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other my poorest kindred, to be distributed at the appointment of my executors.’ Then there come in touches of kind remembrance of old friends. ‘My little silver instruments of surgery to Dr. Scarborough, and my velvet gown. Five pounds to my loving friend Dr. Ent, to buy him a ring to keep or wear in remembrance of me;’ and in a codicil he adds, ‘ten pounds to my good friend Mr. Thos. Hobbes, to buy something to keep in remembrance of me.’ It is strange to find evidence of close intimacy between two men so widely different as Wm. Harvey and Thomas Hobbes. I dare say their common acquaintance with Bacon brought them in contact, and Harvey’s genial temper would attach him to a man who ‘was well-beloved for his pleasant facetiousness and suavity.’[1]
One matter Harvey refers to in his will which might excusably enough have moved him to complaint: his library plundered, his manuscripts destroyed a few years before by the Parliamentary soldiers when they rifled his lodging at Whitehall. But he only desires his loving friends, Dr. Scarborough and Dr. Ent,
- ↑ Aubrey. Op. cit., vol. ii. part. ii. p. 619.
