"To Mr. Claud Joseph, Geoffroy, Apothecary Chymist and Fellow of ye Academy Royall in Paris." "To Mr. Charles Du-Bois, Treasurer of the East India Company." "To the Honourable Dr. William Sherard, Consul of Smyrna." "To Captain Jonathan Whicker for Divers Shells from St. Christophers." "To his Curious Friend, Mr. John Smart, Surgeon, For Divers Plants, etc., from Hudson's Bay." "To his kind Friend, Capt. George Searle for divers Antego Shells, Coralls, etc." "To Capt. Thomas Grigg at Antego in gratitude for divers Insects, Shells, etc." "To that very obliging Gentlewoman, Madam Hannah Williams at Carolina." FOOTNOTES: [86] _Joyfull Newes out of the newe founde worlde wherein is declared the rare and singular vertues of diuerse and sundrie Hearbes, etc._ See Bibliography of English Herbals, p. 211. Nicolas Monardes was a Spanish doctor living in Seville and his book was written in 1569 (see p. 231). [87] Published in London. See Bibliography, p. 217. CHAPTER VI JOHN PARKINSON, THE LAST OF THE GREAT ENGLISH HERBALISTS "For truly from all sorts of Herbes and Flowers we may draw matter at all times not only to magnifie the Creator that hath given them such diversities of formes sents and colours, that the most cunning Worke man cannot imitate, and such vertues and properties, that although wee know many, yet many more lye hidden and unknowne, but many good instructions also to ourselves. That as many herbes and flowers with their fragrant sweet smels doe comfort, and as it were revive the spirits and perfume a whole house: even so such men as live vertuously, labouring to doe good and profit the Church of God and the Commonwealth by their paines or penne, doe as it were send forth a pleasing savour of sweet instructions, not only to that time wherein they live, and are fresh, but being drye, withered and dead, cease not in all after ages to doe as much or more."--JOHN PARKINSON, _Paradisus_, 1629.