54 JOHN GOODYER 



which he named ' Sium alterum olusatri facie', on 

 i6 September 1625. The locaHty was 'by Moreparke, 

 and at Denham in Hertfordsheire in standinge water sine 

 canle' (f. 58). 



It has been suggested that Goodyer, as a staunch Royahst, 

 visited the Red Well because Kine Charles and Henrietta 

 were residing there. But surely the evidence is of the 

 flimsiest. The legend repeated by Morton, and supported 

 by a misquotation from Laud's Diary/ of the King and 

 Queen living for weeks in a tent beside the habitat of 

 Sagina nodosa, supplies but a sorry explanation for 

 Goodyer's visit to a popular watering-place. 



The Northamptonshire flora owes the first notice of the 

 Grass of Parnassus to the same visit. 



1627-8 



Of his proceedings during the next few years there 

 are but few notes. On 9 February 1627 he ' Rec. of 

 Christopher Potecary of Stockton, 5 myles from Venny 

 Sutton Clother'. It is not clear what he did receive, for 

 after this note follows, though written another way up, a 

 list of fruit trees and plants, days of Assizes, and (upside 

 down) the recipe for an ointment.- 



Two entries, dated 23 June 1628, show that he visited 

 the garden of one ' Millaine ' in London, and saw there 

 'Sophia latifolia in horto millaine prope le pest house' and 

 ' Triticum spica multiplici, in horto Millaine '. 



The former may have been Sisymbrium Sophia {^^ and 

 Millen's grass may have been a variety of Triticum iiir- 

 gidtLm L. 



The owner of the garden was the 'Master John Millen, 

 dwelling in Old Street, in whose nursery are to be found 



' The statement in a well-known County History that Laud visited the 

 sovereigns at lVe///nj^horough, is based on a misreading of his own entry that 

 the King appointed him Bishop of IJath and Wells, ' Rex Carohis me nominavit 

 in Episcopum Bathon. et IVel/en.' 



"^ MS. f. 129 V, sec p. 3S4. 



