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aforesayd requiring hereunto yo'' due obedience as you will answere 

 the contrary at yo'" uttermost perill Given under my hand & scale 

 the 9th December, 1643 



Ralph Hopton.^ 



Of Goodyer's movements we know nothing for certain, 

 but it is quite likely that a State Paper in the Record Office 

 may refer to him. About 1649 o"^ Daniel Cusick stated 

 that John Goodyer was a malignant and recusant, and was 

 constantly resident in Oxford during the war. Having 

 adventured his own life in the service of the State, and 

 being now in the Lord General's regiment, the informer 

 begged his arrears out of Goodyer's estate.^ 



If it be true that Goodyer was 'constantly resident' in 

 Oxford during this troubled period, he would have found 

 many botanical friends with tastes congenial to his own. 



Walter Stonehouse, now no longer a Fellow of Magdalen, 

 would not have been in residence, but he may have joined 

 his Oxford friends in 1648 when ejected from his Darfield 

 living. And there were other botanists at Magdalen to 

 whom the botanical uncle of Edmund Yalden, Fellow until 

 1642, would have needed no further introduction. 



The senior of them, William Hooper, the arboriculturist, 

 became a Fellow in 1643. He had been ' outed ' from his 

 Fellowship, but was allowed a pension of ^30 per annum 

 and lived in one of the College houses in the Gravel Walk. 

 ' After he had left the College he went without a gown, 

 and wore constantly a very long coat, like your frocks 

 worn by wagoners ; and applied himself to gardening with 

 wonderful success, digging himself with a man that he 

 constantly hired. He would carry his spade upon his 

 shoulders, and work hard every v.^orking day. He would 

 likewise prune, engraft, and do other things of that kind 

 himself. He raised several nurseries, and planted many 

 orchards ; but he did all for nothing, for he would never 



^ Mabel E. Wotton, Hants and Sussex News, 1 1 April 1917. 

 ^ Calendar of Commission for Advancement of Money, p. 1 178, State Papers 

 Domestic, 1649. 



