Notes to Chapter 1cated history see Francis F. Madan, A New Bibliography of the “Eikon Basilike” (London,
1950). The first edition did not contain the four prayers printed at the end in most later
editions.
54 He claimed entire responsibility for authorship in a letter to Clarendon after the Resto-
ration (LR IV, 369), but his authorship was suspected soon after publication. See chap-
ter 12, p. 410, n. 48. Charles may have provided some notes or papers to him.
55 On February 23, 1649 James Cranford licensed to John Playford the printing of these
prayers, which were apparently in a separate manuscript; around April 16 Playford
published His Majesties Prayers which he used in the time of his sufferings, delivered to Dr.
Juxon immediately before his death (London, 1649). William Dugard published a different
manuscript with these prayers around March 15, 1649; he was arrested the following
day but soon released. That same day Matthew Simmons, printer to the Council of
State, entered the work (evidently as a blocking action) in his own name, under the
license of Joseph Caryl. For an account of the now discredited charge that Milton and
Bradshaw connived in the inclusion of Pamela’s prayer from Sidney’s Arcadia as the first
of the king’s prayers, to provide a basis for Milton’s subsequent denunciations, see
Parker, II, 963–6; CPW III, 152–9; and Madan, Bibliography of the “Eikon Basilike,”
passim. Also see Lois Potter, Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641–
1660 (Cambridge, 1989), 177.
56 CPW III, 150. The first editions were in quarto, but there were also other formats,
from handsome folio to duodecimo.
57 Walker, Anarchia Anglicana, 12.; The Princely Pellican (London, 1649, c. June 2).
58 Eikon Alethine (London, 1649, c. August 26). A copy of this tract in the NYPL has “Jo:s
Milton” on the title page as owner, but the signature is probably not in Milton’s hand.
The tract was likely produced with the council’s sanction and is addressed both to them
and to “the Seduced People of England.”
59 Ibid., sig. A 3.
60 See, for example, sig. A 1v, p. 1. Sirluck, “Eikon Basilike, Eikon Alethine, and Eikonoklastes”,
Modern Language Notes 69 (1954), 479–501, calls attention to allusions to Gauden’s
name and previous writing.
61 Eikon Alethine, sig. A 3v.
62 Eikon Episte (London, 1649, c. September 11).
63 J. M., Eikonoklastes (London, 1649). Thomason dates the quarto October 6, but that
may be an error. The semi-official newsletter A Briefe Relation of Some Affairs, no. 9
(November 13–20, 1649), published, as Eikonoklastes was, by Matthew Simmonds, claims
that it was “published the last weeke.”
64 The council order reads: “That Mr. Milton shall have the lodgings that were in the
hands of Sr John Hippesley in Whitehall for his accommodation as being Secretary to
this Councell for forreigne Languages” (LR II, 273).
65 In the Defensio Secunda Milton denies that several worthier men (rumor specified John
Selden) were first asked and refused this commission. He implies that he was present in
the council when it was, by unanimous consent, given to him: “It was I and no other
who was deemed equal to a foe of such repute and to the task of speaking on so great a
theme, and who received from the very liberators of my country this role, which was
offered spontaneously with universal consent” (CPW IV.1, 549).
66 Claude Saumaise, i.e. Salmasius, Defensio Regia, Pro Carolo I. Ad Serenissimum Magnae
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