All that is known of Joan Harvey is on a brass tablet, which still exists to her memory in the parish church at Folkestone. It bears the following record of her virtues, written either by her husband or by William Harvey, her son:-- "A.D. 1605 Nov. 8th died in the 50th. yeare of her age Joan Wife of Tho. Harvey. Mother of 7 sones & 2 Daughters. A Godly harmles Woman: A chaste loveinge Wife: A Charitable qviet Neighbour: A c[~o]fortable frendly Matron: A provident diligent Hvswyfe: A carefvll t[-e]der-harted Mother. Deere to her Hvsband: Reverensed of her Children: Beloved of her Neighbovrs: Elected of God. Whose Soule rest in Heaven, her body in this Grave: To her a Happy Advantage: to Hers an Unhappy Loss." The children of Thomas and Joan Harvey were-- (1) William, born at Folkestone on the 1st of April, 1578; died at Roehampton, in Surrey, on the 3rd of June, 1657; buried in the "outer vault" of the Harvey Chapel at Hempstead, in Essex. (2) Sarah, born at Folkestone on the 5th of May, 1580, and died there on the 18th of June, 1591. (3) John, born at Folkestone on the 12th of November, 1582; servant-in-ordinary, or footman, to James I.--"a post," says Sir James Paget, "which does not certainly imply that he was in a much lower rank than his brothers. It may have been such a place at Court as is now called by a synonym of more seeming dignity; or, if not, yet he may have received a good salary for the office whilst he discharged its duties by deputy." Thus Burke in his famous speech on Economical Reform mentions that the king's _turnspit_ was a member of Parliament. He received a pension of fifty pounds a year when he resigned his place to Toby Johnson on the 6th of July, 1620. He was a member of Gray's Inn, and filled several offices of importance, for he was "Castleman" at Sandgate, in Kent, and King's Receiver for Lincolnshire jointly with his brother Daniel. He sat in Parliament as a member for Hythe, and died unmarried on the 20th of July, 1645. (4) Thomas was born at Folkestone on the 17th of January, 1584-1585. He married first Elizabeth Exton, about 1613; and, secondly, Elizabeth Parkhurst, on the 10th of May, 1621, and he had children by both marriages. His only surviving son sat as M.P. for Hythe in 1621; he also acted as King's Receiver for Lincolnshire. Thomas Harvey was a Turkey merchant in St. Laurence Pountney, at the foot of London Bridge. He was perhaps a member of the Grocers' Company. He died on the 2nd of February, 1622-1623, and was buried in St. Peter-le-Poor.