The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time

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Masson, David, 1822-1907

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Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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English

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PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

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Milton, John, 1608-1674

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6483

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6483

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September 1, 2004

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Contents

1. 1.THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON: NARRATED IN CONNEXION WITH THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF HIS TIME. VOL. III. 1643-1649.
2. 2.CONTENTS. — BOOK I. — BOOK II. — BOOK III. — BOOK IV.
3. 3.BOOK I.
4. 4.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.
5. 5.CHAPTER II.
6. 6.BOOK II.
7. 7.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.
8. 8.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.
9. 9.BOOK III.
10. 10.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.
11. 11.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.
12. 12.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.
13. 13.BOOK IV.
14. 14.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.
15. 15.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.
16. 16.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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