34 ON THE DAMASK AND MUSK ROSE AND THE TOUT. 



thousand that we use more, the first inhabitors of this island found 

 not here. And in time of memory things have bene brought in that 

 were not here before, as the Damaske Rose by Doctour Linaker, 

 King Henry the Seventh and King Henry the Eight's physician ; 

 the Turky cocks and hennes about fifty years past ; the artichowe in 

 time of King Henry the Eight ; and of later time was procured out 

 of Italy the Muske Rose plant, the plumrae called the Perdigmena, 

 and two kindes more by the Lord Cromwell after his travel, and the 

 Abricot by a French priest, one Wolfe Gardiner, to King Henry the 

 Eight ; and now, within these four yeares, there have bene brought 

 into England from Vienna, in Austria, divers kind of flowers called 

 Tulipas, and those and other procured thither a little before from 

 Constantinople, by an excellent man called M. Carolus Clusius. And 

 it is sayd that since we traded to Zante, that the plant that beareth 

 the coren is also brought into this realme from thence, and although 

 it bring not fruit to perfection, yet it may serve for pleasure and for 

 some use, like our vines doe, which we cannot well spare, although 

 the climat so colde will not permit us to have good wines from them. 

 And many other things have bene brought in, that have degenerated 

 by reason of the cold climat ; some other things brought in have by 

 negligence bene lost. The Archbishop of Canterburie, Edmund 

 Grindall, after he returned out of Germany, brought into this realme 

 the plant of Tamaris from thence, and this plant he hath so increased 

 that there be here thousands of them, and many people have received 

 great health by this plant ; and if of things brought in such care were 

 had, then could not the first labour be lost. The seed of tabacco 

 hath bene brought hither out of the West Indies ; it groweth here, 

 and with the herbe many have bene eased of the reumes, &c. Each 

 one of a great number of things were woorthy of a journey to be made 

 into Spaine, Italie, Barbarie, Egypt, Zante, Constantinople, the West 

 Indies, and to divers other places neerer and further off then any of 

 these ; yet, forasmuch as the poore are not able, and for that the rich 

 settled at home in quiet will not, therefore we are to make sute to 

 such as repaireth to forren kingdomes, for other businesses, to have 

 some care heerin, and to set before their eyes the examples of these 

 good men, and to endevour to do for their parts the like, as their special 

 businesses may permit the same. Thus giving you occasion, by way 

 of a little remembrance, to have a desire to do your countrey good, 



