Notes to Chapter 1late-year publications. The text is translated in CPW IV.2, 889–961; the copy in BL
(599.a.22) identifies John Phillips as “Milton’s Amanuensis.”
132 Mylius recorded Christopher Arnold’s remark to him at the Old Exchange in West-
minster, that Milton was some “vier meilen von hinnen”; since the German meile is
approximately four kilometers this would be approximately the distance of Hammer-
smith. See Miller, John Milton and the Oldenburg Safeguard, 310.
133 Parker, II, 992, quotes a leading opthalmologist of the seventeenth century, François
Thévenin, on these cures. See also J. Holly Hanford, “John Milton Forswears Physic,”
Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 32 (1944), 23–34.
134 CPW IV.2, 835. Edward Phillips (EL 71) speculates about reasons for the move:
“whether he thought [the Whitehall apartment] not healthy, or otherwise convenient
for his use, or whatever else was the reason.”
135 EL 71. Plate 10 is a nineteenth-century engraving of the house published in Illustrated
London News ( January 9, 1874), 21, shortly before the house was demolished in 1877.
In the nineteenth century the house was owned by Jeremy Bentham, whose tenant
from 1811 was William Hazlitt. John Stuart Mill also lived there.
136 Among them: Georg Weckherlin (the former Secretary for Foreign Languages), Samuel
Hartlib, Theodore Haak, Sir Oliver Fleming, Christopher Arnold, Gualter Frost, and
Henry Neville.
137 Miller in Oldenburg Safeguard translates relevant sections of the Tagebuch and analyzes
the Milton–Mylius relationship.
138 Oliver Fleming explained this to Mylius on October 20; the rule was meant to prevent
bribery, undue influence, or revelation of secret matters (Miller, Oldenburg Safeguard,
62).
139 It was headed by Bulstrode Whitelocke, keeper of the Great Seal, and included Henry
Vane, Henry Mildmay, and John Trevor.
140 Miller, Oldenburg Safeguard, 62–7. On the same day Mylius wrote to Weckherlin that
he had at last heard in council the “great Milton.” Weckherlin had praised Milton to
Mylius in a letter of October 6: “When they discharged me, they replaced me with a
man of the highest esteem, Mr. Milton, who has already often edited state papers, also
writing against Salmasius and against the King.... He is a sound man, learned in Latin
and Greek and especially Italian” (Miller, Oldenburg Safeguard, 69, 53–4).
141 On October 25 Milton was summoned to the council meeting, presumably to hear
Whitelocke’s scheduled report on the Oldenburg negotiations. On the 27th Milton
was asked to find out what “Mr White” intended in proposing a second impression
with “some additionalls” to his book, for which Frost was ordered to pay White £50.
This is almost certainly The Life and Reigne of King Charles (London, 1652, c. January
29), in part also an answer to the king’s book; this second edition notes (179) that
Eikon Basilike has already been sufficiently handled in Eikonoklastes “without mittens
by a Gentleman of such abilities as gives place to none for his integrity, learning, and
judgment.”
142 CPW IV.2, 831–2. Mylius promptly sent the drafts back to Milton for future refer-
ence, along with an effusive letter of thanks. He noted in his Tagebuch his worry that
Milton is not dealing directly with his affair – “it is not to my liking.” Progress was
slowed by reports that the Count of Oldenburg was negotiating with Scottish royalists
in The Hague, which Mylius had to refute with elaborate documentation. Mylius had
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