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a Thomas Gill and of a John Herberc, 161 9. The writer 

 of the notes was almost certainly a Magdalen man who 

 had studied at Padua. 



At this time Goodyer may have made the acquaintance 

 of Dr. Philip Stephens, Principal of Magdalen Hall and 

 collaborator with Browne, and of William How who came 

 up as a Commoner to St. John's College in 1637, and took 

 his Master's degree in 1645. 



Goodyer's other friend Dr. Merrett, the author of the 

 Pinax rerum Naturalium Britannicum, had been a student 

 both of Gloucester Hall {1631) and of Oriel College 

 (1633-4). He was created a Doctor of Physic in 1642, 

 and afterwards became one of the original Fellows of the 

 Royal Society. At New College was William Cole, the 

 future author of Adam hi Eden ; and Jacob Bobart was 

 gradually forming the first University collection of plants 

 in the new Physic Garden, the catalogue of which he 

 published in 1648. 



And yet Oxford was in the very midst of troubles. 

 At the end of 1642 the Royalists gathered round the King 

 at Oxford, students and citizens alike worked together on 

 the fortifications and barricades : the College plate was 

 being surrendered to the minters : fighting in the neighbour- 

 hood was incessant. Goodyer's friend, Thomas Johnson, 

 appears to have been in Oxford on 9 May 1643 to receive 

 the D.Ph. degree, but he must have left soon afterwards, 

 for he is heard of as a Colonel of Horse and one of 

 the defenders of Basing House, which was being strongl}^ 

 fortified by the Marquis of Winchester. And it was there 

 that he met his death in September 1644, fighting for the 

 King. The Royalists were defeated at Alton and Cheriton. 

 Winchester was taken by Cromwell in October 1645, and 

 the King became a fugitive. What followed is matter of 

 history. On Midsummer Day, 24 June 1646, the Royalist 

 garrison of Oxford, 3,000 strong, ' marched out of the town 

 through a guard of the enemy extending from St. Clement's 

 to Shotover Hill'. 



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