Genealogy of the family of Harvey : of Folkestone, co. Kent; London; Hackney and Twickenham, co. Middlesex; Croydon, Putney and Kingston, co. Surrey; Hempstead, Chigwell and Barking, co. Essex; Clifton and Wike, co. Dorset, etc. / compiled from original sources, with notes, by William J. Harvey.

  • Harvey, William James.
Date:
1889
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Genealogy of the family of Harvey : of Folkestone, co. Kent; London; Hackney and Twickenham, co. Middlesex; Croydon, Putney and Kingston, co. Surrey; Hempstead, Chigwell and Barking, co. Essex; Clifton and Wike, co. Dorset, etc. / compiled from original sources, with notes, by William J. Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

    26/68 page 16
    (11) So borne on his monument at Hempstead. (11a) The doctor’s autograph is of extreme rarity, as the following note by a well-know'ii authority in such matters, inserted in the Album Amicorum of Phillip de Glarges 1636-41, now in the Brit. Mus. (Add. MS. 23,105), and from which the Latin specimen facsimiled below, dated 8 May 1641, is copied, will testify: “No. 521 of the Sypistieu Sale, where I bought it, principally because it contains the autograph of one of the most illustrious men that ever existed—Harvey, who discovered the Circulation of the Blood ; and I never could find that his handwriting is to be seen anywhere else tho’ I have inquired in all directions. D. T. [Dawson-Turner].” The volume, which formed lot 657 at the latter’s sale, 10 June 1859, also contains another note, apparently by the same hand; “ It has been commonly supposed that much of Harvey’s autograph is to be found in the College of Physicians, or in Caius College, Cam- bridge, or in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; but I believe there is no authentic specimen of it in any of these; and the late Sir Henry Halford told me, not long before his death, that, as far as he had been able to find, this is the only undoubted one in existence. Where is Dr. Paget’s Letter to me about Harvey ? ” These authorities were, however, to a great extent in error, for not only is his signature to be found among the Rupert Correspondence in Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 18,980, fo. 125, dated 17 Oct. 1643, and from w'hich our other specimen is copied, but his MS. on the circulation of the blood, now in the Sloane Collection, is holograph, as are undoubtedly also three of the four pages and the signatures of his will and codicil in P.C.(1., for w'e have his own evidence therein to that effect; and the compiler, during many years spent in collecting literary rarities, has met with two other specimens of his signature. (12) Her will was proved in Commissary Court of London 1608. (13) The Parish Register of this date not being extant, it cannot unfortunately be ascertained whether the marriage took place at “ St. Sepulchre’s ” as named in the Licence. Probably it did (although marriage licences were formerly comparatively seldom complied with in such respect), as both parties resided in the immediate neighbourhood, where, it should be remembered, the College of Physicians then stood. There is no record of the union in the Register of the adjoining Parish Church of St. Martin, Ludgate. (14) There was a grant to him of a pension of £50 per annum on resigning his place of King’s Footman to Toby Johnson, 6 July 1620. (15) His will, dated 28 June 1636, was proved 22 Feb. following (P.C.C., Goare 14). (16) Otherwise variously written Coom, Coomb, Comb, Combe Nevill, Combe Neville, Combe Neovill, and Comb Park. This manor, which was purchased by Sir Daniel of Charles, Viscount Cullen, eld. s. of Sir AVm. Cokaine, c. 1652, and sold by the Harveys in 1753 to the Trustees of John Spencer, Esq. (then a minor, and afterwards 1st Earl Spencer), has been frequently con- founded with Combe in Croj’don, with which the family were also at one period connected. (17) The earliest Harvey burial entered in Hempstead Burial Register, the same not com- mencing until April 1665. (18) Their children at date of his will were Richard (? by his first wife), TVilliam, and Benjamin Steele. (19) He was a Jlerchant ,as early as 6 Jan. 1638-9 (Lewes Roberts’ Merchants Mappe of Com- merce 1638), if not in 1637, and is probably identical with the John Harvey of London, Merchant, who was of parish of St. Andrew TJndershaft, and buried at St. Helen’s in the North Quire 24 Oct. 1701, leaving a wife Mary surviving—will dated 10 Oct. 1701, proved 10 Nov. following (P.C.C., Dyer 154). There was a John Harvey, Merchant, in Bishopsgate Ward 1640 (see the compiler’s List of the Principal Inhabitants of the City of London, 1640, in Miscellanea Oenealogica et Heraldica, 2nd Series, Vol. II., p. 37). And a John Harvey, Merchant, of Beerbinder Lane, appears in the first London Directory 1677. (20) Sir Daniel and Sir Eliab Harvey were knighted same day by Charles II., on his first coming over. They, and Edward Harvey of Combe (who was not even knighted), have frequently been described in error as Baronets. (21) Said by some English Historians to have been “sent” there as Ambassador, 13 Aug. 1668, which was probably the date of his departure from England. There is a copy of his com- mission in Briti.sh Museum (Add. MS. 28,937, fo. 120). (22) Then described as “of Parish of St. James’s, Westminster.” Below is a facsimile of her signature, 3 Aug. 1699, from Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 22,910, fo. 485.
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3