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They staid with all love and kindness, and moved up and down the paths of this work-a-day world as if they were quite unused to higher regions. Harvey seems, indeed, to have cared much for home friendships—for the love of his brothers, sisters, nephews, and nieces, to all of whom he bequeathed some remembrance, thoughtfully selected according to what would be of most service or give most pleasure. But nothing in his will is so touching as his reference to a certain Will. Foulkes, whether related to him or not does not appear, who seems to have been a feeble-witted person, and under the care of one of Harvey’s nieces. He left to her ‘all the linen, household stuff, and furniture at Coome, near Croydon, for the use of Will. Foulkes.’ Further on he assigns a stated yearly sum towards his maintenance, and then in the last sentence, as if he feared lest something in spite of all his care might yet befall one so helpless, he provides for his custody in the event of the death of his niece, Mary Pratt. This is the substance of his will; but there are bequests to the poor of Folkestone, to the poor of Christ’s Hospital, to the poor children of his cousin; and then ‘one hundred pounds among
