PURCHASE OF FRUIT TREES 59 



tomorrow or Thursday that I may geve him an answer, therfore 

 I pray you send mee word by this bearer or yf you Gooe to have 

 them about this town bethink yo"" self. I spake with on Crawley 

 who was my Lord Byshopp Androse ^ his gardner after I had 

 written to Barn elmes and Crawley promysed me to help mee to 

 som but at what pryce I know not yf you please to speake with 

 him send mee word and appoynt the tyme and I will speak 

 with him tomorrow or yf you wyll have them out of the contry 

 send me word that they may bee reddy to bee sent down by the 

 carrier tomorrow, serving this with my duety this 15 of november 

 I rest Yo" ever 



Griffith Hinton. 



[MS. f. 133 



On the same letter is written in Goodyer's hand : 



James il 10 4 Violett I o Mr. Withowbie Hamshere 



D. 1674 May cherry I 8 Audit 



Roberts - 10 o Duke cherry 2 o Draba o-er. 



Pashley - 12 6 Bon crittian i 8 Gramen alopecuroides spica 



(sic) 28 o 2 64 aspera is Gramen crista- 



tum Baeticum by y® adia- 

 cent pts of Shepey. 

 Stachys. by windy parke wall on ye west of 

 Buckett 4 10 o it 8 myles from Oxford in July 1631. 



■^ Z g Leo. Buckner. 



at Mr. John Harrison in pater noster Rowe 

 at the Golden Unicorne — a stationer. 



[MS. f. 133 



Both the letter and Goodyer's notes written upon it show 

 that he was stocking his grarden. ' Millain of old Street ' is 

 again mentioned, as is ' Hugobert at Ratcliffe '.^ The 

 prices paid for some fruit trees are noted on the back of 

 this letter. 



In January he was trying to get into touch with foreign 

 herborists with a view to obtaining the seeds of foreign 

 plants in exchange for English seeds. Drafts of two 

 letters are extant. 



Sir, 



I have made a short Catalogue of some plants which growe 

 for the most p[ar]te wild in Fraunce ; you may acquaint anie 

 herborists there that you please yf they will [be pleased] helpe me 

 to seeds of them, or any other, I will by your directions furnish 



^ Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, 1618-26. 



^ The name Hugobert recalls an apothecary, Abraham Hugobert, who was 

 fined by the Apothecaries Company for not presenting an apprentice in 1650. 



