This great man was much favored by Charles I., who gave him the liberty of using all the deer in the royal forests for perfecting his discoveries on the generation of animals.

It was remarked, that no physician in Europe, who had reached forty years of age, ever, to the end of his life, adopted Harvey's doctrine of the circulation of the blood; and that his practice in London diminished extremely, from the reproach drawn upon him by that great and signal discovery.

So slow is the progress of truth in every science, even when not opposed by factious or superstitious prejudices.

He died in 1657, aged seventy-nine.
This age affords great materials for history; but did not produce any accomplished historian.

Clarendon, however, will always be esteemed an entertaining writer, even independent of our curiosity to know the facts which he relates.