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was on the west side of Monkwell Street, in Farringdon 

 Ward. These two occupations were separated by a statute, 

 passed 1546, which forbade barbers performing any other 

 surgical operation than drawing teeth ; so that, though the 

 company still existed, its occupation was gone. It is certain 

 that Gerard never followed the profession of barber, but of 

 " surgeon and herbarist." After the long period — over tw&nty 

 years — during which he was gardener to Lord Burleigh, it 

 seems he was employed by James I. and his queen; for 

 among the public records are the following : — " Anne, queen 

 of England, &c., for the sum of five shillings, by way of fine 

 paid by John Gerard, of London, surgeon and herbarist to 

 the king, and for other considerations ; but especially of his 

 singular and approved art, skill, and ministrie in j)lanting, 

 nursing, and preserving of plants, pear-trees, flowers, and 

 fruits of all kinds, do grant and let to him one garden 

 plot .... containing about two acres, to be held by him (&c.) 

 from the feast of St. Michael next ensuing, for the term of 

 the queen's life, and for twenty-one years, paying annually a 

 rent of fourpence, to be paid quarterly, and yielding for our 

 own use at the proper seasons of the year a convenient 

 quantity of herbes, flowers and fruits, growing in the said 

 garden, by the art and industry of the said John Gerard, if 

 they be lawfully demanded of him." 



But little more is known about Gerard. That he 

 travelled out of England is shown by a remark in his 

 chapter on the " Firre, or Deale-tree," of which he says: — 

 " They are found likewise in Pruse, Pomerania, Liefeland, 

 Eussia, and especially in Norway ; where I haue scene the 

 goodliest trees in the worlde of this kinde, growing vpon the 

 rockie and craggie mountaines, almost without any earth 

 about them, or any other thing, sauing a little mosse about 

 the rootes, which thrust themselues he ere and there into the 

 chinkes and cranies of the rockes, and therefore are easily 



