Of grace and mercy make hym then expert."

The treatise on herbs formed, as we have seen, only a part of
Bartholomew's _De Proprietatibus Rerum_, and, to speak strictly, the
first printed English herbal was the small quarto volume published by
Richard Banckes in 1525. It was the beginning of a series of small
books[45] chiefly in black letter. All of them, though issued from
different presses, have nearly the same title, and they vary only
slightly from the original _Banckes's Herbal_. The title of this
Herbal is--

"Here begynneth a new mater / the whiche sheweth and |
treateth of ye vertues & proprytes of her- | bes / the
whiche is called | an Herball ['.'] |