. Early British botanists and their gardens . (iitlm Clari^mus & piiffimus G:tiLCoy: 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 ali mentioned in the Register. Giles Coys, whose children were born between 1627 and 1632, was the eldest son. The signatures of both


. Early British botanists and their gardens . (iitlm Clari^mus & piiffimus G:tiLCoy: 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 ali mentioned in the Register. Giles Coys, whose children were born 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 Plantarum, 1587, now in the Sherardian Collection in the Botanic Garden at Oxford. Both volumes are inscribed ^Liber Gulielmi Coys^ ab M"*''^ Riniee Junii 18, 1604, nunc vero Aegidii Coys Sept. 4, 1627 *. By inquiry at Somerset House I found his will ( 37 Skynner). It was dated 8 Dec. 1618 and proved 2 April 1627, Giles Coys being named as sole executor.


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