214 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
"A method of treatment," says Heberden, "which I neither recom-
"mend nor propose to others for imitation ; although Harvey lived to
"his eightieth year, and died not so much from disease but from old
"age."
The next child of Thomas and Joane Harvey was Sarah, born at
Folkestone May 5th, 1580, and died there 1591. She, of course, is not
shown in the paintings. Below William in the paintings is John Harvey.
John was born at Folkestone November 12th, 1582. He was servant-
in-ordinary, a footman to James I, "a post," says Sir James Paget,
"which does not certainly imply that he was in a lower rank than his
"brothers. It may have been such a place at Court as is now called
"by a synonym of more seeming dignity, or, if not, yet he may have
"received a good salary for the office whilst he discharged his duties by
"deputy." Thomas Burke, in his famous speech on Economical Reform,
mentions that the King's turnspit was a Member of Parliament. John
Harvey received a pension of fifty pounds a year when he resigned his
place to Toby Johnson on July 6th, 1620. He was a member of Gray's
Inn, and filled several offices of importance, for he was "Castleman"
at Sandgate in Kent, and King's Receiver for Lincolnshire, jointly with
his brother Daniel. He sat in Parliament as a member for Hythe, and
died unmarried on July 20th, 1645.
Below him is a painting of Thomas Harvey, who was born at Folkestone
January 17th, 1584-5. He married first, Elizabeth Exton, about 1613,
and secondly Elizabeth Parkhurst, and had children by both marriages.
His only surviving son sat as M.P. for Hythe, and also acted as King's
Receiver for Lincolnshire. Thomas Harvey was a Turkey merchant in
St. Laurence Pountney at the foot of London Bridge. He was, perhaps,
a member of the Grocers' Company. He died in 1622, and was buried in
St. Peter-le-Poor Church.
On the sinister side (apparent right) at the top is the portrait of
Daniel Harvey, also of Laurence Pountney Hill, a Turkey merchant
and a member of the Grocers' Company, who was born at Folkestone on
May 31st, 1587. He was King's Receiver for Lincolnshire jointly with
his brother John. He married Elizabeth Kynnersley about 1619, paid
a fine rather than serve the office of Sheriff of London at some time before
1640, and died September 10th, 1649. He was a churchwarden of St.
Laurence Pountney in 1624-5, and was buried there, but his later days
were spent on his estate at Coombe, near Croydon, in Surrey. Dr. Harvey
in his old age used to stay with this brother and rest himself on
hot days in the caves on his estate. His fourth son became Sir Daniel
Harvey, and was made Ambassador at Constantinople, where he died
in 1672. His daughter married Heneage Finch, first Earl of Nottingham,
and from this marriage are descended the Earls of Winchelsea and
Avlesford.
Below him is Eliab Harvey, also of Laurence Pountney Hill, a Turkey
merchant and member of the Grocers' Company, who was born at
Folkestone February 26th, 1589-90. He was the most successful of the
merchant brothers, and to his watchful care William owed much of his
material wealth, for Aubrey says that "William Harvey took no manner
"of care about his worldly concerns, but his brother Eliab, who was a