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to the melancliolick, and them that have weak stomackes," But 

 in the previous year John Goody er* had written an account of it 

 in a letter to Thomas Johnson, dated October 21st, 1621, and 

 printed in Johnson's Gerade, pp. 753, 754 (1633). t 



Johnson tells us that Goodyer "as you may see by the date" of 

 the letter, "tooke it presently upon the first arrival into England." 

 Goodyer's words are: "Where this plant graweth naturally I 

 know not. In An. 1617 I received two small roots thereof from 

 Mr. Franquevill of London, no bigsrer than hens eggs, the one I 

 planted, and the other I gave to a friend : myne brought me a 

 pecke of roots, wherewith I stored Hampshire." From his 

 obviously French name we may surmise that Mr. Franquevill 

 had received his tubers from France. He must have been either 

 the elder or the younger John de Franquevilie, mentioned by 

 Parkinson in his Paraduus of 1629. + The elder first brought to 

 England the daffodils that Parkinson calls Narcissus narboiiensis 

 medio luteus from his own country of Cambray, " from whose son 

 now living we have all had it." § We also learn from Parkinson, 

 p. 134, that either father or son was a correspondant of Vespasian 

 Robin, who, with his father Jean Robin, was "king's botanist " 

 at Paris. The French connection thus established, and especially 



* John Goodyer, born at Alton, Hants, in 1592, of yeoman ancestry, 

 subsequently lived in the parish of Burifcon at the foot of the South Downs 

 in the same county, but after liis marriage in 1632 removed to the 

 neighbouring town of Petersfield, where he died in 1664. He discovered 

 many rare plants in Hampshire and is frequently quoted by Johnson. 

 Both Johnson and Parkinson (Paradisus, p. 248) refer to him as " of Maple 

 Durham/ 1 The extensive Domesday manor of Malpedresham, a name which 

 after various strange vicissitudes of spelling, became Mapledurham, 

 included Petersfield as well as Buriton ; but in consequence of a forfeiture 

 the manor of Petersfield wag separated from that of Mapledurham in 1484. 

 Subsequently Mapledurham itself was divided into two manors, one of 

 which, East Maple, or East Mapledurham, after belonging to the Hanburys, 

 was owned by three generations of Gibbons, by the last of whom, Edward 

 Gibbon, the historian, it was sold and is row Bonham-Carter property. 

 West Mapledurham was owned by the Shelleys in Goodyer's time. It 

 possessed a fine old manor house, pulled down in 1829, in which it has been 

 suggested that Goodyer resided, but this supposition rests on no evidence 

 beyond Johnson's and Parkinson's phrase "of Mapledurham." In his will, 

 dated April 22nd, 1664, Goodyer describes himself as "of Weston in the 

 parish of Buriton," and devises his "messuage in Weston and lands there 

 upon trust for the placing forth of poor children of the tithing of Weston/' 

 which is comprised in the parish of Buriton and manor of West Maple- 

 durham. See the articles on John Goodyer by Canon John Vaughan in the 

 "Cornhill" Magazine for June, 19(>9; by Mr. G-. 0. Druce in the Botanical 

 Society and Exchange Club Beport for 1916, p. 52*5; and by Miss Mabel E. 

 Wotton in the Hants and Sussex News of April I lth, 1917 ; also the Journal 

 of Botany for 1916, p. 375, and for 1917, p. 167. None of these otherwise 

 admirable notices give a satisfactory account of Goodyer's connection with 

 Mapledurham, which of course has nothing to do with the Mapledurham on 

 the Thames or with Maplederwell near Basingstoke. 



f The later edition of 1636 is a mere reprint, embodying some of the 

 errata corrig. of that of 1633. 



{ pp. 86, 88, 102, 134, 420, 434, 



§ The records of the Huguenot Society oit London refer to a Jean 

 Franckvilla in 1605, and in 1634 and 1641 there are entries in the Kegister 

 of Canterbury relating to a Jean Franckvilla stated to have come from 

 Bailleul, which is less than 50 miles from Cambrai. 



