"Author of the Catalogue of Plants in the neighbourhood of Nottingham.
'Catalogus Stirpium, &c., or a Catalogue of Plants naturally growing
and commonly cultivated in divers parts of England, and especially
about Nottingham,' 8vo. Nottingh. 1738.
"He was in the suite of the English ambassador to Russia, returned and
practised physic in London married unfortunately, buried his wife,
and then went to Nottingham, where he lived several years. During
his abode there he wrote a small _Treatise on the Small Pocks_, this
_Catalogue of Plants_, and the _History of Nottingham_, the materials
for which John Plumtre, Esq. of Nottingham, was so obliging as to
assist him with. He also was paid 40l. by a London bookseller for
adding 20,000 words to an English dictionary. He was master of seven
languages, and in 1746 he was favoured with a commission in the
Nottinghamshire Foot, raised at that time. Soon after died, and was
buried in St. Peter's Churchyard.
"William Ayscough, father of the printer of this _Catalogus Stirpium_
(G. Ayscough), in 1710, first introduced the art of printing at
Nottingham.
"Mr. White was the same year the first printer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne;
and Mr. Dicey at Northampton."--_MS. Note in the Copy of the Cat.
Stirpium, in the Library of the British Museum_.
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