98 JOHN GOODYER 



15 Oct. Rec. of Mr. Jaques for halfe a yeares rent 

 of halpenney lands ending at Michael- 

 mas last past . . . . . 7 10 o 

 1665 



14 Apr. Rec. of Mr. Bettesworth for his halfe yeares 



rent ending att Lady day last past (abat- 

 inge nine shillings for Chimney money 

 before hee came to the house . . 4 1 1 o 



The first Payments. 



1664 

 24 June Imprimis to Will. Cox and Robert Tribe 



for mending the garden hedge . . 00 00 9 

 13 Julii To Will. Cox and Robert Tribe for scour- 



inge the river . . . . . 00 02 4 



15 Oct. Paid att the Trustees first meeting to lett 



the lands the expenses of the house in 



fire, beare, & tobacco . . . . 00 05 o 

 30 Dec. Paid John Gamons Bill for repairinge the 



glasse windowes of the house . . 00 10 o 



1666 

 30 March Paid Doctor Gunter for losse of time in 



cominge over for a witnesse . . . 00 10 o 



His ' large house 'was afterwards sold for over ;,^ 1,000, 

 the proceeds of which, invested in Consols, together with 

 the rent of the land, bring in an annual income of some 

 ^75, which is a source of considerable benefit to the parish. 

 Part of this sum is yearly expended in gifts of money and 

 clothing, part in making allowances by wa\' of encourage- 

 ment to servant girls, and part in apprenticing the young 

 lads of the tithing. The people of Buriton have, indeed, 

 much cause for gratitude towards the good botanist of Peters- 

 field, whose very name is now forgotten in the village. 



His memorial in modern scientific botany is the customary 

 one of a genus named in his honour. But unfortunately 

 his name has been somewhat inappropriately connected with 

 a rare Orchid, Goodyera repeats, that is found in certain fir- 

 woods in Cumberland and Scotland, but which could never 

 have lived, where it was thought that he might have found 

 it, in the ' moist meadow named Wood-mead, neere the 

 path leading from Petersfield towards Beryton '. There 

 Goodyer was acquainted with an orchid which he knew by 



