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could receive in thefe purfuits, Being 
yet a ftudent of Pembroke hall, whereas 
I could learn never one Greke, neither 
Latin, nor Englifli name, even amongft 
" the phyficians, of any herbe or tree : fuch 
" v^as the ignorance at that time ; and as 
yet there vv^as no Englifli Herbal, but one 
*^ all full of unlearned cacographies and 
falfely naming of herbes." 
At Cambridge^ Turner imbibed the 
principles of the reformers, and afterv^ards, 
agreeably to the pradtice of many others, 
united, to the charafterof the phyfician, that 
of the divine. He became a preacher, tra- 
velling into many parts of Englandy and 
propagated, w^ith fo much zeal, the caufe; 
of the reformation, that he excited perfe-* 
cution from Bifliop Gardiner, He wa§ 
thrown into prifon, and detained a confi- 
derable time. On his enlargement, he fub-^ 
mitted to voluntary exile, during the re^ 
mainder of the reign of Henry VIII, 
This banifliment proved favourable to 
his advancement in medical and botanical 
fludies ; he refided at Bafil, at Strq/hurgh^ 
at Bonn 5 but principally at Cokgn^ with 
many 
