ates, M.A., it is
to be hoped that it will be as little modernised as possible. More
hallowed memories appertain to the next house we come to.

Andrew Marvel, patriot, was born, 1620, at Kingston-upon-Hull. After
taking his degree of B.A. at Trinity College, Cambridge, he went abroad,
and at Rome he wrote the first of those satirical poems which obtained
him such celebrity. In 1635, Marvel returned to England, rich in the
friendship of Milton, who a couple of years after, thus introduced him to
Bradshaw: "I present to you Mr. Marvel, laying aside those jealousies and
that emulation which mine own condition might suggest to me by bringing
in such a coadjutor." "It was most likely," writes Mrs. S. C. Hall,
"during this period that he inhabited the cottage at Highgate, opposite
to the house in which lived part of the family of Cromwell." How Marvel
became M.P. for his native town--how he was probably the last
representative paid by his constituents, (a much better practice that
than ours of representatives paying their constituents)--how his
"Rehearsal Transposed," a witty and sarcastic poem, not only humbled
Parker, but, in the language of Bishop Burnet, "the whole party, for from
the king down to the tradesman the book was read with pleasure,"--how he
spurned the smiles of the venal court, and sleeps the sleep of the just
in St. Giles-in-the-Fields, are facts known to all. Mason has made
Marvel the hero of his "Ode to Independence," and thus alludes to his
incorruptible integrity:

"In awful poverty his honest muse
Walks forth vindictive through a venal land;
In vain corruption sheds her golden dews,
In vain oppression lifts her iron hand,--
He scorns them both, and armed with truth alone,
Bids lust and folly tremble on the throne."

On the other side of the way is an old stately red-brick building, now a
school, and well known as Cromwell House. I don't find that Cromwell
lived there, but assuredly his son-in-law, Ireton, did. His arms are
elaborately carved on the ceiling of the state-rooms, the antique
stair-case and apartments retain their originality of character, and the
mansion is altogether one of very great interest. Mr. Prickett, in his
History of Highgate, tells us Cromwell House is supposed to have been
built by the Protector, whose name it bears, about the year 1630, as a
residence for General Ireton, who married his daughter, and was one of
the commanders of his ar