DIGITISED MANUSCRIPTS

( 1 ) for the expenses of his funeral. To him Lord Danby, when Lord Treasurer, about 1673, offered a thousand pounds for his vote, an offer which was declined. It is said that Lord Danby, at parting, slipped into Marvell’s hand an order for that amount. Marvell stopped him, and, taking him upstairs again, eall his servant-boy, when the following colloquy took place :—‘Jack, child, what had I for dinner yesterday ?? ‘Don’t you remember, sir, you had the little shoulder of mutton you ordered me to bring from the woman in the market?’ ‘Very right, child,’ returned Marvell. ‘What have I for dinner to-day ?? ‘Don’t you know, sir, that you bade me lay by the blade-bone to broil?’ ‘’Tis so, child ; you can go away. Now, my Lord, you hear that my dinner is provided. There is your piece of paper: I don’t want it. I knew the sort of kindness you intended. I live here to serve my constituents. The Ministry may seck men to serve their purposes: I am not one.’ Sir John Barnard, thirty-six years M.P. for the City of London, and perhaps the greatest financial authority of the day, not only steadily refused Sir Ropert Walpole’s offers of money, but remained one of his firmest political adversaries. Sir Robert, on being taunted for having been unable to gain his support at any price, re- plied: ‘Yes; but he has his price, too—Popularity.’ He could not have praised him in more forcible