. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . e coffins those were supposed to be that were found there, theofficers of the garrison carrying the bier and the four Lords bearing up thecorners of the velvet pall, about three in the afternoon, silently and sorrowfullyand without any other solemnity than sighs and tears, the Governor refusingthe use of the Common Prayer. Thus they committed the great King to thegrave with the velvet pall over the coffin, upon which was fastened an in-scription in lead, of these words Ki
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . e coffins those were supposed to be that were found there, theofficers of the garrison carrying the bier and the four Lords bearing up thecorners of the velvet pall, about three in the afternoon, silently and sorrowfullyand without any other solemnity than sighs and tears, the Governor refusingthe use of the Common Prayer. Thus they committed the great King to thegrave with the velvet pall over the coffin, upon which was fastened an in-scription in lead, of these words King Charles 1648. That thence the Royal actor borneThe tragic scaffold might adorn. While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene; But with his keener eye The axes edge did try;Nor calld the Gods, with vulgar spite,To vindicate his helpless right; But bowd his comely head Down, as upon a bed. A ndreiv Marvel/. From the Memoirs of the Life and Death of King Charles I, by Dr. Lloyd of OrielCollege, Oxon, 1668. Also Woods Athenae Oxonienses, vol. ii, p. \V. Hak\, ^ by E. Scriven of the original picture hy C. Janscn, in theP ossession of the Royal Society. No. 39 The Death of Dr. William Harvey, distinguished Phy-sician and Discoverer of the Circulation of theBlood. Born ist April 1578, at Folkestone, 3rd June 1657. WILLIAM HARVEY lies buried in a vault at Hempstead in Essexwhich his brother Eliab Harvey built. He is lapped in lead and onhis breast in great letters is written: Doctor William was at his funeral and helped to carry him into the vault. He died worthtwenty thousand pounds, which he left to his brother Eliab. In his will heleft his old friend Master Thomas Hobbes ten pounds as a token of his was wont to say that man was but a mischievous baboon. He was nottall in stature but short, round faced and of an olivaster-like wainscot com-plexion: he had small eyes, round,
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