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well knew Its importance, preferred to the difcoveryof the New World, had the happinefs, in his life-time, to find the clamours of ignorance, envy, andprejudice, againft his doflrine, totally filenced, andto fee it univerfally ellablilhed. Length of timehas confirmed it, and every man now fees and knowsit from his own experience. Dr. Harvey was bothan excellent phyfician and a good man; his modef-ty, candor, and piety, were equal to his knowledge :the farther he penetrated into the wonders of Na-ture, the more he was inclined to venerate the Au-thor of it. His principal work, intitled, ExercitatioAnatomica de Matu Cordis it Sanguinis in Animali -bus, was printed at Franckfort, in 1627* Dr. Har-vey died June 3, 1657, at the age of eighty.

Sir Thomas Gresham . This fpirited Founderof Commerce, and of the Royal Exchange, wasagent for Edward VI . Queen Mary , and Queen Elizabeth . His mercantile genius exerted itfelf notonly in contriving excellent fchemes for paying thedebts of the Crown, and extending our foreigntrade, but alfo in introducing into the kingdom themanufactures of fmall wares, fuch as pins, knives,hats, ribbands, &c. Sir Thomas died on the 21ftof November, 1579.

Sir James Burroughs, Knight, the late MaT-ter, and an ingenious Architect: he drew the planof the Senate Houfe and other public buildings.

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