"Ante annos 15, aut circiter cum Anglicus ex Italia rediens me salutaret (Turnerus) is fuerit vir excellentis tum in re medica tum aliis plerisque disciplinis doctrinae aut alius quisquam vix satis memini."--_De Herbis Lunariis_, 1555.
[63] The Duke of Somerset was himself keenly interested in botanical investigations, and Turner frequently refers to the Duke's garden. It was during this time that Turner had his own garden at Kew. That he sat in the House of Commons is generally supposed from a passage in his _Spiritual Physik_, and this view is sustained by the character of the Hunter in his _Romish Wolfe_.
[64] It has been asserted in some accounts of Turner that he was a Canon of Windsor, but this is a mistake. The Canon of Windsor was Richard Turner, also a Protestant, and, like the herbalist, exiled during Mary's reign.
[65] Turner's widow subsequently married Richard Cox, who became Bishop of Ely. She founded a scholarship at Cambridge in memory of her first husband.
[66] It was for the same reason that Henry Lyte's translation of Dodoens was printed abroad.
[67] Pierandrea Mattioli (1501-1577) was physician successively to the Archduke Ferdinand and to the Emperor Maximilian II. With the exception of Fabio Colonna he was the greatest of the Italian herbalists.
[68] This was probably the John Falconer who sent English plants to Amatus Lusitanus, who taught physic at Ferrara and Ancona, and whose commentary on Dioscorides was published in 1553.
[69] Queen Elizabeth's love of gardening and her botanical knowledge were celebrated in a long Latin poem by an Italian who visited England in 1586 and wrote under the name of Melissus (see _Archæologia_, VII. 120).
[70] Parkinson in his _Theatrum Botanicum_ also mentions this use of bearfoot.
[71] He studied medicine at Montpelier under Guillaume Rondelet, who bequeathed him his botanical manuscripts. D'Aléchamps, Pena and Jean Bauhin, all famous herbalists, were also pupils of Rondelet.
[72] For full title see Bibliography of Herbals, p. 210.
[73] This manuscript, now in the Vienna Library, was bought from a Jew in Constantinople for 100 ducats by Auger-Geslain Busbecq, when he was on a mission to Turkey.
[74] On one of his visits to England de l'Escluse met Sir Francis Drake, who gave him plants from the New World.