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London, wliere he had a house ' in the crossed Fryers.' From this he dates 

 the Preface to the collected three parts of his Herhall, republished in one 

 volume early in 1568, and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, who had always 

 stood his powerful friend, even when suspended for nonconformity in 1564. 

 Upwards of 300 species are given as natives of England. 



He died on Julj' 7, in the same year, and was buried on the 9th, in the 

 south aisle of St. Olave's, Hart Street, Crutched Friars. A stone erected 

 by his widow is let into the corner of the east wall, on which the following 

 inscription is still easily legible : — 



CLARISSIMO . DOCTISSIMO . F O R T I S S I M O Q V E . VIRO . 

 GVLIELMO .TVRNERO . MED ICO . AC . THEOLOGICO . PERITISSI- 

 MO . DECANO WELLENSI . PER . ANNOS . TRiGINTA , IN . VTRAQVE . 

 SCIENTIA . EXERCITATISSIMVS . ECCLESI/E . ET . REI . PVBLIC/E . 

 PROFVIT . ET . CONTRA . VTRIVSQVE . PERNITIOSISSIMOS HOS- 



TES. MAXIM E.VERO. ROMANVM . ANTICHRISTVM.FORTISSIMVS. 

 JESV . CHRSTI . MILES . ACERRIME . DIMICAVIT . AC . TANDEM . COR- 

 PVS . SENIO . ET . LABORIBVS . CONFECTUM . IN . SPEM . BEATISSIM : 

 RESVRRECTION IS . HIC . DEPOSVIT . ANIMAM . IMMORTALEM . 

 CHARISSIMO . EIVSQVE . SANCTISSIMO . DEO . REDDIDIT . ET . DEVICTIS ; 

 CHRISTI . VIRTVTE . MVNDI . CARNISQVE . VIRIBVS . TRIVMPHAT . IN . /CTERNVM . 



MAGNVS . APOLLINEA . QVONDAM . TVRNERVS . IN. ARTE . 

 MAGNVS . ET . IN . VERA . RELIGIONE . FVIT. 

 MORS . T "> M E N . OBREPENS . MAIOREM . REDDIDIT . ILLVM . 

 CIVIS . ENIM . C>ELI . REGNA . SVPERNA . TENET . 



OBIIT . 7 . DIE . IVLM . AN . DOM 1568 



According to the Fasti Oxonicnscs, he married the daughter of George 

 Ander, an alderman of Cambridge. He left two daughters and a son, 

 Peter, who was also educated at Cambridge, took his M.D. at Heidelberg 

 in 1581, and incorporated at Oxford 1599 (where his son, also Peter, was 

 Greometry professor in 1849). At the end of the copy of Turner's Herhall, 

 in the library of the Linnaean Society, is a long printed list of errata and 

 corrigenda by the author's son. At the end he says, ' if it please God to 

 lend me lyfe & health,' he intended to have it reprinted, ' augmented and 

 increased,' from which it would appear that this Peter Turner had some 

 knowledge of botany. He died in 1614, and was buried, says the St. Olave's 

 register, ' Male 28 ... in ye south He of ye church, closs by his Father,' 

 where there is a handsome monument to his memory. 



The species observed and recorded by Turner in Middlesex are : Lepidium 

 campcstre, Hypericum quadrangulum, Spirrea Filipendida, Sanguisorba, 

 Skerardia, Anthemis nobilis, Onopordum, Tragopogon pratcnsis, Veronica 

 serpyllifolia, Mentha Pidcgium, Calamintha Clinopodium, Daphne Latireola, 

 Euphorbia amygdaloides, Mcrcurialis annua, Spiranthes autumnalis and 

 Endymion nutans. 



Of Turner as a theological controversialist this is not the place to speak ; 

 he was the author of many anti-Romish tracts, the titles of some of which 

 now seem somewhat amusing. It was, no doubt, this facility of writing 

 which made him so much an object of persecution by the Eoman Catholics. 



