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hearbes and other rootes. — ' The Householder's Philosophie, 

 Urst written ift Italiaii by that excellent orator and poet, Signior 

 Torquato Tasso, and now translated by T. K' London, 1588. 



WHEREFORE brotherly love compelleth me to wryte thrugh PETER 

 ve gvftes of the holy gost, shewynge and enformynge how TREVERIS 



J c>j J <^ ' J y-> jj .{circa 1510;. 



man may be holpen to grene herbes of the gardyn, and wedys ot 

 ye feldys as well as by costly receptes of the potycarys prepayred. 



The grete herball 

 whiche geveth parfyt knowledge, and understandyng of all maner 

 of herbes c^' theyre gracyous vertues whiche god hath ordeyned for 

 our prosperous welfare and helth, for they hele a7id cure all manner 

 of dyseases afid sekenesses that fall or mysfortune to all manner of 

 creatours of god created, practysed by many expert and ivyse maysters 

 as Avicenna <^ other etc. Also it geveth full parfyte understandynge 

 of the booke lately printed by m,e {Peter Treveris) named the noble 

 experiens of the vertuous hafid warke of surgery. — Imprinted at 

 London in Southwarke. MDXXVI. 



— fsr\j\l\f. — 



Famous Antiquary to Henry VIII, who commissioned him to search «//^'' JOHN 

 England's antiquities and peruse the libraries of cathedrals, abbeys, colleges LELAND— 

 and other places, 'where records and the secrets of antiquity were deposited' or Laylonde 



travelled through England and Wales for six or seven years and embodied ^^J° ' 55 ^ 



the results in his ' New Years Gift ' to the King. I/is ' Itinerary ' was pub- 

 lished by Thomas Hearne in nine vols., at Oxford 1 710- 12. 



THE Gardens within the mote, and the orchardes without, 

 were exceeding fair. And yn the orchardes were mounts, 

 opere topiario} writhen about with degrees like the turnings in 



1 According to Mr Hudson Turner, ' mounts ' in English gardens date 

 from the period of the connexion of England with Burgundy in the 15th 

 century. They were contrived to enable persons in the orchard to look 

 over the enclosure wall, and were formed of stone, or wood 'curiously 

 wrought within and without, or of earth covered with fruit trees,' as Lawson, 

 ' the Isaac Walton of gardeners,' tells us. 



The topiary art {opus topiarium) came into practice in this country at the 

 beginning of the i6th century. — Archceological fournal. Vol. V. 



