66 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



hys lewys arn eu^rmore grene & neu^r more falty as techy 

 bokes of fysik and ek bokys of skole of sallerne wrot to ye 

 countess of hernaunde and sche sente ye copy to byre 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 Dietarium 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. 



We find Palladius still 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. 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." Another MS, of the fifteenth century known as 



the Porkington Treatise, has a few pages devoted to grafting 



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



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



