248 LOBEL 



' all my bookes^ as well concerning my Latin studies, as picturenge 

 with all my printes, little pictures, shells, marbers, statues, and all 

 my antiquities and old Coines and such like rarities commonly shutt 

 within my Counting House in Lyme St.* To numerous friends 

 and relations with Dutch names he bequeathed silver cups and 

 pieces of plate. 



Under Cole's roof Lobel probably added the last touches to 

 a compilation, the manuscript of which is now before us, and which 

 we may call the Stirpium Illnstratiojies. The date of the work is 

 settled by the imprimatur which bears the signature of Thomas 

 Moundeford in his official capacity of President of the College of 

 Physicians. He filled this post from 1612 to 1614. 



The original testimonials with which Lobel had provided himself 

 for two of his works are still extant. They are both from the 

 College of Physicians, and are signed by the most eminent doctors 

 in London. The names on the earlier document take us back 

 a long way, to 1605, two years before Harvey became a Fellow of 

 the College. The signatures are headed by : 



Thomas Langton - as President ; then follow John Craig,^who is said 

 to have given Napier a hint that led to the invention of logarithms; 

 Sir William Paddy,'* Sir T. Turquet de Mayerne,'^ Henry Atkins,® 



^ Two of James Cole's books are known to me. One a Dodoens in the 

 Goodyer collection ; the other, Clusius, Per Hispanias, formerly in the British 

 Museum, but turned out as a duplicate in 1769, and now in the possession of 

 my friend Dr. Daydon Jackson, Both books have his sxQn^ture Jacobi Colei on 

 the title-page. 



"^ Thomas Langton, M.D. Cantab. F.R.C.P. 1581 ; President, 1604, 5, 6. 

 d. 1606. 



^ John Craig, M.D. of Bale. First Physician to James VI of Scotland. 

 F.R.C.P. 1604. He attended James I in his last illness. 



* Sir W. Paddy, M.D., of St. John's College, Oxford, where a monument 

 records his great benefactions to the College. Physician to James I. President 

 of the College of Physicians, 1609-11, and in 1618. 



^ Sir Theodore de Maverne, M.D. b. Geneva 1573, d. 1655; M.D. 

 Montpelier 1597 ; F.R.C.P. 1616. Physician to Anne of Denmark, Charles I, 

 and Charles II. 



* H enky Atkins. President of the College of Physicians, on seven occasions, 

 1606-25. He started with the naval expedition of 1597 as physician to the Earl 

 of Essex, but was so bad a sailor that he had to be put ashore at Plymouth, and 

 the College was ordered by the Queen to select another medical man to accompany 

 the expedition. The choice fell on Dr. Moundeford. Dr. Atkins was chosen by 

 James I to fetch his younger son, subsequently Charles 1, then an infant from 

 Scotland, d. 1635. His will has recently been acquired by the College of 

 Physicians. 



