The History Chap. i. 



of that Prince, to eternize his Memory, and 

 make him appear to the World as great a 

 Gardiner as he was a Soldier. But I return 

 to the Nobility and Gentry in King Charles 

 the lid's and King James the lid's time, and 

 take a View of what they have done herein. 



And firft, I (hall make fome Remarks on 

 the Botanick Part of Gard'ning, and therein 

 of the Pbyfick'Garden at Oxford^ &c. 



The Pitch to which Botanick Knowledge 

 w^as, even before this Time, arrived, muft 

 not efcape our Notice. The laborious Works 

 of Gerard and his Commentator Johnfon, of 

 Mv.ParkinJcn and Ray^ deferve our utmoft 

 Tribute of Thanks ^ as likewife to Mr. Rea, 

 the Author of Flora^ Ceres and Pomona^ the 

 practical and plain Method in which he has 

 delivered his Precepts, are admirable 5 but 

 all is crown'd in the Phyfick-Garden at Ox- 

 ford^ (as it is fet down in The Prejent State 

 of Great-Britain^ 



" Among the feveral noble Strudures and 

 ^^ great Conveniences of Learning (fays that 

 *^ Author) wherewith this famous Univerfity 

 *' is adorned, this of the Phyfick-Garden^ placed 

 *' by the River Charwel^ claims not the leafl: 

 " Place, founded, built, and the Donation 

 *' thereof made to the Univerfity, in the 

 " Year 1632, by the munificent Benefaftion 

 " o{ Henry Danvers Earl oiDanby^ then li- 

 ^'' ving at his Houfe in Cornhury^ who pur* 

 *' chas'd five Acres of Ground South of 

 t- % Mary Magdalen's, and thereon ereded 



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