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 69 of a second letter from the King. A couple of days after his admission to the office, on April n, 1645, Harvey summoned the Fellows into the hall and made a speech to them, to the effect that it was likely enough that some of his predecessors had sought the office of Warden to enrich themselves therefrom, but that his intentions were quite of another kind, wishing as he did to in- crease the wealth and prosperity of the College m. He finished his address to the assembled Fellows with an earnest appeal to them to cherish that mutual concord and amity amongst themselves, which recent occurrences, we may suppose, had tended to weaken. In the other pages of the Re- gister for the period between April 1645 and the midsummer of 1646, I find the name of Charles Scarborough, the protege of Har- vey, and afterwards frequently an office- m I would here remark that it was well perhaps for the College of Physicians that Harvey was, by the success of the Parliament, forced to vacate the office of Warden, otherwise he would, no doubt, have kept his word, and Merton College would have gained what the College of Physicians, or some others of his legatees, would have lost.