CONTENTS.

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 Independents—Parliamentary
Proceedings—Scottish Auxiliary Army in England

II. Milton unhappy in his Marriage: His First Divorce Tract: Two Editions of it

BOOK II.

MARCH 1644-MARCH 1645. HISTORY:—THE YEAR OF MARSTON MOOR: CIVIL WAR, LONG PARLIAMENT, AND WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY CONTINUED—STRUGGLE OF INDEPENDENCY WITH PRESBYTERIANISM: TOLERATION CONTROVERSY: ENGLISH 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 COLISTERION. CHAP.

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 Controversy: 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

II. Milton among the Sectaries, and in a "World of Disesteem": Story of Mrs. Attaway—Samuel Hantlib, 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.

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 SCOTLAND: 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 INDEPENDENTS.—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.

II. 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: 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 and curbed—Negotiations round the King at Newcastle—Threatened Rupture between the Scots and the English: Argyle's Visit to London: The Nineteen Propositions—Parliament and the Assembly reconciled: Presbyterianizing of London and Lancashire: Death of Alexander Henderson.

III. Effects of Milton's Areopagitica—His 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.

AUGUST 1646—JANUARY 1648-9. HISTORY:—THE LAST TWO YEARS AND A HALF OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES I.:— I. HIS CONTINUED CAPTIVITY WITH THE SCOTS AT NEWCASTLE, AND FAILURE OF HIS NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE PRESBYTERIANS; II. HIS CAPTIVITY AT HOLMBY HOUSE, AND THE QUARREL BETWEEN THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT AND THE ENGLISH ARMY; III. HIS CAPTIVITY WITH THE ENGLISH ARMY, AND THEIR PROPOSALS TO HIM; IV. HIS CAPTIVITY IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT, AND THE SECOND CIVIL WAR; V. HIS TRIAL AND DOOM. BIOGRAPHY:—MILTON IN BARBICAN AND IN HIGH HOLBORN.—PRIVATE AND PUBLIC ANXIETIES: ODE TO ROUS, TWO MORE SONNETS, AND TRANSLATION OF NINE PSALMS: OTHER WORKS IN PROGRESS: LETTERS TO AND FROM CARLO DATI. CHAP.

I. Charles in his Captivity First Stage of the Captivity: Still with the
Scots at Newcastle: Aug. 1646—Jan. 1646-7.—Balancings of Charles
between the Presbyterians and the Independents—His Negotiations in the
Presbyterian direction: The Hamiltons his Agents among the Scots—His
Attempt to negotiate with the Independents: Will Murray in London—
Interferences of the Queen from France: Davenant's Mission to Newcastle—
The Nineteen Propositions unanswered: A Personal Treaty offered—
Difficulties between the Scots and the English Parliament—Their
Adjustment: Departure of the Scots from England, and Cession of Charles
to the English—Westminster Assembly Business, and Progress of the
Presbyterian Settlement

Second Stage of the Captivity: At Holmby House: Feb. 1646-7—June 1647.—
The King's Manner of Life at Holmby—New Omens in his favour from the
Relations of Parliament to its own Army—Proposals to disband the Army
and reconstruct part of it for service in Ireland—Summary of Irish
Affairs since 1641—Army's Anger at the Proposal to disband it—View of
the State of the Army: Medley of Religious Opinions in it. Passion for
Toleration: Prevalence of Democratic Tendencies: The Levellers—
Determination of the Presbyterians for the Policy of Disbandment, and
Votes in Parliament to that effect—Resistance of the Army: Petitions and
Remonstrances from the Officers and Men: Regimental Agitators—Cromwell's
Efforts at Accommodation: Fairfax's Order for a General Rendezvous—
Cromwell's Adhesion to the Army—The Rendezvous at Newmarket, and Joyce's
Abduction of the King from Holmby—Westminster Assembly Business: First
Provincial Synod of London: Proceedings for the Purgation of Oxford
University

Third Stage of the Captivity: The King with the Army: June-Nov. 1647.— Effects of Joyce's Abduction of the King—Movements of the Army: their Denunciation of Eleven of the Presbyterian Leaders: Parliamentary Alarms and Concessions—Presbyterian Phrenzy of the London Populace: Parliament mobbed, and Presbyterian Votes carried by Mob-law: Flight of the two Speakers and their Adherents: Restoration of the Eleven—March of the Army upon London: Military Occupation of the City: The Mob quelled, Parliament reinstated, and the Eleven expelled—Generous Treatment of the King by the Army: His Conferences with Fairfax, Cromwell, and Ireton—The Army's Heads of Proposals, and Comparison of the same with the Nineteen Propositions of the Parliament—The King at Hampton Court, still demurring privately over the Heads of Proposals, but playing them off publicly against the Nineteen Propositions: Army at Putney— Cromwell's Motion for a Recast of the Nineteen Propositions and Re- application to the King on that Basis: Consequences of the Compromise— Intrigues at Hampton Court: Influence of the Scottish Commissioners there: King immoveable—Impatience of the Army at Putney: Cromwell under Suspicion: New Activity of the Agitatorships: Growth of Levelling Doctrines among the Soldiers: Agreement of the People—Cromwell breaks utterly with the King: Meetings of the Army Officers at Putney: Proposed Concordat between the Army and Parliament—The King's Escape to the Isle of Wight

Fourth Stage of the Captivity: In the Isle of Wight: Nov. 1647-Nov.
1648.—Carisbrooke Castle, and the King's Letters thence—Parliament's
New Method of the Four Bills—Indignation of the Scots: their
Complaints of Breach of the Covenant—Army Rendezvous at Ware:
Suppression of a Mutiny of Levellers by Cromwell, and Establishment of
the Concordat with Parliament—Parliamentary Commissioners in the Isle of
Wight: Scottish Commissioners also there: the King's Rejection of the
Four Bills—Firmness of Parliament: their Resolutions of No Farther
Addresses to the King: Severance of the Scottish Alliance—The
Engagement, or Secret Treaty between Charles and the Scots in the Isle
of Wight—Stricter guard of the King in Carisbrooke Castle: His Habits in
his Imprisonment—First Rumours of The Scottish Engagement: Royalist
Programme of a SECOND CIVIL WAR—Beginnings of THE SECOND CIVIL WAR:
Royalist Risings: Cromwell in Wales: Fairfax in the Southeast: Siege of
Colchester—Revolt of the Fleet: Commotion among the Royalist Exiles
abroad: Holland's attempted Rising in Surrey—Invasion of England by
Hamilton's Scottish Army: Arrival of the Prince of Wales off the
Southeast Coast: Blockade of the Thames—Consternation of the Londoners:
Faintheartedness of Parliament: New Hopes of the Presbyterians: their
Ordinance against Heresies and Blasphemies: their Leanings to the King:
Independents in a struggling minority: Charge of Treason against Cromwell
in his absence—The Three Days' Battle of Preston and utter Defeat of the
Scots by Cromwell: Surrender of Colchester to Fairfax: Return of the
Prince of Wales to Holland: Virtual End of THE SECOND CIVIL WAR—
Parliamentary Treaty with the King at Newport: Unsatisfactory Results—
Protests against the Treaty by the Independents—Disgust of the Army with
the Treaty: Revocation of their Concordat with Parliament, and Resolution
to seize the Political Mastery: Formation of a Republican Party—
Petitions for Justice on the King: The Grand Army Remonstrance—
Cromwell in Scotland: Restoration of the Argyle Government there:
Cromwell at Pontefract: His Letter to Hammond—The King removed from the
Isle of Wight to Hurst Castle—The Army again in possession of London

II. Troubles 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

III. The Two Houses in the Grasp of the Army: 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