Notes to Chapter 114 CPW V.2, 479. This letter, which also designated the Deputy of the Merchants Com-
pany, Mr Isaac Lee, to serve also as parliament’s diplomatic agent in Hamburg, was
never delivered, since Lee declined to take on that function in such a dangerous situa-
tion.
15 See chapter 2, p. 27. For the attacks on other envoys – Charles Vane in Lisbon and
Anthony Ascham in Madrid, see pp. 252–3.
16 CPW V.2, 488. On May 18 Milton was ordered to translate from French to English
several letters expressing dismay over this murder and indicating the measures being
taken to apprehend the culprits and protect the new emissary, Walter Strickland; but his
versions of those letters have not been found. Milton also translated from German (or at
least corrected the translation of) an intercepted, largely personal letter dated April 13
from Princess Sophie (cousin to Charles II and resident in the Hague) to her brother
Prince Maurice (CPW V.2, 485–7). He probably also dictated the translation from
French of Sophie’s letter of the same date to her brother Prince Rupert, the legendary
Cavalier general. The former but not the latter has corrections in Milton’s hand.
17 That earlier tract, unsigned, was by John Lilburne, Englands New Chains Discovered (Lon-
don, 1649, c. February 26). This one, also unsigned, was by Lilburne, Thomas Prince,
and Richard Overton, The Second Part of England’s New Chains Discovered (London,
1649, c. March 24).
18 John Lilburne, Thomas Prince, and Richard Overton, The Picture of the Council of State
(London, 1649, c. April 11).
19 The Levellers were answered in several tracts, notably A Declaration of the Commons
Against a Scandalous Book (London, 1649, c. March 27), and [ John Hall], The Discoverer
(London, 1649, c. July 13).
20 See chapter 6, pp. 178–9.
21 They ordered “That Mr. Milton be appointed to make some observations upon the
Complication of interests which is now amongst the several designers against the peace
of the Commonwealth. And that it be made ready to be printed with the papers out of
Ireland which the House hath ordered to be printed.” PRO SP 25/62, p. 125.
22 Articles of Peace, Made and Concluded with the Irish Rebels, and Papists, by James Earle of
Ormond, For and in behalfe of the late King, and by vertue of his Autoritie. Also a Letter sent by
Ormond to Col. Jones, Governour of Dublin, with his Answer thereunto. And a Representation
of the Scotch Presbytery at Belfast in Ireland. Upon all which are added Observations (London,
1649). Though not mentioned in this lengthy title, Milton also included Ormond’s
proclamation (February 26, 1649) of Charles II as “King of England, Scotland, France and
Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.” just after Jones’s letter.
23 Joad Raymond, paper for the Sixth International Milton Symposium, 18–23 July, 1999.
24 Thomas Corns, “Milton’s Observations upon the Articles of Peace,” in Loewenstein and
Turner, eds, Politics, Poetics, and Hermeneutics, 127–8.
25 CPW III, 308. For the 1641 massacre, see chapter 5, p. 134.
26 He cites an example from Jacques Auguste de Thou, in which the French parlament
denied the king’s right to alienate the patrimony of the crown, of which he is only
usufructuary, even in cases of extreme necessity; he also cites Holinshed’s example of
King John deposed by his barons for giving his crown to the pope (CPW III, 306; I,
441).
27 See chapter 7, p. 219.
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