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Model of Government: His Interest in this as now the Paramount

Question, and his Cognisance of the Models of Harrington and

the Rota Club: Whitlocke's new Constitution disappointing to

Milton: Two more Letters to Oldenburg and Young Ranelagh :

Gossip from abroad in connection with these Letters: Morus

again, and the Council of French Protestants at Loudun: End

of the Wallingford-House Interruption.- Third Stage of the

Anarchy, or The Second Restoration of the Rump (Dec. 1659—

Feb. 1659-60):-Milton's Despondency at this Period: Abate-

ment of his Faith in the Rump: His Thoughts during the March

of Monk from Scotland and after Monk's Arrival in London:

His Study of Monk near at hand and Mistrust of the Omens:

His Interest for a while in the Question of the Preconstitution

of the new Parliament promised by the Rump: His Anxiety

that it should be a Republican Parliament by mere Self-enlarge-

ment of the Rump: His Preparation of a new Republican

Pamphlet: The Publication postponed by Monk's sudden De-

fection from the Rump, the Roasting of the Rump in the City,

and the Restoration of the Secluded Members to their places in

the Parliament: Milton's Despondency complete

II. THIRD SECTION.

Milton through Monk's Dictatorship: Feb.

1659-60-May 1660 First Edition of Milton's Ready and

Easy Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth: Account of the

Pamphlet, with Extracts: Vehement Republicanism of the

Pamphlet, with its Prophetic Warnings: Peculiar Central Idea

of the Pamphlet, viz. the Project of a Grand Conncil or Parlia-

ment to sit in Perpetuity, with a Council of State for its

Executive: Passages expounding this Idea: Additional Sugges-

tion of Local and County Councils or Committees: Daring

Peroration of the Pamphlet: Milton's Recapitulation of the

Substance of it in a short Private Letter to Monk entitled

Present Means and Brief Delineation of a Free Commonwealth:

Wide Circulation of Milton's Pamphlet: The Response by

Monk and the Parliament of the Secluded Members in their

Proceedings of the next fortnight: Dissolution of the Parliament

after Arrangements for its Successor: Royalist Squib predicting

Milton's speedy Acquaintance with the Hangman at Tyburn:

Another Squib against Milton, called The Censure of the Rota

upon Mr. Milton's Book: Specimens of this Burlesque: Re-

publican Appeal to Monk, called Plain English: Reply to the

same, with another attack on Milton: Popular Torrent of

Royalism during the forty days of Interval between the Parlia-

ment of the Secluded Members and the Convention Parliament

(March 16, 1659-60-April 25, 1660): Caution of Monk and

the Council of State: Dr. Matthew Griffith and his Royalist

Sermon, The Fear of God and the King: Griffith imprisoned for

his Sermon, but forward Republicans checked or punished at

the same time: Needham discharged from his Editorship and

Milton from his Secretaryship: Resoluteness of Milton in his

Republicanism: His Brief Notes on Dr. Griffith's Sermon:

Second Edition of his Ready and Easy Way to Establish a Free

Commonwealth: Remarkable Additions and Enlargements in

this Edition: Specimens of these: Milton and Lambert the

last Republicans in the field: Roger L'Estrange's Pamphlet

against Milton, called No Blind Guides: Larger Attack on

Milton by G. S, called The Dignity of Kingship Asserted:

Quotations from that Book: Meeting of the Convention Parlia-

ment, April 25, 1660: Delivery by Greenville of the Six Royal

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Letters from Breda, April 28-May 1, and Votes of both Houses
for the Recall of Charles: Incidents of the following Week:
Mad impatience over the Three Kingdoms for the King's
Return: He and his Court at the Hague, preparing for the
Voyage home: Panic among the surviving Regicides and other
prominent Republicans: Flight of Needham to Holland and
Absconding of Milton from his house in Petty France: Last
Sight of Milton in that house.

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BOOK I.

SEPTEMBER 1654-JUNE 1657.

HISTORY:-OLIVER'S FIRST PROTECTORATE CONTINUED.

BIOGRAPHY:-MILTON'S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH THE FIRST PROTECTORATE CONTINUED.