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A Notice of some rare Books by Morpeth Authors, contained 

 in the Library of the Morpeth Mechanics' Institution. 

 By Mr James Fergusson, Morpeth. 



In tlie library of Morpeth Mechanics' Institution there is a 

 small collection of rare and interesting works by Morpeth 

 authors. They were given by William Woodman, Esq., Stob- 

 hill, as part of a memorial gift by the Barony of Morpeth, in re- 

 membrance of George W. F., seventh earl of Carlisle. They are 

 as follows : — 



" A New Hebball, wherin are conteyned the names of Herbes 

 in Greke, Latin, English, Duch, Frenche, and in the Potecaries 

 and Herbaries Latin, with the Properties, Degrees, and Naturall 

 places of the same, gathered and made by Wylliam Turner 

 Phisicion unto the Duke of Somersettes Grace. Imprinted at 

 London by Steven Mierdman, Anno 1551. Cum priuilegio ad 

 impremendum solum. And they are to be solde in Paulles 

 Churchyarde. 



"The Seconde Parte of UUilliam Turners herball, wherin 

 are conteyned the names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Duche, 

 Frenche, and in the Apothecaries Latin, and somtyme in Italiane, 

 wyth the vertues of the same herbes, wyth diuerse confutationes 

 of no small errours, that men of no small learning have committed 

 in the intreatinge of herbes of late yeares. 



" Hereunto is ioyned also a booke of the bath of Baeth in Eng- 

 lande, and of the vertues of the same with diuerse other bathes 

 most holsum and effectual, boLh in Almany and Englande, set 

 f urth by William Turner Doctor of Physic. Imprinted at Collen 

 by Arnold Birckman. In the yeare of our Lorde MDLXII. 



"A Booke op the Natures and properties, as well of the 

 bathes in England as of other bathes in Germany and Italy, very 

 necessary for all seik persones that cannot be healed without the 

 helpe of natural bathes, gathered by William Turner Doctor of 

 Physik. Imprinted at Collen in the year of our Lorde MDLXII." 



"The Names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duche and 

 Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries 

 use. Gathered by William Turner." 



The former of these two volumes is a handsome well-preserved 

 folio, and includes the first and second parts of the Herbal and 

 the Book of the Baths. The late Sir Walter C. Trevelyan, Bart., 



