372 STONEHOUSE 



eventually formed the basis of that department of the very curious 

 museum formed by Thoresby in his house at Leeds (see Hunter, 

 South Yorkshire). 



In 1639 Thomas Johnson organized an expedition of the ' Socii 

 Itinerantes' of the Pharmaceutical Society of London to the moun- 

 tains of North Wales: an account of the expedition is given in 

 his Mercurii Botanici pars altera (1641) reprinted in facsimile in 

 Opiiseula omnia botanica Thoniae JoJiiisoni edited by T. S. Ralph 

 (London, 1647). The constitution of this travelling club is thus 

 stated by Johnson in the preface to his Iter Plautartim Investiga- 

 tionis ' susceptum a decern Sociis in Agrum Cantianum : Anno 

 Dom. 1629 ', apd published in the same year : ' Paucis abhinc elapsis 

 annis, consuetudo vcro laudibilis inter rei herbariae studiosus crevit, 

 bis aut saepius, quotannis triduum aut quadriduum iter Plantarum 

 investigationis ergo suscipere'. Stonchouse joined the party at 

 Chester, having spent the previous night at Stockport, where he had 

 not been favourably impressed with the inn. Their route took them 

 by Conway, Penmaenmawr, Bangor, and Carnarvon to Glynn-lhivona, 

 where they were the guests of Thomas Glynn, to whom Johnson 

 dedicated his account of the expedition. After discoursing on the 

 perils of climbing Snowdon, Johnson gives a list of the plants found 

 by the party. At Beaumaris they enjoyed the hospitality of Richard 

 Buckley, visited his vivarium, and collected seaweeds. They then 

 recrossed the straits to Lhan-lhechid, climbed Carnedh-lhewellyn in 

 a mist and in fear of nesting eagles, but saw little of botanical 

 interest. After a farewell visit to Glynn-lhivona, the party journeyed 

 to Harlech and Barmouth. Their homeward journey lay through 

 Merionethshire ; at Guerndce Stonehouse left them and went home 

 through Shropshire to Darficld. Here he remained for a time in 

 quiet enjoyment of his garden, to the Catalogue of which, drawn up 

 in 1640, reference has already been made ; some of the plants in 

 Johnson's list are included in the Catalogue, and were probably 

 obtained on the Welsh expedition. 



About 1648 we learn from W'alker's Sufferings of the Clergy that 

 Stonehouse was forcibly ejected from his living by the Parliamentary 

 Commissioners and imprisoned. On his return, prolmbly in 1652, 

 his spirit as a horticulturist seems to have been broken, for he then 

 wrote in the Catalogue a pathetic note in Latin, to the effect that 

 but a few of his plants had survived — Novamque despcro coloniajn, 

 — T have no hope of a new colony'. After this he would appear 

 to have lived in London, to have made or renewed acquaintance 

 with the younger Tradcscant, and to have written some intro- 



