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 56 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. Protector : and in order to sanctify the govern- ment by a seeming choice of the people, framed, what they called, an humble petition and advice ; by this deed, the Protector had the power given him of nominating his successor, had a per- petual revenue assigned him, together with other privileges. When this deed was accepted by the people, Cromwell, as if his power had just com- menced from this popular consent, was anew inaugurated in Westminster Hall, after the most solemn and most pompous manner." It was to this second ceremony that Hamey alluded. Harvey, notwithstanding the counter-assertions of Laurence and all his other biographers, certainly died, as Hamey says, in 1657, and was buried on the 26th of June, of that year ; for on reference to the Annals of the College of Physicians, it appears that, on the 25th of that month, the fol- lowing admonition to the Fellows of the College was given : Com. SolenniaTrimestria, 25° Junii, 1657. Monentur Socii, ut togati prosequi velint exequias funeris Drs. Harvsei, postero die celebrandas. One who was at his funeral, says, that he lies buried in a vault at Hampsted, Essex, which his brother Eliab built ; he is lapt in lead, and on his breast in large letters, was to be read Dr. William Harvey. In his person he was very small in stature, round faced, of an olive complexion, with small, round, black eyes, full of spirit, and hair black as a raven, till within twenty years of his death, when