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THE LIFE
OF
JOHN MILTON,
AND
HISTORY OF HIS TIME.
PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.
VOL. III.
1643-1649.
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
[The Right of Translation is reserved.]
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
JULY 1643-MARCH 1643-4.
HISTORY:-FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY:
CIVIL WAR AND THE LONG PARLIAMENT CONTINUED.
BIOGRAPHY:-MILTON STILL IN ALDERSGATE STREET: HIS MARRIAGE
MISFORTUNE: HIS FIRST DIVORCE TREATISE.
CHAP.
I. The Westminster Assembly in Session-The Solemn League and
Covenant: Scottish Commissioners in the Assembly-Debates
on Church-Government: Apologetical Narration of the Inde-
pendents-Parliamentary Proceedings-Scottish Auxiliary
Army in England
II. Milton unhappy in his Marriage: His First Divorce Tract: Two
Editions of it.
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BOOK II.
MARCH 1644-MARCH 1645.
HISTORY: THE YEAR OF MARSTON MOOR: CIVIL WAR, LONG PARLIA-
MENT, AND WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY CONTINUED STRUGGLE OF INDE-
PENDENCY WITH PRESBYTERIANISM: TOLERATION CONTROVERSY ENG-
LISH SECTS AND SECTARIES- PRESBYTERIAN SETTLEMENT VOTED
NEW MODEL OF THE ARMY.
BIOGRAPHY:-MILTON AMONG THE SECTARIES: HIS SECOND DIVORCE
PAMPHLET, TRACT ON EDUCATION, AREOPAGitica, TetrachORDON, AND
COLASTERION.
I. Inactivity of the Scottish Auxiliaries-Spread of Independency
and Multiplication of Sects-Visitation of the University of
Cambridge Battle of Marston Moor-Fortnight's Vacation
of the Westminster Assembly (July 23-August 7, 1644).-
Principle of Toleration and State of the Toleration Contro-
versy: Synopsis of English Sects and Sectaries in 1644.-
Resumption of Assembly's Proceedings: Denunciation of
Picked Sectaries and Heretics - Cromwell's Interference
for Independency: Accommodation Order of Parliament--
Presbyterian Settlement voted-Essex beaten and the War
flagging Self-denying Ordinance and New Model of the
Army-Parliamentary Vengeances: Death of Laud...
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