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fortunes of the king. Aubrey says, " When King 

 Charles I., by reason of the tumults, left London, Harvey 

 attended him, and was at the fight of Edgehill with him ; 

 and during the fight the Prince and the Duke of York 

 were committed to his care. He told me that he with- 

 drew with them under a hedge, and tooke out of his 

 pockett a booke and read; but he had not read very 

 long before a bullet of a great gun grazed on the ground 

 neare him, which made him remove his station. . . . 

 I first sawe him at Oxford, 1642, after Edgehill fight, 

 but was then too young to be acquainted with so great 

 a doctor. I remember he came severall times to our 

 Coll. (Trin.) to George Bathurst, B.D., who had a 

 hen to hatch egges in his chamber, which they dayly 

 opened to see the progress and way of generation." 



In 1645, Charles, after the execution of Archbishop 

 Laud, took upon himself the functions of visitor of 

 Merton College, and having removed Sir Nathaniel 

 Brent from the office of warden for having joined " the 

 Rebells now in armes against" him, he directed the 

 Fellows to take the necessary steps for the election of 

 a successor. This course consisted in giving in three 

 names to the visitor, in order that one of the three (the 

 one named first, probably) should be appointed. Harvey 

 was so named by five out of the seven Fellows voting, 

 and was accordingly duly elected. A couple of days 

 after his admission he summoned the Fellows into the 



