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meet not every day in the same person. . . . Thomas Gibson. It is pity 

 to part him from the former, because symbolizing in many particulars of 

 concernment. 



fl. Bom in this county, and in the same town of Morpeth. 

 2. Flourishing at the selfsame time. 

 •p. ,, J 3. Pliysicians by profession; this Thomas did incredible cures of 

 disease. 



4. Writing of the same subject, the nature of hearbs. 



5. Professed enemies to Popery."* 



Thus far honest Thomas Fuller. 



It will be seen below that Dr. Turner lived several years after 

 the time when Fuller conjectures that he died^ and he was as 

 hostile to Popery as he was zealous for the Reformation. 



Industrious Anthony Wood^ who had no partiality for ultra- 

 Protestants, informs his readers that " he, Turner, was much 

 addicted to the opinions of Luther,'^ and that he was besides hot- 

 headed and meddlesome. This crabby early authority supplies 

 us with the following account of his death after enumerating some 

 of his works : — 



" After aU the rambles and troubles that our author Turner made and 

 did endure, he did quietly lay down his head and departed this life 7 July 

 in 1568. Whereupon his body was buried in the church of St. 01aves,f 

 in Hert Street, in London, leaving behind him several children." 



Dr. Bliss, the amiable commentator and editor of ' Athense 

 Oxonienses,' informs the readers that 



" He (Turner) married the daughter of George Ander, an Alderman of 

 Cambridge, who after the death of her first husband manied to Eichard 

 Cox, Bishop of Ely, and in her second widowhood did, in memory of her 

 first husband. Dr. Turner, leave to Pembroke Hall, in Cambridge, of which 

 he had been FeUow, an annuity of five merks, and some pasture lands in 

 Knap well." 



John Bale, the early literary historian, and Bishop of Ossory, 

 writes very forcibly in praise of our author. For example, he af- 

 firms that he was nowhere branded with the anti-Christian mark, 

 {nusquam characterizatus, hoc est, nee rasus, nee unctus, quod 

 auditu fit rarissimum,) " he had never received the tonsure, and 

 was not consecrated to be a priest." Hence it may be inferred 



* From Nichol's ed., 4to, 1811. Nuttall's ed. is word for word like Nichol's. 

 t Tanner adds to Wood's account, — " vel in ecclesia Crutched Friars (Strype, 

 in vita Parker)." 



