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 PRINCE CHARLES STUART 177 In the year 1653, the seventy-fifth of his life, Harvey presented the College of Physicians with the title-deed of a building erected in their garden, and ele- gantly fitted up, at his expense, with a library and museum, and commodious apartments for their social meetings. Upon this occasion he resigned the pro- fessorship of anatomy, which he had held for nearly forty years, and was suc- ceeded by Dr. Glisson. In 1654 he was elected to the presidency of the college, which he declined on the plex.of age ; and the former president, Sir Francis Prujean, was re-elected at his request. Two years afterward he made a donation to the college of a part of his patrimonial estate, to the yearly value of .56, as a provision for the main- tenance of the library, and the annual festival and oration in commemoration of benefactors. At length his constitution, which had long been harassed by the gout, yielded to the increasing infirmities of age, and he died in his eightieth year, on June 3, 1657. He was buried at Hempstead, in Essex, in a vault belonging to his brother Eliat, who was his principal heir, and his remains were -followed to the grave by a numerous procession of the body of which he had been so illustrious and munificent a member. In person he was below the middle size, but well proportioned. He had a dark complexion, black hair, and small, lively eyes. In his youth his temper is said to have been very hasty. If so, he was cured of this defect as he grew older ; for nothing can be more courteous and temperate than his controversial writings ; and the genuine kindness and modesty which were conspicuous in all his dealings with others, with his instructive conversation, gained him many attached and excellent friends. He was fond of meditation and retirement ; and there is much in his works to characterize him as a man of warm and unaffected piety. PRINCE CHARLES STUART* BY ANDREW LANG, LL.D. (1720-1788) [HARLES EDWARD STUART, called the "Young Pretender" by his ene- mies, the " Young Chevalier " by neutrals, " Prince of Wales " and " Prince Regent " by his partisans, " Prince Edouard" by the French, " Ned " by his intimates/ as we read in letters of Oliphant of Gask, and " Prince Charlie " by later generations, was born at Rome, De- cember 31, 1720. His father was James VIII., of Scotland, and III. of Eng- land, according to the Legitimist theory ; his foes called him " The Pretender," partly on the strength of the old fable about the warming-pan, so useful to the Whigs. No sane person now doubts the genuineness of James' descent from 12 * Copyright, 1894, by Selmar Hess.