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corner of the east- wall, on which the Latin inscription is 

 still easily legible. He left two daughters and a son. 



Turner's works are theological, medical, botanical, and 

 general, of which a list is given in the ' Flora of Middlesex,' 

 abeady mentioned. One example will serve to illustrate the 

 curious titles of his controversial works : — * The huntyng 

 and fyncling out of the Romyshe Foxe, which more than 

 seuen yeares hath bene hyd among the bisshoppes of 

 Englonde, after that the Kynges Hyghnes had commanded 

 hym to be dryven owt of hys Eealme.' Basyll, 1543. 12mo. 

 Published under the pseudonym of Willm. Wraghton, and 

 dedicated to King Henry VIII. 



Turner's first botanical work, called ' Lihellus cle Re 

 Herbaria novus' (new pamphlet on Botan}^), was printed in 

 London in 1538. It was a quarto tract of twenty pages, in 

 which are noticed the localities of several plants in his 

 native county of Northumberland ; and these are the earliest 

 printed records of the kind in England. In 1548 he pub- 

 lished ' The Names of Herhes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, 

 Duche, and FrencJie, wyth the commune names that Herba- 

 ries and Apotecaries use.' London. The preface is dated 

 from Sion House, the residence of the Lord Protector, to 

 whom the book is dedicated. 



His ' Herbal,' by which Turner is best known, appeared 

 at different times. The first part, dedicated to the Duke of 

 Somerset, was published in 1551: it is called 'A New 

 Herhall, wherein are contejmed the names of Herbes in 

 Greke, Latin, Englysh, Duch, French, and in the Potecaries 

 and Herbaries Latin ; with the properties, degrees, and 

 naturall places of the same; gathered and made by Wylliam 

 Turner, Phisicion vnto the Duke of Somersettes Grace.' It 

 is a folio book, containing ninety-four leaves in all. ' The 

 seconde imrte of Fuilliam Turner's Herhall, wherein are 

 conteyned,' Sec, was published at Cologne in 1562; and the 



