STERRY do, in the absence of Mr.Philip Meadows, officiate in the employment of Mr.
Meadows under Mr.Secretary [Thurloe], and that a salary of 200 merks _per annum_ be allowed him for the same."[1] Whether this Mr.
Sterry was the preacher Mr.Peter Sterry, already employed and salaried as one of the Chaplains to the Council, or only a relative of his, I have not ascertained; but it is of the less consequence because the appointment did not take effect.

The person actually appointed was MR.

ANDREW MARVELL at last.

We say "at last," for had he not been recommended for the precise post by Milton four years and a half before under the Rump Government?
Milton may have helped now to bring him in, or it may have been done by Oliver himself in recognition of Marvell's merits in his tutorship of young Dutton and of his Latin and English Oliverian verses.

There seems to be no record of Marvell's appointment in the Order Books; but he tells us himself it was in the year 1657.