80 THE OLD ENGLISH HERBALS 



CLARISSIMO . DOCTISSIMO . FORTISSIMOQUE . VIRO | GULIELMO . 



TURNERO . MEDICO . AC . THEOLOGICO . PERITISSI | MO . 

 DEC AN O . WELLENSI . PER . ANNOS . TRIGINTA . IN . VTRAQUE | 

 SCIENTIA . EXERCITATISSIMVS . ECCLESIAE . ET . REI . PUBLICAE j 

 PROFVIT . ET . CONTRA . VTRIVSQUE . PERNITIOSISSIMOS . HOS | 

 TES . MAXIME . VERO . ROMANUM . ANTICHRISTVM . FORTISSIMUS j 

 JESU . CHRISTI . MILES . ACERRIME . DIMICAVIT . AC . TANDEM . 

 COR | PUS . SENIO . ET . LABORIBUS . CONFECTVM . IN . SPEM . 

 BEATISSIM : | 



RESVRRECTIONIS . HIC . DEPOSVIT . ANIMAM . IMMORTALEM | 

 CHARISSIMO . EIVSQUE . SANCTISSIMO . DEO . REDDIDIT . ET . 

 DEVICTIS . CHRISTI . VIRTUTE . MVNDI . CARNISQUE . VIRIBUS . 

 TRIUMPHAT IN AETERNUM . 



MAGNVS . APOLLINEA . QVONDAM . TVRNERVS . IN . ARTE 



MAGNUS . ET . IN . VERA . RELIGIONE . FVIT . 



MORS . TAMEN . OBREPENS . MAIOREM . REDDIDIT ILLVM . 



CIVIS . ENIM . CAELI . REGNA . SVPERNA . TENET 



OBIIT . 7 DIE . IVLII . AN . DOM . 1568 . 



In his will, which is too long to quote here, Turner bequeathed 

 to his wife l " his best pece or syluer vessell and halfe dozen of 

 syluer spones," and to his nephew " my lyttell furred gowne." 

 Peter, the son to whom he left " all my writen bookes and if he 

 be a preacher all my diuinitie bookes, & yf he practise Phisicke 

 all my physicke bookes," had some knowledge of plants, for in 

 a copy of Turner's Herbal in the Linnean Society's Library 

 there is a long list of errata for which Peter Turner apologised 

 in an Address to the Reader. There is something very naive 

 and charming about Peter's admiration for his father's " fame 

 and estimation." He tells us that he has diligently compared 

 the printed book with his father's " owne hande copie," and 

 refrains from having the whole book printed again because " I 



1 Turner's widow subsequently married Richard Cox, who became Bishop 

 of Ely. She founded a scholarship at Cambridge in memory of her first 

 husband. 



