80 



1. Mr. Gerrasp Markham. A small oral, in the title of his 

 *' Perfect Horseman." 8vo, 



2, Mr. Gervase Markham. Enlarged from the above. B. 



Reading. So. 8vo. T. Rodd. exc. 



163S. In 'this year, Dr. Thomas Johnson, edited a new edition 

 of Gerarde's Herbal, Folio, of which edition Haller, says, 

 *' Dignum opus, et totius rei herbarice eo aevo notos, com- 

 pendium." 



Sir HENRY WOTTON, was born at Bocton Hall, Kent, in 

 15G8. — Fiom a Tutor at home he was sent early to Winchester 

 School. At a fit age he became a Commoner of New College, 

 Oxford, where he continued until his eighteenth year, and was 

 then transplanted to Queen's College, and the same year wrote 

 his Tragedy of Tancred. At twenty he proceeded. M. A — at 

 which time he gained much distinction for his three Latin Lec- 

 tures de Oculo. At the age of twenty four he commenced his 

 travels, which he continued nearly nine years, in France, Ger- 

 many, and Italy. — He returned to England when about thirty — 

 was in exile as a parti zan of the Earl of Essex— returned in 

 the reign of James the I. and was three times Ambassador at 

 the Court of Venice, — and several times to various of the 

 German Princes. In 1624 he was appointed Provost of Eton 

 College, of which office he died in the possession, December, 

 1639.— 



He chiefly deserves notice here on account of his casual 

 remarks upon Gardening, in his Essay on the Elements of 

 Architecture. He is most unaccountably superficial and slight- 

 ing in his animadversions upon a proper scite for building a 

 house upon — for after giving the warning opinions of several 

 predecessors he adds " But such Notes as these wheresoever 

 we find them in grave or slight authors, are to my conceit 



