12 JOHN GOODYER 



out the recusancy fines for a fixed sum, and the payments 

 by Henry Shelley of Petersfield, among others, were 

 allotted to certain servants of James I.^ 



Goodyer was in the habit of jotting down lists of plants 

 and odd notes on the backs and covers of letters, on 

 petitions, or on any stray scrap of paper that came handy. 

 In a way this is fortunate, for often the date of the 

 document helps us to date the notes which he put upon 

 it. Intermingled are the figures of calculations, shopping 

 lists, series of days of the month with the Sundays ticked, 

 names or plants and books, notes for excursions, medical 

 prescriptions, names of litigants, taxpayers, and the like. 



The sums done on the papers show that his arithmetical 

 practice did not include the 12 times table, but that he 

 first multiplied by 2 and then by 10, and added the results 

 as in long multiplication. 



It is through these papers that we infer Goodyer to have 

 had a training corresponding to that obtained in a solicitor's 

 oftice at the present day. 



The oldest document in the collection, a fragment, 

 bearing the name Edward Cole, is dated when Goodyer 

 was only sixteen years of age, but it would probably have 

 come into his hands at a later date as part of an account 

 with which Sir Thomas Bilson was concerned. Edward 

 Cole may have been the Mayor of Winchester who in the 

 year before the Armada contributed £$0 to the war fund, 

 and who is still remembered in Winchester as the founder 

 of Christ's Hospital. On the back of this paper Goodyer 

 jotted down a botanical note dated 1624. 



Then there is an Order from one of H.M. Justices of 

 the Peace residing at New Alresford, but holding court at 

 Bishops Waltham, to John Rowland of Ropley, requiring him 

 to take his ' Corporall oth for the dewe Execution and per- 

 formance of the office of Tithingman-shippe for the Tithinge 

 of Roplie '. Dated 23 September 1614. This document 

 is written in a clerkly hand: whether John Goodyer's or 



' Dow. Stafe Papers, James /, xlix, pp. 54-80. 



