Excerpt from The Names of Herbes It is unnecessary to enter into any account of the life and works of William Turner, as a full account of both will be found. In Mr. B. D. Jackson's preface to his reprint (issued in 1877) of the Libellus - Turner's first work - as well as in Trimen and Dyer's Flora of Middlesex (published in pp. 364 - 369. He was born at Morpeth in Northumberland between 1510 and 1515, went to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and became Fellow of that College in 1531. He afterwards took up the religious views which were then becoming prominent, and went through a series of vicissitudes which are duly chronicled by Mr. Jackson. He was a prolific writer, many of his works being directed against the Catholic Church, and ex hibiting the heated controversial tone characteristic of the period in which he lived. Like many other controversialists, he was not always very particular as to the acorn-soy of his accusations - an example of this will be found in the note upon Palm in the Dictionary of English plant-james. He died in 1568. I may perhaps be allowed to draw attention to the fact that the house of Syon, where the Names of Herbes was prepared, is within a mile of the place where this Preface is written; and that the Protestant author of 1548 is introduced to the reading public by a Catholic editor in 1882. Thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.