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Clarendon. The total cost to Lord Danby exceeded ,5,000. 

 He only had time to have the land planted with " divers simples 

 for the advancement of the faculty of medicine " when the out- 

 break of the Civil Wars stopped his munificent designs for 

 the encouragement of botanical science, and, it is said, John 

 Tradescant from becoming our Gardener. On his death, on 

 January 20, 1644-5, ^ was found that he had devised to the 



Porter's Lodge 



THE DANBY GATE, 1830 



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University the rectory of Kirkdale in Yorkshire, for the use of 

 the Garden ; and his brother, Sir John Danvers, endeavoured 

 to effect an arrangement by which the Garden should be kept in 

 order, and the Professor and gardener receive a stipend, out 

 of the revenues of the said estate. Owing, nevertheless, to 

 the unsettled state of the times, and to the want of sufficient 

 funds from the estate, which turned out less valuable than 

 had been thought, no step was taken towards the settle- 



