In it he defended judicial astrology, replying to his brother Gabriel.,[2] and gave a weather forecast for Sunday, 28 April 1583 of a great wind presaging further apocalyptic events.
He was mocked in the tripos verses at Cambridge, as his brother Gabriel's enemy Thomas Nashe, reported, by the comic actor Richard Tarleton, and by the ballad writer William Elderton.
[2] In 1590 Harvey published A Theologicall Discovrse of the Lamb of God and his enemies with a dedication to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, The work comprised the substance of sermons which, according to Nashe, had been preached three years earlier.
An anonymous tract Plaine Percevall, the Peacemaker of England, sweetly indevoring with his blunt persuasions to botch up a reconciliation betwixt Mart-on and Mart-other (1590?)
supported the Puritan side of the controversy, and made contemptuous mention of the tract entitled The Pappe with a Hatchet ascribed to John Lyly.
According to Nashe, Harvey lost his benefice through incompetency, and eloped with and married a daughter of Thomas Mead the judge.