2 JOHN GOODYER 



Concerning Reginald's family history we have no 

 knowledge. His wife Ann, who predeceased him, bore 

 him two sons and two daughters: Lewis, b. 1579, d. 1655, 

 Rose, Ann, and John, b. 1592. L.ewis had at least eight 

 children and left numerous descendants ; Rose married 

 William Yalden ; Ann married Richard Pratt and had 

 three sons ; and John, the subject of this memoir, had an 

 only daughter Elizabeth. 



The Yaldens were still more closely connected with 

 Magdalen College. In 1593 William Yalden, perhaps the 

 father of John's brother-in-law, leased from Magdalen 

 farm-lands in Sheet, near Petersfield, known as Brooke- 

 land, Skindre, Shirk leyes, and Pulyns. As early as 1587 

 (30 Elizabeth) with ' Dorothie his wyffe ' he rented Sheet 

 mills, and in 1596 acting as the College bailiff, collected 

 the College rents, ^171 5.^. sd. from Selborne and 

 ;^i8 gs. 6d. from Petersfelde. In 1597, he was appointed 

 steward for the holding of courts and leets within the 

 borough of Petersfield, by Th. H anbury of Buriton, who 

 had recently purchased the property. The lease for the 

 Sheet mills mentions ' water mills, a wheat mill and a malt 

 mill, together with all the waters, watercourses, ponds, 

 fishinge, banckes, baies, and fludgaies thereunto belonging, 

 with free libertie to digg turfe in the great moore '. Even 

 the legal document is redolent of the natural amenities, 

 for which the rent was ^5 6^. Sd. and half a crown in 161 8. 

 William Yalden, described as of the diocese of Chichester, 

 was the College Clerk of the Account from 1616 to 1643 ! 

 and among the other College tenants were Crusophilus 

 Yalden at Roplie Farm (16 18) and Henrie Yalden in the 

 Spaine in Petersfield. 



John Goodyer's nephew and heir, the Rev. Edmund 

 Yalden, son of William Yalden of Sheet, ^cn., became a 

 Demy and Fellow of Magdalen, 1630 to 1642, when he 

 resigned his fellowship on being presented to the Rectory 

 of Compton in Surrey. Sheet was a botanical locality 

 often mentioned by Goodyer. 



