ For my servants, I keep 
and give liveries, which I know many do not.’ L’Obel mentions 
= but as he is totally silent in his earlier works about Gerard, 
ad not then made his mark as a successful gardener. 
3 Burleigh was buried, has given a 
Ger 203. * Portrait in Ger. ante p. . + Th.lefthand lower corner. + Ger. rogr._§ Th. 515. 
Pe 6 Ger. cat. ed. IT. pref. — Pad. i Ib. oS eee Ae eee a, » Tb, pref. 
_  Biog. Brit. ii. 1267. #2 Lob, Adv. 422. 3 Hentz. Itin,138. =“ Baker,inGer, 
fot ecelur se curaturum Hortum WllePee 
Cesuecs concliCrontdus, orn fate herbarcem varierum 3 
Stnere vefertum tuer. Annales. e 
Rol of ROR Kon TP munk . 2a. 1a) 2.U.3. fr. 906.1. 
