( I 
c fit A p. Id. 
Johnfon the improver Gerard's i^ook- — Anecdotes 
of — His Iter in Agrum Cantianum the Jirfi 
Englifh local catalogue — Enters into the kings 
armyy and is killed at the fiege (?/Bafing — Ilis 
edition i?/ Gerard — Mercuriiis Botanicus — Ver-* 
fion c/Parey^s zvorks. 
Qontem-porary ajfifiants — Goodyer — Bov/les 
Tunftai — Glyn — Morgan* 
J O H N S 0 K. 
^HOMAS Johnson v/as born at Sel-^ 
by, in Torkjhire^ and bred an apothe- 
cary in hondon. He afterwards kept a 
iliop on Snow-lTiIU where, by his un- 
wearied pains, advanced with good natu- 
" ral parts/' fays Mr. V/oody " he attained 
to be the bed herbalill of his age in Eng^ 
land J'* 
He was firPc announced to the public, by 
a fmall piece under the title of Iter in 
Agrum Cantianum, 1629; Eri- 
CETUivE Hamstedianum, 1632 : whicli 
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