56 JOHN GOODYER 



of the * loving friends and Fellow travellers ' who accom- 

 panied Johnson in searching for plants over a great part 

 of Kent. 



' Stachys : by windy pajke wall on ye west of it, 8 myles from 

 Oxford — July 1631. Leo. Buckner.' [MS. f. 133 



Another correspondent, Griffith Hinton, who shows as 

 much familiarity with the movement of Bishops as with 

 the stock-in-trade of nurserymen, addressed two letters to 

 Goodyer in this year. 



To his very loving frend 



M"" John Goodyear at Maple Derham neare Peeterfyeld in Hampshier 

 geeve theis. 

 Mr. Goodyer I rec. the Acquittances, and as sone as I have 

 the Rents togeather you shall heer from mee. My Lo. Byshop of 

 Wynchester^ is this day com out of the town for Farnham and 

 how long he wyll stay ther I know not, but as I heard by on of 

 my Lords men hee wyll stay at Farnham 10 dayes. Thus wyth 

 my duety and kynd Remembrance this 13*^ of July 1631 I rest, 



Yors ever loving 



Griffith Hinton. 

 [MS. f 14 



In November 1631 Goodyer was again in London. The 

 notes of this visit are not very easy to read, but there is 

 sufficient to show that he paid 135. 8^. for ' Diett at 

 Gilford' and that supper at the King's Head cost 10s. 

 The paper is undated, but the year is settled by the days 

 of the month on which he purchased certain books, 

 Dioscorides and Thevett among others, which are still in 

 existence, and are clearly inscribed with a date and price 

 exactly corresponding with the note on the paper and 

 the year 163 1. The further entry 'Nov. 8 wyne w*^ 

 Johnson 6^^ ' has a special significance, for about this time 

 the two friends would have been discussing their great 

 scheme of producing a second edition of Gerard's Herbal. 

 In spite of its great popularity, this Herbal had been an 

 unsatisfactory book from the start. Indeed, when we 

 remember its history, it would have been strange had it 



' In 1631 Walter Curie succeeded Rich'' Neile as Bishop of \\inchester. 



