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including an upstairs fire-place in a massive pier, facing 

 a window, and within four feet of it, still need explanation : 

 the well in the cellar and a possible underground passage 

 need exploration. It is greatly to be desired that the 

 house may find an owner who will undertake the intelligent 

 and sympathetic restoration of what is perhaps the most 

 interestino- house in Petersfield. 



The papers of the next two years bear evidence of his 

 change of abode and change of state. Memoranda and 

 accounts show that he was occasionally commissioned to do 

 shopping for his wife. Notes of one and a half yards of 

 white cotton, of hooks and eyes, of silk and buttons, tell 

 a story as clear as it is brief, while on the other hand we 

 read of the employment of certain labourers on 24 June 

 1634 for 'digging my grounds'.^ This evidently refers to 

 a new garden in Petersfield. 



On 5 March 1632 he noted the beneficial result of the 

 application of Honewort {Cartcm segetum Benth.) to a 

 swelling or 'Hone' in the cheek of Mrs. Mooring, when 

 a young girl. 



1633 



The summer after his marriage he found on 2 July the 

 local Starry-headed Small Water Plantain {Damasonmm 

 stellatum Pers.) between Sandie Chappell and Kingston, 

 having previously found it on Hounslow Heath. Johnson 

 found it a little beyond Ilford in the way to Rumford.^ 

 But Goodyer had observed it in 16 18. 



On 4 July he was busy with the Ferns of the neighbour- 

 hood of Petersfield. ' I have observed ' he wrote ' fower 

 sorts of Feme, by most wrighters esteemed to be the male 

 Fern of Dioscorides: by Anguillara, Gesner, Caesalpinus, 

 and Clusius accounted to be the Female, and so indeed 

 doe I thinke them to be, though I call them the Male with 



^ Theophilus Hasted) ^, t^ • ^ 



„, ^ u ' T •• Tho. Bowyier ) ,. . , 



Tho. Crowcher j- 24 Junij QvlvP^t^r '^'^S'^g '^V grounds. 



Andrew Ansell j ino. :5yivesierj 



[MS. f. 14 

 ^ Ger. eiiiac. 418. 



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