Notes to Chapter 1119 Defensio Secunda (CPW IV.1, 655). The claim is repeated by Edward Phillips and John
Aubrey (EL 7, 74).
120 LR III, 53–64. From a letter to Georg Richter, vice-chancellor of the University of
Altorf. Leo Miller dates it October 7, 1651 in “The Date of Christopher Arnold’s
Letter,” N&Q 229 (l984), 323–4. Another visitor was the Dutch ambassador James
Ulitius, who reported in December that he had made a point of arranging “before-
hand for intimacy with Milton” through mutual friends (LR III, 108, 142–3).
121 The Latin address reads: “Doctissimo Viro, meoque fautori humanissimo, D.
Chrisophoro Arnoldo dedi hoc, in memoriam cum suae virtutis, tum mei erga se
studii. Londini. An:D. 1651 Novem: 19.” Arnold’s autograph book is in the British
Library (Egerton MS 1324. fol. 85v).
122 See chapter 7, p. 209. He also had other financial dealings. He purchased an excise
bond on May 13, 1651 for £400 from a George Foxcroft, at 8 percent interest. Dur-
ing 1649–51 he was also making, but sometimes failing to make on time, payments on
the lease of the Red Rose in Bread Street, which no doubt provided him some rents.
He made the final payment on December 20, 1651 (LR II, 298–9; III, 26–9; and
Parker, II, 996–7).
123 See LR II, 312–13, 322–5, 331–2.
124 LR III, 10–12, 20–2. Her rights were also at issue in parallel suits involving the new
owners of Forest Hill.
125 Public Record Office Composition Papers, SP 23/110, 595–7. The petition proper is
first dated July 11, then July 16; this note, with a copy of Milton’s note below it,
appears on a cover page, dated July 16. She stipulates that she brought £3,000 to her
late husband, but now has only an estate (Wheatley) worth £80, which is attached by
Milton for his debt, and from which she has only her thirds of £26.13.4 “to maintaine
her selfe and 8 children.” While she is clearly in some straits, she then had only four
children under 20; presumably the others were not dependent on her.
126 For three more years Anne Powell continued her suits for reimbursement for the
illegal seizures at Forest Hill, and on May 4, 1654 finally obtained a judgment ordering
a rebate of £192.4.1 to be paid to her or to her son Richard, once John Pye paid his
fine to compound for the Forest Hill property (LR III, 374).
127 [John Rowland], Pro Rege [Apology for the king and people of England, against the
Defence, destructive of king and people of England, by John the multifarious, alias
Milton the Englishman] (Antwerp, 1651). The work was often wrongly ascribed to
John Bramhall, former Bishop of Derry.
128 Pro Rege, sig. . 4v.
129 CPW IV.2, 890–91. There is no real contradiction between John’s claim that he
volunteered for the task and Edward’s statement that Milton “committed this task to
the youngest of his Nephews.”
130 See Robert Ayers’s introduction to Phillips’s Responsio, CPW IV.2, 875–85, and Parker,
II, revd, 1,219. There are no references to any event later than September and the
mention of Charles vanishing “into a loud fart” alludes to his disappearance after the
Battle of Worcester (September 3).
131 John Phillips, Responsio [The response of John Phillips, Englishman, to the most puerile
Apology for the King and People of England by some anonymous sneak] (London, 1652
[1651]). It was published by Dugard, who dated it to the next year as was usual with
Notes to Chapter 8