COYS 



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and whence Goodyer obtained so many- Spanish plants from the 

 stock recently imported by the traveller William Boel. We now 

 know that it was the station whence the newly imported Ivy-leaved 



NouaglorlofeektA & ppinafa Y V C A. 



(iaiim ClarHfimus & piHfimus V. D. Gml.Coys 

 CoYs' Yucca, after Lobel, 1605. 



of Essex, Esq who decessed ye 13*^ Day of March 1617 who had issue 

 8 sonnes and 6 daughters 



And here 's the worst that envious Death could doe 

 Let loose two soules that long'd to Heaven to goe. 



Of his fourteen children, Matthew, bapt. 1594, bur. 1595 ; Daniel, bur. 1595 ; 

 Maralah, b. 1596; Matthew, bapt. 1596; and Sylvanus, bur. 1613, are all 

 mentioned in the Register. Giles Coys, whose children were bom between 

 1627 and 1632, was the eldest son. The signatures of both William and Giles 

 Coys are written on the title-page of a copy of Dalechamp's Historia generalis 

 Pla7itar-um, 1587, now in the Sherardian Collection in the Botanic Garden at 

 Oxford. Both volumes are inscribed ^ Liber Gulielmi CoySy ab RV" Rimee 

 Junii 18, 1604, nunc vero Aegidii Coys Sept. 4, 1627 '. 



By inquiry at Somerset House I found his will (P.C.C. y] Skynner). It was 

 dated 8 Dec. 1618 and proved 2 April 1627, Giles Coys being named as sole 

 executor. 



