William Howe

son of Will. Howe, was born in London, educated in Merchant Taylors School, became a Commoner of S. Johns Coll. in 1637, and in that of his age 18, or thereabouts, took the degrees in Arts, entred upon the Physick line, bore Arms for his Maj. King Ch. 1. in Oxon, at what time the generality of Scholars then remaining in the University did the like; and being very forward in expressing his Loyalty, was afterwards made Captain of a Troop of Horse. But upon the declining of his Majesties Cause, he desisted, prosecuted his study in Physick, retired to London, practised that Faculty, first in S. Laurence Lane, and then in Milkstreet, and was commonly called by the name of Doctor Howe. This person being a noted Herbalist or Simpler of his time, wrot and published,

Phytologia Britannica, natales exhibens indiginarum stirpium sponte emergentium. Lond. 1650. oct. and obtained, co [•] rected and published a book of Mathew de L’obell the Kings Botanist, intit. Stirpium illustrationes; plurimas elaborantes inauditas plantas, subreptitiis Jo. Parkinsoni rapsodiis (ex codice Ms. insalutato) sparsim gravatae, &c. Lond. 1655. qu. before which our Author Howe put an Epistle to the Reader. He died in his house in Milkstreet in the month of Aug. or beginning of Sept. in sixteen hundred fifty and six,1656. and was buried, according to his will, I suppose, in the Church of S. Margaret within the City of Westminster, in a grave at least six foot deep, on the left side of the body of his Mother. He left behind him a choice Library of books of his Faculty, but how they were bestowed I cannot tell.