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hearbes and other rootes. ' The Householder's Philosophic ', 

 first written in Italian by that excellent orator and poet, Signior 

 Torquato Tasso, and now translated by T. K? London, 1588. 



\A7HEREFORE brotherly love compelleth me to wryte thrugh PETER 



ye gyftes of the holy gost, shewynge and enformynge how TREVERIS 

 man may be holpen to grene herbes of the gardyn, and wedys of 

 ye feldys as well as by costly receptes of the potycarys prepayred. 



The grete herball 



whiche geveth parfyt knowledge, and understandyng of all maner 

 of herbes <3 they re gracyous vertues whiche god hath ordeyned for 

 our prosperous welfare and helth, for they hele and cure all manner 

 of dyseases and sekenesses that fall or mysfortune to all manner of 

 creatours of god created, practysed by many expert and wyse maysters 

 as Avicenna 6 other etc. Also it geveth full parfyte understandynge 

 of the booke lately printed by me (Peter Treveris] named the noble 

 experiens of the vertuous hand warke of surgery. Imprinted at 

 London in Southwarke. MDXXVI. 



Famous Antiquary to Henry VIII, who commissioned Jiim to search after JOHN 

 England's antiquities and peruse the libraries of cathedrals, abbeys, colleges LELAND 

 and other places, * where records and the secrets of antiquity were deposited' or Laylonde 

 travelled through England and Wales for six or seven years and embodied ( I 5v- 

 the results in his ' New Years Gift ' to the King. His ' Itinerary ' was pub- 

 lished by Thomas Hearne in nine vols,, at Oxford 1710-12. 



HPHE Gardens within the mote, and the orchardes without, 



1 were exceeding fair. And yn the orchardes were mounts, 



opere toptario, 1 writhen about with degrees like the turnings in 



1 According to Mr Hudson Turner, ' mounts ' in English gardens date 

 from the period of the connexion of England with Burgundy in the 1 5th 

 century. They were contrived to enable persons in the orchard to look 

 over the enclosure wall, and were formed of stone, or wood ' curiously 

 wrought within and without, or of earth covered with fruit trees,' as Lawson, 

 ' the Isaac Walton of gardeners,' tells us. 



The topiary art (opus topiariuni) came into practice in this country at the 

 beginning of the i6th century. Archaeological Journal, Vol. V. 



