Note 22 — THE LIFE OF WILLIAM HARVEY, M.D.
Robert Willis translation
On the monumental tablet of Thomas, the first of the brothers who died, in the church of St. Peter’s-le-Poore, the mottos, doubtless supplied by a surviving member of the family, show this feeling. The inscription is as follows:
As in a Sheafe of Arrows. Vis unita fortior. The band of Love The Unitor of Brethren. Here Lyeth the body of Thomas Harvey, Of London, Merchant, Who departed this life The 2nd of Feby. An. Dom. 1622.
(Stow’s London, third edit., fol. Lond. 1633.)
John Harvey, Esq., who died in 1645, left his brother William’s wife £50. Eliab Harvey attended particularly to his brother William’s interests; and William at his death returned Eliab’s kindness by leaving him his residuary legatee.