Soon after his return to England Harvey seems to have taken a house in London, in the parish of St. Martin's, extra Ludgate, and he lost no time in attaching himself to the College of Physicians. This body had the sole right of licensing physicians to practise in London and within seven miles of the City. Admission to the College was practically confined to graduates in medicine of the English Universities, but those who held a diploma from a foreign university were allowed to enrol themselves if they produced letters testimonial of admission _ad eundem_ at Oxford or Cambridge, and perhaps it was for this reason that Harvey proceeded to qualify himself by taking his M.D. degree at Cambridge. He was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians on October 5, 1604, in the stone house, once Linacre's, in Knightrider Street, the candidates being the members or commonalty of the College from whom its Fellows were chosen. Harvey married a few weeks after his admission to the College of Physicians. The Registers of St. Sepulchre's Church are wanting at this time, but the allegation for his marriage licence is still extant. It was issued by the Bishop of London and runs:-- "1604 Nov. 24. William Harvey, Dr. of Physic, Bachelor, 26, of St. Martin's, Ludgate, and Elizabeth Browne, Maiden, 24, of St. Sepulchre's, daughter of Lancelot Browne of same, Dr. of Physic who consents; consent also of Thomas Harvey, one of the Jurats of the town of Folston in Kent, father of the said William; at St. Sepulchre's Newgate." Dr. Browne was physician to Queen Elizabeth and to James I. He died the year following the marriage of his daughter. Harvey's union was childless, and we know nothing of Mrs. Harvey except that she died before her husband, though she was alive in 1645, when John Harvey died and left her a hundred pounds. She is incidentally mentioned by her husband in the following account of an accomplished parrot, who was Mrs. Harvey's pet. Through a long life the parrot maintained the masculine character until in one unguarded moment she lost both life and reputation.