The beginning of June I happily meet with D.P.[1] & my Cousin Soames[2] at Arles
June 16th I came to Marseilles which I left after 8 dayes and returned to Nismes en suite
August 26th again to Montpelier
[1] D.P. is probably Doctor [Henry] Paman (1626-1695), as he was reported by Philip Skippon as part of a group of English expatriates resident in Venice, Rome, and Tivoli in 1664/5. Paman was Lister’s former tutor in medicine at Cambridge.
[2] Skippon also reported one “Mr Soames” travelling with Paman. This was presumably Barnham Soame (b. 1626). Soame, from Little Thurlow in Suffolk, who had a son of the same name who graduated at St John’s College, Cambridge in 1681/2 and became a fellow there in 1693 after taking his M.D. (Venn, Alumni Cantab. 1V, p. 119). Soame was credited for his botanical contributions in the preface of John Ray’s Methodus Plantarum (1682). See Charles Raven, John Ray: naturalist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 217. See Skippon, A Journey, 506, 650, 674.
