to be getting better in 1616, and expressed himself as somewhat hopeful.
The progress of the cancer and other troubles cannot now probably be
traced, but he is found in the summer of 1621 lodging with his old
friend Thomas Buckner, in Threadneedle Street, near the Royal Exchange,
in the parish of St Christopher. Buckner had been one of Raleigh's '
First Colonie ' to Virginia in 1585 with Hariot, and Hariot, now in
1621, had come up from Sion probably for medical advice near the
hospital. On the 2gth of June he made or executed his Will, and died
three days after at Buckner's, on the and of July 1621. He was buried
the next day, according to the wish expressed in his will, in the old
parish church of St Christopher in Threadneedle Street.

Sifte viator, leviter preme,
Iacet hic juxta, Quod mortale fuit,
C. V.
THOMÆ HARRIOTT.
Hic fuit Doftiffimus ille Harriotus
de Syon ad Flumen Thamefin,
Patria & educatione
Oxonienfis,
QVM omnes fcientias Caluit,
Qui in omnibus excelluit,
Mathematicis, Philofophicis, Theologicis.
Veritatis indagator ftudiofiffimus,
Dei Trini-uniui cultor piiffimus,
Sexagenarius, aut eo circiter,
Mortalitati valedixit, Non vitæ,
Anno Christi M.DC.XXI. Iulii 2.

Shortly after there was erected to his memory in the chancel, at the