Notes to Chapter 1religious toleration if he could, as evidenced by apparent gestures of encoding and con-
tradiction. In a persuasive rejoinder, Martin Dzelzainis, “Milton’s Of True Religion and
the Earl of Castlemaine,” The Seventeenth Century 7 (1992), 53–69, denies that claim.
75 Ray Tumbleson makes this point in “Of True Religion and False Politics: Milton and
the Uses of Anti-Catholicism,” Prose Studies 15 (1992), 262.
76 CSPD, 1675–6, p. 89. The author may have been a Quaker.
77 Poems, &. Upon Several Occasions. Both English and Latin, &. Composed at Several Times.
With a small Tractate of Education To Mr. Hartlib (London, 1673). The publisher/book-
seller is Thomas Dring. The printer is probably William Rawlins, identified as W. R.
on the separate title page of the Latin poems: Joannis Miltoni Londinensis Poemata. Quo-
rum pleraque intra Annum aetatis Vigesimum Conscripsit (London, 1673). The work is listed
in the Term Catalogue licensed November 24, 1673 (I, 151).
78 See chapter 1, pp. 10–11, chapter 2, pp. 26–8, 32.
79 See chapter 7, pp. 209–10, 213–14 and chapter 9, pp. 297–8.
80 See chapter 7, p. 215, chapter 9, pp. 286–7, chapter 10, p. 355.
81 See chapter 7, pp. 226–8.
82 James had two daughters by his first marriage to Anne Hyde, Clarendon’s daughter,
who were being raised as Protestants.
83 See chapter 7, pp. 213–14.
84 They were not published until 1743, under the title Original Letters and Papers of State,
Addressed to Oliver Cromwell. Concerning the Affairs of Great Britain. From the Year MDCXLIX
to MDCLVIII. Found among the Political Collections of Mr. John Milton, ed. John Nicholls
(London, 1743). The preface claims that they “had long been treasured up by the
famous Milton” who perhaps intended to use them in some “particular or general his-
tory of his times,” and from him came into the possession of Ellwood and then Ellwood’s
biographer and editor (p. iv). The collection contains some private documents and
letters by and to Cromwell, as well as letters of state from 1649 to 1658. The last one is
addressed to Richard Cromwell after his accession.
85 This is Toland’s information (EL 188).
86 Joannis Miltonii Angli, Epistolarum Familiarium Liber Unus: Quibus Accesserunt, Ej ́usdem,
jam olim in Collegio Adolescentis, Prolusiones Quaedam Oratoriae (London, 1674), sigs A 3–
A 3v. The volume is listed in the Term Calalogue, licensed May 26, 1674 (I, 17); it was
registered July 1 (SR 1640–1708, II, 181).
87 See chapter 2, pp. 28–34, 43–5.
88 Epistolarum Familiarium, sig. A 3v.
89 John Milton, A Brief History of Moscovia: And of other less-known Countries lying eastward of
Russia as far as Cathay. Gather’d from the Writings of several Eye-Witnesses (London, 1682),
sig. A 4v. See chapter 7, p. 212.
90 See chapter 12, p. 416 and notes 85 and 86.
91 Elzevier’s 1674 catalogue listed several of Milton’s earlier Latin books: the 1645 Poemata,
the Defensio, the Defensio Secunda, and the Defensio Pro Se (LR V, 69).
92 Milton probably intended to have a clean copy of the entire manuscript, but after
Milton’s death, Skinner perhaps declined to put himself to the trouble of doing that but
did copy a few additional pages that were especially illegible. See chapter 12, p. 416 and
note 82.
93 Adam Littleton’s Linguae Latinae liber dictionarius quadripartitus. A Latine dictionary, in four
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