24 CHAPTER 2, 
whom Tanner reprefents as eminent for 
his knowledge in natural philofophy, wrote 
De Arbor urn Plantationey lib. 3. De Gene-- 
ratione Arbor um et mo do Generandi et Plan^ 
tandiy lib. 2.' and other tradls now in ma- 
nufcript. 
There is a manufcript faid to be preferved 
in Baliol college, written by Johannes de 
S. Paulo, T>e Virtutibus Sirnpliciiim Mcdi^ 
cinarim. The age of thefe two laft is not 
fufficientlv afcertained : neither is that of a 
manufcript in Cains and Gonville college. 
Cant, entitled Cinomia (Synonymia) Her-- 
harum. 
The following authors, who wrote, at 
leaft prior to the introdudion of printing 
into England, are enumerated, by Bifliop 
fanner y and others. 
Hcnriciis Calcoensis, a prior of the 
Benedidline order, is faid, by Deinpjier^ tQ 
have travelled into Fra?2ce^ Germany, and 
Italy, folely to enjoy the converfation of 
the learned. He wrote Synopfa Herba-^ 
ria. Lib. i. and tranflated Pall adius de 
re Rujiica, into the Scottifh tongue, about 
the year 1493* 
WilUam 
