[152:2] See the dedication to A Free and Impartial Censure of the Plutonick Philosophy, by Sam Parker, A.M., Oxford 1666. Parker was a man of some taste, and I have in my small collection a beautifully bound copy of this treatise presented by the author to Seth Ward, then Bishop of Exeter, and afterwards of Salisbury.
[165:1] Grosart, vol. iii. pp. 145-8.
[166:1] Grosart, vol. iii. pp. 155-9.
[167:1] Grosart, vol. iii. pp. 170, 210-1.
[167:2] Grosart, vol. iii. p. 211.
[168:1] Grosart, vol. iii. p. 171.
[168:2] Grosart, vol. iii. p. 63.
[169:1] Grosart, vol. iii. p. 198.
[170:1] For a still more unfriendly sketch of Andrew Marvell by the same spiteful hand, see Parker’s History of his Own Time, a posthumous work, first published in Latin in 1726, and in an English Translation by Thomas Newlin in 1727. This book contains an interesting enumeration of the numerous conspiracies against the life and throne of Charles the Second during the earlier part of his reign, a panegyric upon Archbishop Sheldon and plentiful abuse of Andrew Marvell. Parker died in unhappy circumstances (see Macaulay’s History, vol. ii. p. 205), but he left behind him a pious nonjuring son, and his grandson founded the famous publishing firm at Oxford.
[176:1] Grosart, vol. iii. p. 284.