In 1676 the Society of Apothecaries acquired the remainder of a lease of a garden at Westminster belonging to Mrs. Gape, presumably the widow of the Master in 1672. This lease expired in 1678, and the Society had the option of removing the plants to Chelsea. In 1677 the Court Book of the Society contains a reference to a Mr. Morgan who claims consideration for his plants (Barrett, 1905), whence it has been assumed that he was Edward Morgan of the Westminster Physic Garden, and that he may have exercised some supervision over the Chelsea Garden in its early stages. This latter suggestion seems unlikely. The Quaker botanist, the Rev. Thomas Lawson, visited Edward Morgan at Westminster in 1677, and listed in his “Notebook” some of the plants which he found growing there (Raven, 1948). He names nearly five hundred plants, so that the Westminster Garden was still well stocked, while, at Chelsea, one Piggott was appointed the first gardener in or about 1677. Proving unsatisfactory, he was replaced by James Watts in 1678, the year in which Mrs. Gape’s lease of her Westminster garden expired. The “Books of Accompt” for the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, are extant, and show that in 1676 Mrs. Gape does not appear among those leasing property in Westminster. On the whole it would appear that the Society of Apothecaries did not acquire the lease of the Westminster Physic Garden, and that Edward Morgan was still there in 1678 (107).