ROBERT TURNER 235 



Turner,^ whom we have suggested as identical with the ' Turn.' 

 owner of the Lobel MS. mentioned below. Robert lived at 

 Holdshot in the north-east corner of Hampshire : ' Turn.' was in 

 correspondence with Goodyer and Dale (?), either of whom might 

 have shown his MS. to How, without however giving permission 

 for publication by the latter. 



ii. The 1570 Botanist of Oxford and Winchester. 

 [?Dr. Walter Bayley, 1529-92.] 



On looking through some of the older books in the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum I was rewarded by finding 

 twenty-nine plant records, some dated 1570-2, in the hand of an 

 unknown botanist, who appears to have lived at Oxford and 

 Winchester. In accordance with a practice very usual in those 

 days, he wrote English names of plants in the margins of his Latin 

 botany book, Du Pinet, Historia Plantartmi, Lugd. 1561, and in 

 a few instances added the names of persons and localities. The 

 names are Watson, Jeames, Barnabye, Norton, Strowde, Heiden, 

 Basket, and Crosse. The localities are mostly the several gardens 

 of these persons ; and a few places, all near Winchester, are noted as 

 stations of common Hampshire plants. 



When the preceding clause was already in type, I happened 

 to see an autograph inscription in a precious little volume by 

 Dr. Walter Bayley of New College,^ printed privately and issued 

 anonymously as a New Year's gift to a friend. The writing at 

 once caught my eye on account of its resemblance to the writing 

 of our unknown botanist. Both writings are in the style of the 

 period ; and without further specimens of each, it is impossible 

 to be certain of identity, but Dr. Bayley was certainly the kind of 

 man who might have entered botanical memoranda in a Dii Pinct. 



Walter Bayley was educated at Winchester and New College, 

 becoming a Fellow there in 1550. When Junior Proctor, he 

 demanded the degree of Bachelor of Physic, and supplicated for 

 leave to practise medicine ' per totam Angliam '. He was Queen's 

 Professor of Medicine at Oxford from 156 1 to 1582. In 158 1 he 

 was appointed Physician in Ordinary to Queen Elizabeth. 



The Du Pinet, 1561, would therefore have been the newest 

 botany book out at the time of his becoming Professor, and the 

 marginal notes would have been written about the middle of his 



^ A Robert Turner was born at Reading at h. 9.48 a.m. on 30 July 1626 {MH. 

 Ashm. 183). 



"^ The property of Sir D'Arcy Power ; see his Dr. Walter Bayley, Med. Chir. 

 Trans, xc. 



