Great Plague of, 115, 116, 119.

Lort, Dr. (Master of Trinity), 10.

Louis XIV., 183, 185, 186, 188, 189, 193, 196, 215.

Lovelace, Richard, 25, 26, 227.

_Lucasta_, 25, 26.

M

Macaulay, 70, 92.

"MacFlecknoe" (quoted), 21.

Manton, Dr., 162.

_Mariae Marvell relictae et Johni Greni Creditori_, 222.

Marlborough, Earl of, 115.

Martin Marprelate, 24.

Marvell, Andrew, born 1621, 4;
ancestry, 4-5;
Hull Grammar School, 8;
school days, 8-9;
goes to Trinity College, Cambridge, 10;
life at Cambridge, 11-12;
becomes a Roman Catholic, 12;
recantation and return to Trinity, 14;
life at Cambridge ends, 17;
death of mother, 17;
abroad in France, Spain, Holland, and Italy, 19;
acquainted with French, Dutch, and Spanish languages, 19;
poet, parliamentarian, and controversialist, 20;
in Rome (1645), 20;
invites Flecknoe to dinner, 22;
neither a Republican nor a Puritan, 23;
a Protestant and a member of the Reformed Church of England, 23;
stood for both King and Parliament, 23;
considered by Collier a dissenter, 24 _n._;
civil servant during Commonwealth, 24;
rejoices at Restoration, 25;
keeps Royalist company (1646-50), 25;
contributes commendatory lines to Richard Lovelace in poems published
1649, 25;
defends Lovelace, 26;
loved to be alone with his friends, lived for the most part in a hired
lodging, 26;
one of thirty-three poets who wept for the early death of Lord H.
Hastings, 27;
went to live with Lord Fairfax at Nunappleton House as tutor to only
child and daughter of the house (1650), 27;
anonymity of verses, 34;
small volume containing "The Garden Poetry" (1681), 34;
tells story of Nunappleton House, 36-45;
applies to Secretary for Foreign Tongues for a testimonial, 48;
recommended by Milton to Bradshaw for post of Latin Secretary, 50;
appointed four years later, 51:
frequently visits Eton, 51;
Milton intrusts him with a letter and copy of _Secunda defensio_ to
Bradshaw, 52;
appointed by the Lord-Protector tutor to Mr. Dutton, 54;
resides with Oxenbridges, 54;
letters, 53, 54-5, 85-7, 92-3, 94-6, 99, 100-1, 104, 105, 109-12, 121,
122, 140, 141-3, 145-7, 148-50, 189-91, 191 _seq._, 210;
begins his career as anonymous political poet and satirist (1653), 56;
dislike of the Dutch, 56;
impregnated with the new ideas about sea power, 59;
reported to have been among crowd which witnessed