96 JOHN GOODYER 



entirely in the library of the said College for the use of the said 

 College unto my said Nephew Edmund Yalden whom I make sole 

 Executor of this my last Will and Testament. IN WITNESS 

 whereof to this my last Will and Testament contained in three 

 sheets of paper together with this being fixed together I have set 

 my seal subscribed my name the day and year above written 

 JOHN GOODYER. Signed sealed and published as the last 

 Will and Testament of the above named John Goodyer in the 

 presence of Arch. Bold, Osmund Bilson,^ John Westbrook, Richard 

 Goddin, John Winter, William Gammon. 



MEMORANDUM that immediately after the signing and sealing 

 and before the publication hereof the above named John Goodyer 

 did declare that his Will was that Susan the daughter of Thomas 

 James should have and enjoy the lease of the houses he holdeth of 

 the Dean and Chapter of Winton during all his term therein and 

 likewise did give unto John Westbrook Gentleman his book of 

 Chirurgery called Ambrose Barry ^ in the presence of Arch. Bold, 

 Osmund Bilson, William Gammon. 



The books came to Magdalen College soon after his 

 death, but some of the manuscripts may have been a year 

 or two later in coming, for Edmund Yalden lent his uncle's 

 descriptions of plants to Dr. Christopher Merret to be used 

 in his ' Pinax' in 1666. The loan is duly acknowledged 

 by Merret in his preface, but by a mistake he refers to 

 Edmund Yalden as Mr. Yalden Goodyer, evidently 

 believing him to have taken the family name on suc- 

 ceeding to his uncle's property. This was certainly not 

 the case. 



He was buried, as he directed in his will, in ' the 

 Churchyard of Buriton near his late wife '. No stone 

 marks the spot, and when Canon Vaughan wrote his 

 charming account of him in 1909," no memorial com- 

 memorated his benefactions to the parish. Through the 

 devotion of Miss Mabel Wotton a sum of money, towards 

 which Magdalen College contributed five pounds, was col- 



' Sir Thomas Bilson had four sons and two daughters : I. Thomas Bilson 

 m. Edith da. of Peter Bettesworth of Finning, co. Sussex ; 2. Leonard B. m. 

 Eleanor da. of Sir W. Lewis, Kt. ; 3. Osmund B. ; 4. William B. ; 5. Anna; 

 6. Susanna. (Information from Charles Billson, Esq.) 



^ Parey. ^ J- Vaughan, Cornhill, 1909. 



