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He left two sons, Jacob and Tillemant. Tillemant became 

 a master coachman between Oxford and London, but having 

 had the misfortune to break his leg, became one of the bea- 

 dles of the university. In the preface to Mr. Nicholls's late 

 curious work on autographs, among other albums, in the 

 British Museum, it mentions that of David Krein, in which 

 is the autograph of Jacob Bobart, with these verses ; 



" virtus sua gloria. 



Think that day lost whose descending sun 

 Views from thy hand no noble action done. 



Yr success and happyness 



is sincerely wished by 



Ja. Bobart, Oxford." 



It appears from Ray's History of Plants, that Jacob Bobart, 

 the son, was a frequent communicator to him of scarce 

 plants. It was this son who published the second volume of 

 Morrison's Oxford History of Plants, who wrote its excellent 

 preface, and who engaged Burghers to engrave many of the 

 new plants; which engravings are highly commended by 

 Pulteney. Mr. Johnson, in page 1 48 of his History of Gar- 

 dening, thus pays Bobart a high compliment: "a phalanx 

 of botanists were then contemporaries, which previous ages 

 never equalled, nor succeeding ones surpassed. Ray, Tour- 

 nefort, Plumier, Plukenet, Commelin, Rivinus, Bobart, Peti- 

 ver, Sherard, Boccone, Linnaeus, may be said to have lived 

 in the same age." 



JAMES GARDINER. His portrait is engraved by Vertue, 

 from after Verelst, and prefixed to his translation of Rapin 

 on Gardens, Svo. second edition; no date. A third edition, 

 8vo. 1728. I believe he also wrote " On the Beatitudes;'* 

 2 vols. Svo. Switzer says, that this " incomparable Latin 

 poem was translated by an ingenious and worthily dignified 



