5« JOHN GOODYER • 



certain periods to her lady clients. The scientific botanist, 

 however, judges a book from another standpoint. Even 

 the genuineness of the Catalogue of plants in Gerard's own 

 garden has been denied by the ' attestor ' Lobel himself. 

 In one copy of the work in the British Museum the 

 certificate has been crossed out, and the words, in Lobei s 

 handwriting, ' haec esse falsissima, Matthias de Lobel ', 

 are written at the end of it. 



Goodyer made the fullest use of the Herbal, and in 1620-1 

 he may have been contemplating a new and improved edition. 

 When or how the same thought came to Dr. Johnson we 

 do not know, but in the next year Goodyer was sending 

 Johnson twenty-seven sheets of manuscript. 



The name of the inn, where he put up, is given in a 

 second letter from his loving friend Hinton, addressed : 



To his very Loving frend 



Mr. John Goodyear at the sygiie of the 

 Angell neere Denma'"k Hous in Strand. 

 1631 



Mr. Goodyer I wrote unto my frend for the trees and this day 

 I spake with him and hee telleth mee that ther is no sure trees 

 growying about Barn Elmes ^ wher hee dwelleth, but hee hath 

 enquired and found that ther is Malacaton trees at Twycknam in 

 Mydd. and they wyll not be sold under 3^ 6^ a tree, but hee may 

 have an apricok tree for i^^ I shall speake with him aga}'n e}ther 



^ The Earl of Essex had a garden at Barne Elmes, Ge7-. eiiiac. 1396, and so 

 had Sir Francis Walsingham (d. 1590), Ge7-. 501. 



- The Twickenham fruit garden must have been that of Mr. ViNCENT 

 Pointer, who had the greatest variety of plums in England {Gerard), and is 

 quoted by Sir Hugh Piatt, Floraes Paradise, 160S, pp. 1 17-18, as an authority on 

 grafting. His nurseries are mentioned by Ben Jonson, who states that he was 

 better known 'by Poynter's name than by his owne'. His real name was 

 CORRET, and he was the father of Dr. Richard Corbet (b. 1582), Dean of Christ 

 Church (Aubrey, Lives), and was also connected with a garden at Ewell in Surrey. 



An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet. 

 Dcare Vincent Corbet who so long His Mind was pure, and neatly kept, 



Had wrestled with Diseases strong As were his Nourceries ; and swept 



That tliough they did possesse each limbe, So of uncleannesse, or offence, 

 Yet he broke them, e're they could him, That never came ill odour thence: 

 With the just Canon of his life, And adde his Actions unto these 



A life that knew nor noise nor strife : They were as specious as his Trees. 



Ben Jonson, i'ndenvoods, 1640. 



