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a garden well ftored with rarities. In fad, 
he rofe to fuch a degree of reputation as to 
be appointed apothecary to King ya/nes; 
and at the publication of his Theatre of 
Plants/' he obtained, as we learn by Sic 
Theodore Mayerne's commendatory letter 
prefixed to it, the title from Charles the 
Firft of Botanicus Regius Pri?narius, The 
time of his death I cannot afcertain j but, 
as his Herbal'* was publifhed in 1640^ 
and he appears to be living at that time, 
he muft have attained his 73d year. There 
is a print of him prefixed to his Faradijusy 
in the 62d year of his age, and a fmall 
oval one, in the title of his Herbal,'* or 
Theatre of Plants/* 
His firft publication was the " Para- 
Disi inSole ParadisusTerrestrisj 
or, a garden ofall forts of pleafant flowers, 
which our Englifh ayre will permit to be 
nurfed up : with a kitchen garden of all 
manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for 
meat or faufe, ufed with us, and an or- 
chard of all forteof fruit -bearing trees and 
flirubbes fit for our land ^ together with 
f * the right ordering, planting, and preferv- 
