I2S C H A P T E R 10. 
enemy, headed by that notorious rebel; 
*^ Colonel Richard Norton^ he received a 
fhot in the flioulder, of which he died in 
a fortnight after. At which time his 
worth did juftly challenge funeral tears ; 
being then no lefs eminent in the garri- 
fon for his valour and condudl as a fol- 
dier, than famous through the kingdom 
for his excellency as an herbalift and 
*^ phyfician." 
I have mentioned Johnfon's Iter Can^ 
. tianuniy and Ericetum Hamjiedianum ; but 
not having feen either, I can give no ac- 
count of them. 
In 1633, he publifhed his improved edi- 
tion of Gerard, under the title of " The 
Herbal, or General History of 
Plants, gathered by John GEkARD, 
of Londmy very much enlarged and a- 
mended by Thomas Johnson, citizen and 
apothecary of London^ for Iflip and Nor- 
*^ ton/' 1633. fol. ; and again 1636. pp. ^ 
1630. 
An interval of thirty-fix years, from the 
date of Gerard's work, had effedled a great 
change in the ftate of botanical knowledge; 
" many 
