Chapter 16: An Idol of State

1. L.50.

2. L.50.

3. L.51.

4. L.53.

5. L.55.

6. L.54.

7. L.54.

8. L.310.

9. L.56.

10. John Evelyn, quoted P.341n.

11. Cited in P.341n.

12. Samuel Pepys, Diary, 14 June 1667, p508.

13. Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems 1633–1856: An annotated finding list (1949), p12.

14. Samuel Pepys, Diary, p448.

15. Marvell’s editor George deF. Lord prints them in his 1984 edition (Everyman edition, 1993) and justifies his attribution in ‘Two New Poems by Marvell’, Bulletin of the New York Library, November 1958 and July 1959.

16. Wood, cited P.348n.

17. Aubrey, p196.

18. John Evelyn, 18 September 1683, cited P.351n.

19. P.352n.

20. This is discussed in more detail in Chapter 29.

21. Clarendon, op. cit., p480.

Chapter 17: The Faults and the Person

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.