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countess of hernaunde and sche sente ye copy to hyre dowter 

 phelyp qwen of Ingelond.""^ This, of course, was Philippa 

 of Hainhault, wife of Edward III., and it is interesting to note 

 that there is a MS. in the British Museum, t with the following 

 title :—" Chiburn on the virtues of Ros maryn written at the 

 command of the Countess of Henawd who sent the copy to 

 her daughter Phylyp, Queen of England." 



Another medical work, by " the venerable doctor. Master 

 Gilbert Kymer," is a treatise addressed to Humphrey, Duke of 

 Gloucester, entitled Dietariwn de Sanitatis Custodia. Kymer 

 gives a list of herbs to be put in potage, that the Duke 

 might safely take, also full instructions as to what fruits 

 could be taken before meals and what others after. This list 

 includes, besides the commonest fruits, damsons, strawberries, 

 figs, medlars, and peaches, and also foreign fruits and spices. A 

 list of plants with Latin, English and French equivalents was 

 made by John Bray, a physician and Botanist, in receipt of a 

 yearly pension of loo* from William, Earl of Salisbury, and then 

 from Richard II. His work Synononul de noininibiis herbarum J 

 contains a good collection of names alphabetically arranged. 



We find Palladius as much translated in the fifteenth, as he 

 had been in the thirteenth, century. There is no clue to the author 

 of the English version, of which a manuscript dating from about 

 1420 exists at Colchester ; § but the name and work of another 

 translator, of the same date, have been preserved. He was 

 a monk of Westminster, named Nicholas Bollard, and either 

 himself translated direct from Palladius, or transcribed or 

 translated through " Godfrey," the parts of the work on 

 husbandry, relating to grafting, planting, and sowing. Robert 

 Salle also re-issued part of the same work.|| Another MS. of 



* Arcliceologia, Vol. XXX. f Sloane, No, 7, Sec. 5. 



X Sloane MS. 282 (24), page 167 v. to 173 v. 



§ Printed E. Eng. Text Soc, ed. by S. T. H. Herrtage, 



II The MS. in the British Museum, containing the work by Salle, ends 

 thus : — " Here endeth the telyng of trees after Godfray upon paladie and her 

 begynneth the tretis of Nicholas Bollard." Then follows the chapter on ''the 

 manner of settyng of trees," and grafting, at the end of which it is stated, 

 " here endeth the chapter of the first partie of Godfray upon Paladie de 

 Agricultura." 



