PREFACE. 
Rrcnarp Antony Sartssvry, the only son of Richard Markham, a 
cloth-merchant in Leeds, was bornin 1761; he lived for some time at 
Chapel Allerton in Yorkshire, and published a Catalogue of the Plants 
of his garden there; he subsequently sold his property in that 
county and came to London, and lived at 18 Queen Street, Edgeware 
Road, where, in a small garden not more than thirty feet square, he 
cultivated several hundred rare plants, each in a small pot. He 
married Caroline Stainforth in 1796, and had a daughter Eleanor, 
born on the 6th of November 1797, who married Major Brice, of 
Bath. His married life was nota happy one. In January and March 
1829 he had two paralytic attacks, and he died in London about the 
middle of March in that year. In a letter in my possession, he 
states that “in the year 1780 I first became acquainted with Mrs. 
Anna Salisbury, a -a old maiden oy, m in ie gave me 
on condition of. my bikini the name » of Salisbury only; out. of respect 
to the memory of her brother John Salisbury of Exeter deceased.” 
In the same letter he observes, *I have for many years in vain 
sought a relation of my maternal grandmother, whose name was 
Salisbury with an i, not Salusbury with an u ;” and in another letter 
he says, “Mrs. Anna Salisbury was a connexion of my maternal 
grandmother, who was Hester Salisbury of Wales ;” and he proceeds, 
* my heir at law is immensely rich, so I follow Mrs. Anna Salisbury's 
plan in some respec 
« My mother descended from Jonathan Laycock, of Shaw Hill, who 
married Mary Lyte, sister of Squire Lyte of Lytes Carey, who trans- 
lated Dodoens’ *"Herball? into English ; so I inherit a taste for botany 
from very ancient bl 
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