340 LEONARD PLUKENET. 



1685. May 26. Brooke Plukenett cL* to Dr. Leonard by Letitia. 



1686. Aug. 20. Walldroon Plukenett d. to Dr. Leourd. by Letitia. 



1687. Dec. 22. Hugh Plukenett s. to Dr. Leonard by Letitia. 



Among the burials there are three of Elizabeth Plucknett, 

 dated April 4, 1679 ; January, 17, 1681-2 ; and September 3, 

 1683 ; one of these may have been our author's mother, but his 

 daughter of that name survived him (see his will below). We 

 can more readily identify some of these : — 



1680. Nov. 24. Allan Plukenett. 



1685. March 26. Sophia Plukenett. 



1688. Dec. 6. Waldron Plukenett. 



1698. Sept. 6. Mrs. Letitia Pluckenett. 



1707. June 12. Mrs. Letitia Plucknett. 



The wife Letitia survived her husband, and, as will be seen, 

 proved his will subsequent to the second of these dates. One 

 almost certainly refers to the daughter, but which entry I cannot 

 determine. 



The issue of the second generation appear in these entries : — 



1708. Dec. 30. Letitia Pluckenet d. to Leonrd. (Gent) by Mary. 



1709. Dec. 16. Anne Pluckenett d. to Hugh (Gent) by Mary. 

 1711. June 26. Eobert Pluckenett s. to Kobert (Gent) by Susa 3rd. 

 1711. Dec. 17. Leonard Pluckenett s. to Leonrd. (Gent) by Mary. 



Nov. 20. 

 1712-3. March 20. Sophia Pluckenett d. to Leond. Gent, by Mary. 



7th. 

 1715. Dec. 1. Brunswick Hanover Pluckenett s. to Leonrd. Gent. 



by Mary. Nov. 2. 

 1717. Dec. 11. Carolina Pluckenett d. to Leonrd. Gent, by Mary. 



Nov. 14. 

 1736. May 22. Hugh Plucknett s. to Hugh by EUinor. April 20. 



Dr. Leonard Plukenet must have studied Botany for some years 

 previous to 1688, else his assistance to Eay in the second volume of 

 the ' Historia Plantarum ' could not have been so handsomely 

 acknowledged ; Eay went further in the preface to his * Synopsis ' 

 (1690), and spoke of him as a botanist of the highest rank. Li the 

 same year, writing under date of May 17tli, Wilham Sherard wrote 

 to Dr. Eichardson, of North Bierley, that— " I hear Dr. Plukenet 

 has the promise of the place at the King's garden." Erom other 

 sources this seems to have been the superintendence of the Eoyal 

 Garden at Hampton Court, Queen Mary, Consort of William III., 

 being his patron, and granting him the title of Queen's botanist. 



In the next year, 1691, when fifty years of age, he brought out 

 his earliest work, being the first two parts in quarto of his '"Pliyto- 

 graphia' ; in 1692 appeared the third part, and in 1696 he issued 

 the fourth part, with an index to the whole. The work consisted 

 of plates, with fairly characteristic figures of the plants he acquired 

 from various quarters, engraved by different hands on copper, with 

 the names he gave them at the foot of each plate ; in the last part, 



This inust be a slip of tlie pen : compare the will cited below. 



