1. Marvell’s speech 14 October 1667 reported in The Diary of John Milward Esq (ed. C. Robbins, 1938), p328.
2. See E.E. Duncan-Jones, ‘Marvell’s Letter to Sir John Trott’, Notes and Queries, January 1966, pp26–7.
3. L.311–12.
4. Quoted in Grey, Debates, Vol. I, p6n.
5. L.57.
6. L.58.
7. Quoted from Add. MSS. 35,865.f.10, 10b by Caroline Robbins, ‘A Note on a Hitherto Unprinted Speech by Andrew Marvell’, Modern Languages Review (1936), p549.
8. Diary of John Milward, p85.
9. Parliamentary History, 1667, col. 376–7.
10. Ibid, col. 376–7.
11. L.59.
12. L.59.
13. See Grey, p36; Parliamentary History, col. 385; Milward, p116.
14. L.61.
15. L.62.
16. L.63.
17. L.256.
18. Grey, Debates, 1668, p70.
19. Milward, p185.
20. Pepys, 17 February 1668, p617.
21. Legouis, 1928, p264n, citing Arlington’s Letters to Sir William Temple (1701), p226.
22. Milward, p197.
23. L.373n.
24. L.74.
25. L.82.
26. L.68.
27. L.363n.
28. L.67.
29. L.91.
30. L.257.
31. L.258.
32. L.258. I have preferred the reading ‘we’ to ‘he’ here.
33. Kelliher, pp85–6.
34. L.87.
35. L.92.
36. L.93.
Chapter 18: Arbitrary Malice
1. L.314.
2. L.96.
3. L.313.
4. L.100.
5. L.104.
6. L.316.
7. L.263.
8. L.265.
Chapter 19: Our Mottly Parliament
1. ‘Further Advice to a Painter’, P.177.
2. L.119.
3. L.113.
4. L.364n cites the brief report in Grey’s Debates that sheds little further light on the nature of the issue at stake.
5. L.317.
6. L.123.
7. L.319.
8. L.322.
9. L.321.
10. The Satires of Andrew Marvell (1892), ed. G.A. Aitken, pp201–3.
11. L.323.
12. L.130.
13. L.130.
14. L.322.
15. L.323.
16. See entry in DNB.
17. P.184–5.
18. Legouis 1965, p143, and Legouis 1928, p271n.
19. See E.E. Duncan-Jones, ‘Marvell’s “Friend in Persia”’, Notes and Queries, November 1957, pp466–7.
20. L.326.
Chapter 20: A Gracious Declaration
1. The Rehearsal, p73.
2. Quoted by Legouis (1928), p107n, from a letter by the Reverend Robert Banks dated 14 April 1708 in Letters of eminent men addressed to Ralph Thoresby, 1832, Vol. II, p102.
3. Halifax, Complete Works, ed. J.P. Kenyon (1969), pp255–6.
4. L.328.
5. L.273.
6. L.276.
7. Jonathan Swift, from the ‘Apology’ to the fifth edition of A Tale of a Tub (1710).
8. See entry in DNB.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. The Rehearsal, p28.
12. Ibid., p182.
13. Burnet, cited in entry on Parker in DNB.
14. Ibid.
15. Wood, Vol. IV p231.
16. These excerpts cited by Smith in his introduction to The Rehearsal, p xi.
17. Samuel Parker, A Discourse … (1670), Preface, pxxv.
Chapter 21: Animadversions
1. The Rehearsal, p163.
2. Henry Morley, introduction to Burlesque Plays and Poems (1885), p6.
3. Ibid., p80. Also quoted in The Rehearsal, introduction, pxii.
4. Sir John Reresby, Memoirs, ed. Browning 1936, p84. Also quoted by D.I.B. Smith in his introduction to The Rehearsal, to which I am greatly indebted for the background to this controversy.
5. Gilbert Burnet, History of my Own Time (ed. Airy, 1897), Vol. I, p555.
6. Reliquiae Baxterianae, Part 1, p39.
7. Burnet, A Supplement to the History of My Own Time (ed. Foxcroft, 1902), p216.
8. All quotations in this chapter are from The Rehearsal, ed. Smith; individual page references, for the most part, are not given.
9. The Rehearsal, Part Two, p165.
10. Ibid., p238.
11. Ibid., p107.
12. Ibid., p357n.
Chapter 22: Rosemary and Bays
1. Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed, in a Discourse to its Author by the Author of the Ecclesiastical Politie (1673), p212.
2. Aubrey, p196.
3. Thompson’s evidence for this ‘faithfully transcribed’ anecdote (pp473–5) is a letter from the dissenting minister Caleb Fleming written on 5 May 1671 to Thomas Hollis. Fleming claims to have been told the story ‘thirty years ago [i.e. fifty-three years after Marvell’s death] in the north’. He insisted: ‘I am conscious of not having contrived one circumstance.’
4. Wood, cited in DNB entry.
5. Henry Stubbe, Rosemary & Bayes etc. (1672), p1.
6. From the papers of Sir Heneage Finch, Attorney-General (167–73) at the Leicestershire Record Office: Finch MSS. Cited in full by Kelliher, p108.
7. Ibid.
8. Cited by Smith, introduction to The Rehearsal, pxxiii.
9. Samuel Parker, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed (1673), ‘To the Reader’.
10. Ibid., p77.
11. Ibid., p526.
12. Bishop Parker’s History of His Own Time (1727), trans. Thomas Newlin, p331.
13. Ibid., p334.
14. Richard Leigh, The Transproser Rehears’d (1673), p135.
15. S’Too Him Bayes (Oxford, 1673), p107.
16. Edmund Hickeringill, Gregory, Father-Greybeard (1673), p164.
17. A Common Place-Book Out of the Rehearsal Transpros’d (1673), p18.
Chapter 23: A Shoulder of Mutton
1. L.328.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Grosart, pxlix.
5. Grosart, loc. cit.; Thompson, pp460–4; Cooke, pp11–13; Legouis 1928, pp226–7; Legouis 1965, pp120–1; Dove, pp34–7.
6. Thompson, p463.
7. Also cited by Legouis, p227n.
8. See title page to The Rehearsal Transpros’d: The Second Part (1673).
9. The Rehearsal, p146.
10. The Rehearsal, pp159–69.
11. Wood, pp230–1.
Chapter 24: Tinkling Rhyme
1. K.H.D. Haley, William of Orange and the English Opposition 1672–4 (1953), p52.
2. Ibid., p57, citing Williamson’s unpublished journal in the Public Record Office.
3. Cooke, p9. See also L.N. Wall, ‘Marvell and the Third Dutch War’, Notes and Queries, July 1957, pp296–7.
4. Henning, Vol. III, p26.
5. L.282.
6. The Rehearsal, p311.
7. The Poems of John Milton (ed. Carey and Fowler, 1968), pp456–7.
8. L.283.
9. L.333.
10. L.332.
11. L.334.
12. L.339.
13. L.144.
Chapter 25: The Late Embezzlements
1. A Dialogue between the Two Horses, Vol. II, pp159–60.
2. Thompson, Vol. 1, p432.
3. L.144.
4. L.146.
5. L.150.
6. Quoted from CSPD 1678, p85, L.N. Wall, ‘Marvell’s Friends in the City’, Notes and Queries, June 1959, pp204–7.
7. L.160.
8. Unpublished letter of John Aubrey (Bodleian MS.), quoted by French, Life Records of John Milton, Vol. 5 (1958), p234.
9. L.341.
10. L.166.
11. L.169.
12. L.344.
13. L.391n.
14. Cooke,
p10.
15. Thompson, p464.
Chapter 26: Divines in Mode
1. A Short Historical Essay touching General Councils etc (1676), Grosart, p134.
2. Burnet, cited in DNB.
3. Wood, cited in DNB.
4. Text used is Grosart, Vol. IV, pp1–162.
5. Grosart, Vol. IV, p11.
6. Ibid., p15.
7. Ibid., p60.
8. Ibid., pp91–162.
9. Ibid., p148.
10. Croft’s letter is reproduced in Marvell’s letter to Will Popple dated 15 July. L.347.
11. L.344.
12. L.346.
13. Letter quoted in L.394n from Hatton Correspondence, I, 128.
Chapter 27: This Sickly Time
1. Parliamentary History (1677), Col. 857. Speech by Andrew Marvell.
2. L.287.
3. L.285.
4. L.349.
5. L.287.
6. L.375n.
7. L.176.
8. L.177.
9. L.178.
10. L.179.
11. L.189.
12. Parliamentary History (1677), Col. 854–7.
13. Henning, Vol. III, p26.
14. Parliamentary History (1677), Col. 858–9.
15. L.356.
16. L.205.
17. L.368n.
18. Legouis 1965, p158, raises what he calls a ‘mere conjecture’ of some ulterior motive in these visits.
19. L.208.
20. L.209.
Chapter 28: No Popery
1. An Account of the Growth of Popery, and Arbitrary Government in England (1677), Grosart, Vol. IV, p250.
2. L.296.
3. L.375n.
4. L.376n.
5. L.296.
6. L.298.
7. L.220.
8. L.221.
9. Ibid.
10. L.226.
11. L.227.
12. Ibid.
13. L.230.
14. L.244.
15. L.357.
16. Cooke, p31.
17. Thompson, p478.
18. All quotations are from Grosart, Vol. IV, pp245–414.
19. Ibid., p252.
20. Ibid., p261.
21. Ibid., p248.
22. London Gazette, 21–25 March 1678. The advertisement is reproduced in Kelliher, p113.
Chapter 29: A Death in Bloomsbury
1. Aubrey, p196.
2. William Empson, ‘Natural Magic and Populism in Marvell’s Poetry’, Andrew Marvell: Essays on the Tercentenary (1979), ed. R.L. Brett, p48.
3. Elsie Duncan-Jones, ‘Marvell: A Great Master of Words’, Warton Lecture on English Poetry, Proceedings of the British Academy, 61 (1975), p277.
4. William Empson, ‘The Marriage of Marvell’, Using Biography (1984), p80.
5. Ibid., p79.
6. L.245.
7. L.369n, citing Bench Books for 29 July 1678.
8. L.369n.
9. See Legouis 1928, p298.
10. For a detailed account, see L.N. Wall, ‘Marvell’s Friends in the City’, Notes and Queries, June 1959, pp204–7.
11. For the fullest account of the business and the role of Mary Palmer, the definitive account, based on an examination of depositions in the Public Record Office, see F.S. Tupper ‘Mary Palmer, Alias Mrs Andrew Marvell’, PMLA (1938), Vol. 53, pp367–92. Tupper’s interpretation of events, however, is challenged by William Empson in Using Biography (loc. cit.).
12. Tupper, loc. cit., p374.
13. Andrew Clark (ed.), Wood’s Life and Times, Vol. II, p414.
14. L.376n.
Chapter 30: The Island’s Watchful Sentinel
1. Anonymous verses ‘On his Excellent Friend Mr Andrew Marvell’, from Poems on Affairs of State, ed. George deF. Lord (1963), Vol. I, pp436–7.
2. Frank Kermode (ed.), Andrew Marvell (1994), Oxford Poetry Library, ‘Introduction’, p xiv.
3. Grosart, Vol. IV, p168.
4. Ibid., p242.
5. The Poems of John Dryden, ed. John Sargeaunt (1948), p98.
6. But see also Denis Davison, ‘A Marvell Allusion in Ward’s Diary’, Notes and Queries, January 1955, pp22–3, which quotes a rare allusion to Marvell by a contemporary, the Reverend John Ward, on the Parker controversy.
7. Cooke, Vol. I, Preface.
8. Thompson, Preface, plvi.
9. Charles Lamb, ‘The Old Benchers of the Inner Temple’, London Magazine, September 1821, The Works, II, pp83–4.
10. William Hazlitt, Select Poets of Great Britain (1825), cited by Elizabeth Story Donno, Andrew Marvell: The Critical Heritage (1978), p134.
11. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (1905), p2.
Acknowledgements
I should like to express particular gratitude to the British Library Centre for the Book for the award of the first Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship in 1997, which greatly facilitated access to and use of the British Library’s collections. The Local Studies Library at Kingston-upon-Hull Central Library has a special collection relating to Marvell, containing some unique items, which was of exceptional value. I am also grateful to staff of the London Library, the Bodleian Library, and Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (the National Library of Wales). Mrs Pat Dyson of Greenland Farm, Patrington, kindly opened up for me the Parish Church at Winestead-in-Holderness. In writing this book I have found myself repeatedly in debt to the work of a number of twentieth-century Marvell scholars and historians who have greatly added to biographical knowledge about the poet: Pauline Burdon, Elsie Duncan-Jones, Hilton Kelliher, J.P. Kenyon, Pierre Legouis, H.M. Margoliouth, D.I.B. Smith and L.N. Wall are among the most prominent.
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Account of the Growth of Popery, An
Acklam, George
Ad Regem Carolum Parodia
advice-to-a-painter genre
Aitken, G.A.
Allin, Sir Thomas
Alured, Catherine
Alured, John
Alured, Matthew
Alured, Thomas
Angell, Justinian
Anglesey, Earl of
Anne, Princess: collection of verses to celebrate birth of
Argyle, Bishop of
Arlington, Lord (Henry Bennet)
Arnold, Matthew
Ascham, Anthony
Aubrey, John; on Fairfax; on Hales; life of Milton; on Marvell; and Rota Club
Bacon, Francis
Barnard, Edward
Bates, William
Baxter, Richard
Bayes, Mr
Belasyse, Lord Thomas (Viscount Fauconberg)
Bennett, Henry see Arlington, Lord
‘Bermudas, The’
Birkenhead, Sir John
Birrell, Augustine
Blake, Sir Robert
Blaydes, Anne (nee Marvell)
Blaydes, James
Blaydes, Joseph
Blood, Thomas
Bloodworth, Sir Thomas
Bloome, Mayor Robert
‘Bludius et Corona’
Bodleian Library (Oxford)
Booth, Sir George
Bradshaw, John
Bramhall, Bishop John
Brewster, Anne
‘Britannia and Rawleigh’
British Library: exhibition of Marvell’s life (1978)
Brook, Sir Robert
Browne, Sir Richard
Browne, Sir Thomas
Buckingham, Duke of (George Villiers); alleged homosexuality; marriage to Mary Fairfax; sent to tower; writes play entitled The Rehearsal
Burdon, Pauline
Burnet, Bishop
Burnet, Father Alexander
Burrough, Edward
Busenello, Giovanni Francesco
Butler, James see Ormonde, Duke of
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‘Cabal’ administration
Cable, Mrs
Callander, Alexander
Calvin, John
Cambridge University
Campbell, Thomas
Capel, Sir Henry
Carew, Thomas
Carey, John
Carlisle, Earl of (Charles Howard)
Carr, William
Catholics (Catholicism); attempt to flush out of public positions by Test Act; and Declaration of Indulgence; Marvell’s attack on in An Account of the Growth of Popery; paranoia over influence of; see also popery
Cavalier Parliament see Parliament
Chaloner, Thomas
‘Character of Holland, The’
Charing Cross statue
Charles I, King; birth of Anne; and dissolution of Parliament; escape from custody; execution; statue of
Charles II, King; and Catholicism; and Cowley; and Declaration of Indulgence; defeat by Cromwell; demand for money from Parliament; and Duke of York; fondness for intrigue; given Freedom of the City of London; Marvell’s view of; and nonconformists; presentation of statue on birthday by Lord Mayor; return to London (1960); secret dealings with Louis XIV; and The Rehearsal Transpros’d; view of in Marvell’s poem; visits to the House of Lords
Charles XI, King
Charlton, Sir Job
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Christina, Queen
Church of England; anger at Marvell’s criticism of bishops in pamphlet; attack on in Mr Smirke; and Croft’s Naked Truth; enforcement of uniformity within; Marvell’s anticlericalism; reaction to Declaration of Indulgence
Civil War; causes of; Clarendon’s observation on; Marvell’s absence during; Marvell’s view of
Clare, John
Clarendon, Earl of (Edward Hyde): background; and Dunkirk House; and Dutch War; flight to France; on Great Fire; History of the Rebellion; impeachment and downfall; Marvell’s speeches on treatment of; portrayed in ‘Last Instructions to a Painter’
‘Clarendon’s House-Warming’
Clark, G.N.
clergy: Marvell’s attack on and criticism of
Clifford, Sir Thomas; clash with Marvell; resignation
Clipsham case
‘Clorinda and Damon’
Coates, Thomas
Coleridge, Hartley
Committee of Safety
Constable, Sir William
Conventicle Act
conventicles
Convention Parliament see Parliament
Cooke, Thomas
Cooper, Ashley
Cornewall, Humphry
Cornewall, Theophila (née Skinner)
‘Coronet, The’
country house poems
Covenant
Coventry, Henry
Coventry, Sir John
Cowley, Abraham
Croft, Herbert (Bishop of Hereford); defending of The Naked Truth pamphlet by Marvell; The Naked Truth
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