connected with his death are thus related:-On that shore of the Humber, opposite to Kingston, lived a lady, whose virtue and good sense recommended her to the esteem of old Mr. Marvell, and as his piety and understanding obliged her to take particular notice of him, from this mutual approbation arose an intimate acquaintance, which was soon improved into a very strict and lasting friendship. This lady had an interesting and only daughter, whose duty, ingenuity, devotion, and general exemplary behaviour had greatly endeared her to all who knew her, and rendered her the darling of her mother; whose fondness for her was such, that she could scarcely bear to let her child be ever out of her sight. Mr. Marvell, desiring to increase and perpetuate the amity between the families, asked the lady to let her beloved daughter come over to Kingston to stand godmother to a child of his; which, out of her great regard for him, she consented to, although she thereby deprived herself of the pleasure of her daughter's company, for a longer space of time than she would have agreed to other consideration but that of obliging her friend. The young lady came over to Kingston, and the ceremony was performed. The next day, when she came down to the water side in order to return home, she found the wind very high and the water so extremely rough as to render the passage so dangerous, that the boatmen earnestly dissuaded her from crossing. But she, knowing how miserable her

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mother would be until she saw her again, insisted on going, notwithstanding all that could be urged by the watermen, or by Mr. Marvell, who earnestly entreated her to return to his house, and wait for better weather. Mr. Marvell finding her thus resolutely determined to venture her life rather than disoblige a fond parent, told her that, as she had brought herself into that perilous situation on his account, he thought himself bound in honour and conscience to share it with her; and accordingly, having with difficulty persuaded some watermen to attempt the passage, they both got into the boat. Just as they put off, Mr. Marvell threw his gold-headed cane on shore to some friends who attended him to the water side, telling them that, as he could not suffer the young lady to venture alone, and as he apprehended the consequences might be fatal, if he perished, they were to give the cane to his son, and bid him remember his father. Thus he, armed with innocence, and his fair charge, with filial duty and affection, cheerfully set forward to meet their inevitable fate, for the boat was speedily overturned, and they were lost.

The lady whose excessive fondness had plunged her daughter and friend into this terrible condition, went the same afternoon into her garden, and seating herself in an arbour from whence she could view the water, with no small anxiety beheld the tempestuous state it was in; at the same time she saw, or thought

she saw, a lovely boy with flaxen hair come into the garden, who, making directly up to her, said, "Madam, your daughter is safe now." The lady, greatly surprised, said, "My pretty dear, how did you know anything of my daughter, or that she was in danger?" Then, bidding him stay there, she arose and went into the house, to look for a pretty piece of new money to reward him with, but when she returned into the garden the child was gone; and on examining her family about him, she found nobody but herself had seen him, nor could they recollect any child in the neighbourhood which answered to her description of him. This gave her some suspicion of her misfortune, which was soon after confirmed, with the additional aggravation, that her friend was unhappily involved in the same accident, and of course, his family thereby became greater sufferers than herself, she having only lost her pleasure, but they their support; and, thinking herself bound by every tie to make all the reparation in her power, she sent for young Andrew, charged herself with the expense of his future education, and at her death left him the whole of her fortune.

He was thus in a position to avail himself of the great advantages to be derived from visiting foreign countries. He resided for some time in Constantinople, as secretary to the English ambassador. When he returned to England, which he did in the year 1653, he became tutor to one of Oliver Crom