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not the first duty of a great University Department to conduct 

 its business so as to avoid the reproach which attaches to 

 any private individual who lives above his income ? 



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1621, July 25. William Piers, Vice-Chancellor [p. 2]. 



,, ,, Edward Dawson, a Cambridge physician who incorporated 



at Oxford [p. 2]. 



,, Dr. Thomas Clayton, Regius Professor of Medicine [p. 2]. 



1654, July 12. John Evelyn and his wife. 

 1664. Sorbiere, a French physician [p. n]. 



,, Oct. 24. John Evelyn and (?) Lord Cornbury. 



1668, June 9. Samuel Pepys. 



1669, Elias Ashmole [p. 6], 



,, May 4. Cosmo de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who lodged 

 at the Angel, just within the East Gate, "went and saw the 

 Phisick Garden (Bobard the keeper having presented him with 

 a very fine nosegay in the morning) and being there come 

 the said Bobard spake a speech in the German tongue to him, 

 which he liking* and his garden, he gave him a reward" 

 (Wood, "Life and Times," edit. Clark). 



Not all visitors were so polite, for Mark Coleman, " a melan- 

 choly distracted man, sometime a singing-man of Ch. Ch., 

 walking in the Garden caught fast hold of J. Bobart senr.'s 

 long beard, crying, * Help ! Help ! ' Upon which people 

 coming in and enquiring of the outcry, Coleman made reply 

 that Bobart had eaten his horse and his tayle hung out of 

 his mouth" (Wood's MS., E 32, fol. 23). 



1670, Dec. 20. William Henry, Prince of Orange, nephew of the King. 



"Bobart, the gardiner also received him with a Dutch compli- 

 ment " (Wood). 



1682, May 31. Ambassador from Morocco. " Dr. Morison harangued 



him." 



1683, May. Duke of York, "his dutchess and his daughter the lady 



Ann." " Dr. Morison the botanick professor speaking an 



* "In the published account of the Duke's travels, it is said that the 

 purport of various congratulatory addresses was not sufficiently understood 

 on account of the peculiarity of pronunciation" (Macray). Perhaps 

 Bobart, being a foreigner, was the one man whom he could understand 

 hence the liking and the reward. 



