28 ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



"I find, however, in a recital of a deed concerning 

 Tuck's Gary, which I conceive to be what is marked in the 

 Ordnance Map as Cook's Gary, tliat it is stated to have 

 been the inberitance of Henry Lyte, Esq., of Lyte's Gary, 

 afterwards of Thomas Lyte, gentleman, and of Thomas 

 Cooke, Esq., of the same place, and from them it passed to 

 Thomas Freke and John Freke "Willes, soon after whose 

 death, in 1799, this part of the property was bought by my 

 grandfather. lipon it, skirting the river Gary, which gave 

 its name to the Manor, is a long trench, which I conceive« 

 to be the remains of fish ponds. The dam for supplying 

 these ponds with water may have been at the bridge where 

 the road crosscs to Kingsdon. 



" There is said to have been a botanic gardeu at Lyte's 

 Gary in Elizabeth's time, but I have not been able to make 

 out from my tenant whether any peculiar plants remain so 

 as to guess the site. 



" I give here the title of a work on botany, published 

 by one of the family : — 



" ' A niewe Herball or historie of plantes whereln is 

 contayned the whole discourse and perfect description of 

 all sorts of Herbs and Plantes, their divers and suudry 

 Kindes ; their stränge Figures, Fashions, and Shapes ; their 

 Names, Natures, Operations, and Vertues ; and that not 

 onely of those whlche are here growing in this our Gountrie 

 of Englande, but of all others also of forayne Realmes, 

 commonly used in Physiche. Fii'st set foorth in the 

 Doutche or Almaigne tongue, by that learned D. Eembert 

 Dodoens, Physition to the Emperour ; and nowe first 

 translated out of French into English by Henry Lyte 

 Esquyer. At London by me Gerard Dewes, dwelling in 

 Paules Ghurchyarde, at the sign of the Swanne. 1578.' 



" There are otlier editions of 1586, 1595, and 1619. 1 do 



