THE “HERBE GREWE IN REPUTATION.” 85 
gentleman from the fields being father unto one of the pages 
of the said Lord ambassador, who was troubled with an ulcer 
in his legge of two years continuance, and craved of the said 
Lord some of his herbe, and using it in manner afore men- 
tioned, he was healed by the end of ten or twelve daies. 
After this yet the herbe grewe still in greater reputation, 
inasmuch as that many hasted out of all corners to get some 
of this herbe. And among the rest, there was one woman 
which had a great ring worme, covering all her face like a 
mask, and having taken deepe roote, to whom the said Lord 
caused this Petum to be given, and withall the manner of 
using it to be told her, and at the end of eight or ten daies, 
this woman being thoroughly cured, came to shewe herself 
moto the said Lord, and "ioe that she was cured. There 
came likewise a captain bringing with him his son diseased 
with the king’s evill, unto the said Lord Ambassador, for to 
send him into France, upon whom there was some triall 
made of the said herbe, whereupon within four daies he 
began to show great signs and tokens of healing, and in the 
end was thoroughly cured of his king’s evil.” 
Italy received the first plant from Santa Croce,* who, like 
Nicot, obtained the seed in Lisbon. In 1575 first appeared a 
figure of the plant in Andre Theret’s “ Cosmographie,” 
which was but an imperfect representation of the plant. It 
was supposed by many on its discovery to grow like the 
engraving given—in form resembling a tree or shrub rather 
than an herb. Tobacco was first brought to England by Sir 
John Hawkins, who obtained the plant in Florida in 1565, 
and afterwards by Sir Francis Drake.t The first planters of 
it in England were said to be Captain Grenfield and Sir 
Francis Drake. One account of its introduction into Eng- 
land is as follows: 
“The plant was first used by Sir Walter Raleigh and 
others, who had acquired a taste for it in Virginia.t| Among 
while Moll Cat Puree, a neted plekpockes whe fourigued ts the time of Charies Iie ts ssid 
to have been the first Englishwoman who smoked tobacco. 
tlt was introduced, about 1520, into Portugal and Spain by Doctor Hernandez of Toledo; 
into Italy by Thornabon ahd the Cardinal de Sainte-Croif, into England by Captain Drake! 
re en b f eh Theret, a gray friar.”—Le Mao us and Decaisne's General System 
$Short says of its introduction into England: “Sir Walter Raleigh's Marriners, under Mr. 
thal famous Propiicter of this Plantation fereesiy. Bod reasone to. ineroduee the use of It, 
however King James might afterwards, through his own personal Distaste both of it and, 
, Wrote his Counterbiast against it; a work surely consistent with thc Pen of no Prince, 
but one of hig Politicks.” 
