THE CHURCH HISTORY OF BRITAIN; FROM THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST UNTIL THE YEAR M.DC.XLVIII. ENDEAVOURED BY THOMAS FULLER, D.D. PREBENDARY OF SARUM. A NEW EDITION, IN SIX VOLUMES, BY THE REV. J. S. BREWER, M.A. VOLUME V. OXFORD: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCC.XLV. SECT. V. ΤΟ DANIEL HARVEY, ESQ., HIGH SHERIFF OF SURREY a. I am sufficiently sensible of the great distance and disproportion betwixt my meanness and your worth, as at all other times, so now especially, whilst you are a prime officer in public employment. Despairing, therefore, that my pen can produce any thing meet for your entertainment, I have endeavoured in this Section to accommodate you with company fittest for your converse, being all no meaner than statesmen, and most of them privy counsellors, in their several letters about the grand business of conformity. God in due time bless you and your honourable consort with such issue as may be a comfort to you and a credit to all your relations. a A form of ERY strongly Leicester, (though at the A. D. 1582. council-table politicly complying with 25 Eliz. the rest of the lords, and concurring discipline always with their results when sitting of by the in conjunction with them,) when alone, brethren [Arms. Or, on a chief indented sable three crescents argent. Third son of Thomas Harvey, esq. and Joan his wife, daughter of John Halke, esq., both of the county of Kent. He was brother to the celebrated Dr. William Harvey, who discovered the circulation of the blood, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward FULLER, VOL. v. lord Montague, of Boughton, B considered |