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HARVEY. 55 experiments ; to another, a different token, and so on ; and made signs (for being seized with the dead palsy, as his biographer expresses it, in his tongue, he could not speak) to Sambroke, his apothecary, in Blackfriars, to let him blood in the tongue : but it did no good. His death is recorded by Harney, in his curious MS., in the following words. Gulielmi Harvsei, fortunatissimi Anatomici, desiit san- guis moveri, tertio Idus Junii, 57. cujus alioqiii perennem motum, in omnibus verissime asserverat. Sepultus 26 Junii, 1657 — quo die inauguratus est Cromwellus. More than three weeks, then^ elapsed between his death and funeral ; but as it was attended by all the Fellows of the College to a considerable distance from the city, it was, probably, upon a scale of unusual magnificence, and some time was required to make all the necessary arrangements. To explain what Hamey says as to Cromwell's inauguration^ it must be observed, that the usurper had been declared Protector four years before, and had been then installed into that high office with great solemnity ; in the year 1657, the title of king was offered him, which, after an agony and perplexity of long doubt, he felt obliged to refuse, though the representatives of the nation, in the most solemn manner, ten- dered the crown to him. " The Parliament, when the regal dignity," says Hume, " was re- jected by Cromwell, found themselves obliged to retain the name of a Commonwealth and the fourth day, he says, '* Upon laying my finger warm upon it for the space of only twenty pulses" — Exercitatio 17.