ilO' CHAPTER 9. 
hands ^ who has been cenfured for having 
endeavoured to conceal his poffeffing thefe 
papers, and for affuming to himfelf the me-, 
rit of the tranflation, v/hen it is generally 
agreed, that his knowledge of the Latia 
language was not equal to fuch an under^ 
taking. LoBEL, indeed, judged the fame 
of Dr. Priest, and points out inftances of 
his inlufEciencv. It muft, however, be al- 
lowed, that Gerard is not backward in 
confeiling his want of fkill in the learned 
languages- LoBel farther informs us, that 
when the work was in the prefs, and that 
part of the firft boqk printed relating tq 
graffes^ his friend, "James Garet, a perfoa 
eminently ikilled in flowers and exotics, ad« 
|noni£l:^ed Norton of fome grofs errors 3 on 
which, the printer engaged Lob el to fu-. 
perintend the work \ that he actually did 
corre£l it " iu a thoufand places and that 
there were many other miflakes, which 
Gerard would not allow him %o alter^ 
alleging that it was fufficiently corredl, and 
that Lobel had forgotten the Englif}^ 
lano:ua9'e." ^ 
Iri order farther to conceal his plagiarifirL, 
LoBEL 
