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father was then Rector; and it appears from the 

 parish registry that he was baptized there on 

 the 31st day of March, 1621. On the 30th 

 September, 1624, his father was appointed to the 

 Readership of the Holy-Trinity Church in this 

 town, whither he removed with his family, and 

 where he continued to reside until his premature 

 death in 1640, when, in crossing the Humber in 

 a small boat, he was unfortunately drowned, 

 Andrew Marvell received the rudiments of his 

 education at the Grammar-School in this town, 

 of which his father was master, and, during a 

 period of about twenty years, he was the faithful 

 and zealous Representative of Hull in Parliament. 

 Our patriot's public life is familiar to us all, and 

 it is only in reference to his character as an 

 author that he is now brought under our con- 

 sideration. His writings, consisting of prose and 

 verse, were chiefly of a political and controversial 

 nature, though his metrical compositions com- 

 prise many pieces of a ludicrous and humorous 

 cast, in Latin as well as English. His principal 

 prose works are his " Rehearsal transprosed, or 

 " animadversions upon a late Book, intituled a 

 " preface shewing what grounds there are of fears 

 " and jealousies in Popery/ 5 published in 1672 ; 

 a second part of the same work, published in 

 reply to Dr. Parker's reproof to the Rehearsal 

 transprosed, in a discourse to its author ; " Mr. 



