The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700
Henry Hyde (2 Jun 1638 - 31 Oct 1709)
Alias Second Earl of Clarendon (Alias)
Alias Lord Cornbury
Henry Hyde was a son of Edward Hyde (1609-1674)
References in Documents:
o. Hen. Com. Clarendon.
CornberyChancelorVice-ChancellorFellChrist-ChurchBarlow
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Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensisof that year; it contains nothing that can be identified as a locust-tree. In
SylvaEvelyn mentions the lotus (ed. 1664, p. 58); longer notice in later editions) but not the locust (
Diary, ed. de Beer, vol. 3, p. 386, n. 5)
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Catalogusof 1658. The plane is sometimes said to have been introduced by Bacon; it was evidently still very rare; Evelyn was given a specimen by Sir George Croke to whom he attributes its successful introduction: see successive notices in
Sylva, 1664, p. 58. (
Diary, ed. de Beer, vol. 3, p. 386, n. 6)
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