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THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON: NARRATED IN CONNEXION WITH THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF HIS TIME. VOL. III. 1643-1649.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
BOOK II.
BOOK III.
BOOK IV.
BOOK I.
CHAPTER I
FIRST BUSINESS OF THE ASSEMBLY: REVISION OF THE ARTICLES.
THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT: SCOTTISH COMMISSIONERS TO THE ASSEMBLY.
DIVINES.
LAY COMMISSIONERS.
DEBATES IN THE ASSEMBLY: PRESBYTERIANISM AND INDEPENDENCY: THE APOLOGETIC NARRATION OF THE INDEPENDENTS.
PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT TO FEB. 1643-4: STATE OF THE WAR: THE SCOTTISH AUXILIARY ARMY.
CHAPTER II.
BOOK II.
CHAPTER I.
VISITATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE: BATTLE OF MARSTON MOOR.
THE PRINCIPLE OF TOLERATION: STATE OF THE TOLERATION CONTROVERSY IN 1644.
RESUMPTION OF PROCEEDINGS BY THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY: DENUNCIATION OF PICKED SECTARIES AND HERETICS.
CROMWELL'S INTERFERENCE FOR TOLERATION: ACCOMMODATION ORDER OF PARLIAMENT.
PROGRESS OF THE ASSEMBLY'S MAIN WORK: PRESBYTERIAN SETTLEMENT VOTED BY PARLIAMENT.
STATE OF THE WAR: SELF-DENYING ORDINANCE AND NEW MODEL.
PARLIAMENTARY VENGEANCES: DEATH OF LAUD.
CHAPTER II.
STORY OF MRS. ATTAWAY.
SAMUEL HARTLIB: JOHN DURIE: JOHN AMOS COMENIUS, AND HIS SPECULATIONS ABOUT A REFORMED EDUCATION—PROJECT OF A LONDON UNIVERSITY.
MILTON'S TRACT ON EDUCATION: HIS METHOD WITH HIS PUPILS.
MR. HERBERT PALMER'S ATTACK ON MILTON FROM THE PULPIT.
THE STATIONERS' COMPANY AND ENGLISH BOOK-CENSORSHIP: THE PRINTING ORDINANCE OF JUNE 1643: MILTON COMPLAINED OF TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS FOR BREACH OF THE SAME.
THE AREOPAGITICA; A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING.
BEING RELIGIOUS BY DEPUTY: OR THE USE OF A POPULAR LONDON CLERGYMAN.
SECOND PROSECUTION OF MILTON BY THE STATIONERS' COMPANY: CONDUCT OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS IN THE CASE.
THE DIVORCE CONTROVERSY CONTINUED: HERBERT PALMER'S SERMON PUBLISHED: OTHER ATTACKS ON MILTON.
TETRACHORDON.
TETRACHORDON:
COLASTERION.
BOOK III.
CHAPTER I.
COMPOSITION OF THE NEW MODEL, AND VIEW OF THE WORK LYING BEFORE IT.
FIRST ACTIONS OF THE NEW MODEL.
CROMWELL RETAINED IN COMMAND: BATTLE OF NASEBY: OTHER SUCCESSES OF THE NEW MODEL.
POOR PERFORMANCE OF THE SCOTTISH AUXILIARY ARMY.
THE EPISODE OF MONTROSE IN SCOTLAND.
FAG-END OF THE WAR IN ENGLAND: FLIGHT OF THE KING TO THE SCOTS.
FALLEN AND RISEN STARS.
CHAPTER II.
THE TWO CONTINUED CHURCH CONTROVERSIES.
INDEPENDENCY AND SECTARIANISM IN THE NEW MODEL: TOLERATION CONTROVERSY CONTINUED: CROMWELL'S PART IN IT: LILBURNE AND OTHER PAMPHLETEERS: SION COLLEGE AND THE CORPORATION OF LONDON: SUCCESS OF THE PRESBYTERIANS IN PARLIAMENT.
PRESBYTERIAN FRAME OF CHURCH-GOVERNMENT COMPLETED: DETAILS OF THE ARRANGEMENT.
THE RECRUITING OF THE COMMONS; EMINENT RECRUITERS.
EFFECTS OF THE RECRUITING: ALLIANCE OF INDEPENDENCY AND ERASTIANISM: CHECK GIVEN TO THE PRESBYTERIANS: WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY REBUKED.
NEGOTIATIONS ROUND THE KING—AT NEWCASTLE: THREATENED RUPTURE BETWEEN THE SCOTS AND THE ENGLISH: ARGYLE'S VISIT TO LONDON.
PARLIAMENT AND THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY RECONCILED: PRESBYTERIANIZING OF LONDON AND LANCASHIRE.
DEATH OF ALEXANDER HENDERSON.
CHAPTER III.
INTENTION OF ANOTHER MARRIAGE: HIS WIFE'S RETURN AND RECONCILIATION WITH HIM.
REMOVAL FROM ALDERSGATE STREET TO BARBICAN.
FIRST EDITION OF MILTON'S COLLECTED POEMS: HUMPHREY MOSELEY THE BOOKSELLER.
TWO DIVORCE SONNETS, AND SONNET TO HENRY LAWES.
CONTINUED PRESBYTERIAN ATTACKS ON MILTON: HIS ANTI-PRESBYTERIAN SONNET OF REPLY.
SURRENDER OF OXFORD: CONDITION OF THE POWELL FAMILY.
THE POWELLS IN LONDON: MORE FAMILY PERPLEXITIES: BIRTH OF MILTON'S FIRST CHILD.
BOOK IV.
CHAPTER I.
FIRST STAGE OF THE CAPTIVITY: STILL WITH THE SCOTS AT NEWCASTLE: AUG. 1646—JAN. 1646-7.
SECOND STAGE OF THE CAPTIVITY: AT HOLMBY HOUSE: FEB. 1646-7—JUNE 1647.
THIRD STAGE OF THE CAPTIVITY: THE KING WITH THE ARMY, JUNE-NOV. 1647.
FOURTH STAGE OF THE CAPTIVITY: IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT: NOV. 1647-NOV. 1648.
CHAPTER II.
PROBLEMS IN THE BARBICAN HOUSEHOLD: CHRISTOPHER MILTON'S COMPOSITION SUIT: MR. POWELL'S COMPOSITION SUIT: DEATH OF MR. POWELL: HIS WILL: DEATH OF MILTON'S FATHER
SONNET XIV, AND ODE TO JOHN ROUS.
ITALIAN REMINISCENCES: LOST LETTERS FROM CARLO DATI OF FLORENCE: MILTON'S REPLY TO THE LAST OF THEM.
PEDAGOGY IN THE BARBICAN: LIST OF MILTON'S KNOWN PUPILS: LADY RANELAGH.
EDUCATIONAL REFORM STILL A QUESTION: HARTLIB AGAIN: THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: YOUNG ROBERT BOYLE AND WILLIAM PETTY.
REMOVAL FROM BARBICAN TO HIGH HOLBORN.
MEDITATIONS AND OCCUPATIONS IN THE HOUSE IN HIGH HOLBORN: MILTON'S SYMPATHIES WITH THE ARMY CHIEFS AND THE EXPECTANT REPUBLICANS.
STILL UNDER THE BAN OF THE PRESBYTERIANS: TESTIMONY OF THE LONDON MINISTERS AGAINST HERESIES AND BLASPHEMIES: MILTON IN THE BLACK LIST.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM CARLO DATI: TRANSLATION OF NINE PSALMS FROM THE HEBREW.
MILTON THROUGH THE SECOND CIVIL WAR: HIS PERSONAL INTEREST IN IT, AND DELIGHT IN THE ARMY'S TRIUMPH: HIS SONNET TO FAIRFAX.
BIRTH OF MILTON'S SECOND CHILD: ANOTHER LETTER FROM CARLO DATI.
CHAPTER III.
THE TWO HOUSES IN THE GRASP OF THE ARMY: THEIR FINAL EFFORTS FOR THE KING: PRIDE'S PURGE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
THE KING BROUGHT FROM HURST CASTLE TO WINDSOR: ORDINANCE FOR HIS TRIAL PASSED BY THE COMMONS ALONE: CONSTITUTION OF THE COURT.
THE TRIAL IN WESTMINSTER HALL: INCIDENTS OF THE SEVEN SUCCESSIVE DAYS: THE SENTENCE.
LAST THREE DAYS OF CHARLES'S LIFE: HIS EXECUTION AND BURIAL.
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