STONEHOUSE 271 



Lyme 2 hundred xiiij' 



Brick 3 loade \ xviij^ iiijd 



Sand 5 loade v^ xf^ 



Timber xx^^ 



For watching ■ . xviij<i 



For fensing theother wall next the howse w*'^ hordes ij^ besides the losse 



in the hordes. 



[MS. f. 154.] 



X. Walter Stonehouse, 1597-1655. 



An account of the manuscripts which led to the identification of 

 Mr. Walter Stonehouse the Botanist with the Rev. Walter Stonehouse 

 the Divine has recently appeared in the Journal of Botany for July 

 1920. As regards his biography it is known that he was a Londoner, 

 born in 1597, and a relative of Sir William Stonehouse, Bart., of 

 Radley. since he referred to Sir William's daughter, Mrs. Langton, 

 wife of the President of Magdalen College, as ' cousin '. He 

 came up to Oxford as one of the first Scholars of the newly 

 founded Wadham College. There, at the age of 16, he wrote 

 a Tnrcarwn Historia generalis in 213 pages. He took his B.A. on 

 2,5th Feb. i6if, and came to Magdalen as a Fellow in 1617, filling the 

 office of Praelector in Logic in 1619-20. He remained in residence 

 for some years, preaching occasional sermons at the University 

 Church and in the College, including the funeral sermon at President 

 Langton's funeral in 1626. The original MS. of the Statutes of 

 Eynsham Abbey, near Oxford, appears to have come into his 

 possession at this time, for in 162 1 he gave them to the Bodleian 

 Library. It is now numbered Bodl. MS. 435. In 1629 he took his 

 degree as Bachelor of Divinity and resigned his fellowship, 

 probably on marriage, since his son Walter was born in the 

 following year. The University presented him to a rectory in 

 the diocese of Canterbury, 7th March 163^, and it may have been 

 then that he made the acquaintance of Thomas Johnson, then 

 engaged on the description of his second botanical tour in Kent 

 (published 1632). 



Stonehouse was presented to the rectory of Darfield by John 

 Savile ^ of Methley, who held him in great esteem. He became 

 a member of the literary circle of Sir J. Jackson of Hickleton, in 

 which Lightfoot, Sir H. Wotton, and Bishop Morton were some- 

 times found. With Laud he is remembered as being one of the 

 first Englishmen to make a collection of coins and medals : these 



^ The Saviles were connected with the Garths through the marriage c. 1578 

 of Sir John Savile (1545-1607) with Jane, the daughter of Richard Garth, 

 see p. 237. 



