literary arena; and he now probably resolved himself to follow the advice he had once given to his young friend Charles Scarborough, "to leave off gunning,"[1] and dedicate himself wholly to more congenial pursuits. And then Charles had long made it apparent, even to the most ardent of his adherents, that no faith was to be put in his promise, no trust to be reposed in his royal word. The wise old man, verging on the age of threescore years and ten, doubtless saw that it was better for him to retire from a responsible office, now become most irksome and thankless, and seek privacy and leisure for the remainder of his days. These Harvey found awaiting him in the houses of his affectionate brothers—now in the house of Eliab, in the City, or at Roehampton, and then in the house of Daniel, in the 'suburban' village of Lambeth, or at Combe near Croydon in Surrey, in each of which Harvey had his own apartments. The Harveys appear to have been united from first to last in the closest bonds of brotherly love,[2] and to have had a common interest in many of their undertakings; and Eliab, as we shall see, employed the small capital,
- ↑ "Prithee leave off thy gunning and stay here; I will bring thee into practice." (Aubrey, Op. cit. p. 381.)
- ↑ On the monumental tablet of Thomas, the first of the brothers who died, in the church of St. Peter's-le-Poore, the mottos, doubtless supplied by a surviving member of the family, show this feeling. The inscription is as follows:
As in a Sheafe of Arrows.
Vis unita fortior.
The band of Love
The Unitor of Brethren.
Here Lyeth the body of Thomas Harvey,
Of London, Merchant,
Who departed this life
The 2nd of Feby. An. Dom.
1622.
(Stow's London, third edit., fol. Lond. 1633.)
John Harvey, Esq., who died in 1645, left his brother William's wife £50. Eliab Harvey attended particularly to his brother William's interests; and William at his death returned Eliab's kindness by leaving him his residuary legatee.
