98 CHAPTER 8. 
Lord Zotichy whom he attended in 1592, 
in his embaffy to the court of Denmark. 
This tour furniflied him with further 
means of augmenting his knowledge in 
Botany; and^ through the correfpondence 
he formed there^of introducing mioJLngland 
feveral exotic rarities, before that time un- 
known to this country. He had thefuperin- 
tendance of a garden at Hackney, which he 
calls a [)hyfic»gardenp cultivated at the ex- 
pence of his patron. He. was afterwards 
ftiled Botanift to King Jamesy as appears 
by the imprimatur to the fecond edition of 
the Adverfaria ; and by his own letter 
prefixed to Gerard's ^'Herbal.'' Whether 
any emolument was annexed to this title, I 
am unable to decide. He had a daughter 
married to a Mr. "James Coel, who lived 
at Higbgate, near London ; and it is* pro- 
bable, from the very frequent mention that 
Lob EL makes of that place in his laft 
work, the Ulujt rat tones, that he refided in 
the latter years of his life with his fon-iii^ 
law. 
He died in 1616, aged 78. There was a; 
print of LoBEL, but it is very fcarce^ I have 
