20 JOHN GOODYER 



The study of drugs was evidently going strong about 

 this time, for in this very year, 1617, the Society of 

 Apothecaries of London, the Socictas Pharmaceutica 

 Londtnensis, severed its connexion with the Grocers' 

 Company, and received a new charter from James I. 

 Goodyer appears to have obtained his Hst of drugs from 

 one of the early masters of the Society, Mr, de Laune,^ 

 an apothecary in Blackfriars, whose name and address he 

 noted on the back of the paper, and who is known as 

 having sent from Burgundy to Gerard plants of Gentiana 

 maior, the Great Felwoort or Bald money, now known as 

 Gentiana lutea L. 



The two Scammony preparations are dated 16 10, when 

 he would have been eighteen years of age. And in the 

 first list the figure 16 before five drugs may show that 

 he became possessed of them in that year. The five are 

 Hermodactyli non venenati offic. Lo. 146 ; R/ia Ponticiun 

 aniiquornm Lo. 289; Aloe Lo. 374; Glans ungicentaria 

 Lo. o. loi ; At aba lacca. 



Towards the close of his life he again revived his 

 interest in medical matters. He bought medical books, he 

 wrote out prescriptions, and he copied notes from medical 



^ By finding the will of William Delaune (P. C. C. Wood 23) at Somerset 

 House I have obtained evidence that the de Laune visited by Goodyer is likely 

 to have been the son, Paul de Laune. Wm. Delaune, Preacher of the word 

 of God and Physician, willed that he should be buried near his late wife. To 

 Gedeon his eldest son he left his lands in Blackfryars near Ludgate which he 

 had purchased of Sir Wm. More ; to poor of French church in London £i\, ; 

 to poor of Blackfriars and of Church of Norwich and Deepe 10s. ; to kindred 

 beyond the sea £t (to be administered by s. Nathaniel) ; to s.-in-law Mary 

 Desloges, widow of Cornellis Tance, ^3 ; to s. Paul thenewe house, greate Court 

 (S: house of office, and the Apothecary stufife and furniture. 



The relations mentioned include sons, Gideon, Peter, Nathaniel, and Paul ; 

 grandsons Abraham s. of Gideon, and Henry s. and h. to Isaack Delaune dec. ; 

 das. Sara, Ester, and Elizabeth ; sons-in-law Chambleyn and Nathaniel Mary. 

 The will is dated 20 November 1610 ; proved 12 .March 1610. Both William and 

 Paul were on the Roll of the College of Physicians. Gideon de Laune made 

 money as Apothecary to Mary, the Queen Mother, and died worth ;^8o,ooo. 

 Shakespeare's friend. Sir W. Davenant, was his great acquaintance (Aubrey, 

 Lives). Paul is believed to have died in Jamaica, c. 1654 : he was a relative of 

 Dr. John .Vrgent see p. 250. 



