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THE LIFE

OF

JOHN MILTON:

NARRATED IN CONNEXION WITH

THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY

HISTORY OF HIS TIME.

BY

DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D.,

PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOL. III.

1643-1649.

London:

MACMILLAN AND CO.

9908

[The Right of Translation is reserved.]

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS,

BREAD STREET HILL.

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.

BOOK II.

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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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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,

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CHAP.

II.

Milton among the Sectaries, and in a "World of Disesteem":

Story of Mrs. Attaway-Samuel Hartlib, John Durie, and

John Amos Comenius: Schemes of a Reformed Education,

and Project of a London University-Milton's Tract on

Education, and Method with his Pupils-His Second Divorce

Tract, or Compilation from Bucer-Mr. Herbert Palmer's

Attack on Milton from the Pulpit-Milton and the Stationers'

Company: Their Accusation of him in a Petition to the

Commons-His Areopagitica, or Speech for the Liberty of

Unlicensed Printing-Anger of the Stationers, and their

Complaint against Milton to the Lords: Consequence of the

Complaint-The Divorce Question continued Publication

of Mr. Herbert Palmer's Sermon, and farther Attacks on

Milton by Prynne, Dr. Featley, and an Anonymous

Pamphleteer-Tetrachordon and Colasterion: Their Replies

to the Assailants

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BOOK III.

APRIL 1645-AUGUST 1646.

HISTORY-SIXTEEN MONTHS OF THE NEW MODEL, AND OF THE LONG

PARLIAMENT AND WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY CONTINUED.-BATTLE OF

NASEBY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: EPISODE OF MONTROSE IN SCOT-

LAND FLIGHT OF THE KING TO THE SCOTS AND CONCLUSION OF THE

CIVIL WAR.-PROGRESS OF THE TOLERATION CONTROVERSY AND OF

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE PRESBYTERIANS AND THE INDEPEN-

DENTS.-LONDON AND LANCASHIRE PRESBYTERIANIZED.

BIOGRAPHY:-RETURN

OF MILTON'S WIFE: HIS REMOVAL FROM

ALDERSGATE STREET TO BARBICAN: FIRST EDITION OF HIS POEMS :

THREE MORE SONNETS: CONTINUED PRESBYTERIAN ATTACKS ON

MILTON HIS RETALIATION: TROUBLES OF THE POWELL FAMILY.

CHAP.

:

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-Episode of Montrose in Scotland-Fag-end

of the War in England, and Flight of the King to the Scots

-Fallen and Risen Stars .

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Work in Parliament and the Westminster Assembly during the

Sixteen Months of the New Model-The two continued

Church Controversies-Independency and Sectarianism in

the New Model: Toleration Controversy continued: Crom-

well'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 Erastian-

ism: Check given to the Presbyterians: Westminster

Assembly rebuked and curbed-Negotiations round the

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