The Life of John Milton: A Critical Biography

Index

Plato, Platonic con’t
417, 444, 448–9, 458, 459, 467, 491–2,
495, 515, 520–1, 538, 552n15, 592n17
Platonism, Neoplatonism 51, 62, 74, 76, 77,
81, 91, 102, 152, 480, 481
Pliny 584n26
Plutarch 10, 175, 584n26
Pocock, J. G. A. 648n81, 652n125
Polybius 275, 346, 578n86
Pontano, Giovanni 46, 555n47
Pontia see Guerret, Elizabeth
Poole, Kristen 589n92, 603n19
Poole, Matthew 659n42
Pope, Elizabeth M. 700n112
Popkin, Richard H. 670n35
Pory, John 552n13, 559n90
Pory, Richard 18, 490
Potter, Lois 619n55, 682n16
Powell family 206–7, 210, 221, 239, 300
Powell, Anne (Milton’s mother-in-law)
184, 206–7, 257–8, 607nn64, 65, 608nn67,
68, 625nn124–6, 639n119, 651n109
Powell, Richard (Milton’s father-in-law)
26, 156–7, 184, 206–7, 537, 554n40,
569n91, 582n11, 591n6, 606nn46, 47,
607n65, 625n125
Presbyterians, Presbyterianism 5, 56, 120,
122, 127–9, 142, 144, 146, 155, 161–2,
176, 178, 180, 181, 195, 201–6, 213,
231–4, 238, 240–1, 246, 249–50, 267,
283–4, 304, 320, 357, 361, 366, 374–6,
391–2, 396, 585n42, 603n17, 605nn37, 38,
612n120, 629n181, 655n9, 663n82,
667n129; see also Westminster Assembly
Press Acts (1642-3) 161, 180, 190–245,
594nn37, 38, 599n102; An Act Against
Unlicensed and Scandalous Books (1649)
45, 245; Press Acts (1655) 332, 336,
645n43; Press Act (1662) 406
Pride, Thomas 216, 401; Pride’s
Purge 216, 220, 276, 375, 611n101
Prince, F. T. 558n81, 564n35, 591n13
Pritchard, Allen 574n44, 576n59
Pro Rege... Apologia see John Rowland
Propertius 12, 16, 553n27
Prudentius, Hymns 46, 66
Prynne, William 55, 126, 179, 183, 206,
224, 365, 375–6, 387, 400, 490, 582n9,

599n94, 612n120, 621n91, 632n16,

633nn17–19, 658nn29, 33, 659n39;

Histrio-mastix 58, 59, 562n16, 563n18,

685n66

Publick Intelligencer 645n43, 655n5

Purchas, Samuel 21; Purchas his Pilgrimes

160, 212, 593n31

Puteanus, Erycius [Henrik van der Put],

Comus 569n94

Puttenham, George, Arte of English Poesie

570n105

Pym, John 126, 135, 406

Quakers 284, 299, 340, 341, 404, 406, 410,

415, 438, 443–4, 490, 659n41, 692n17; see

also Fox, George; Nayler, James; Ellwood,

Thomas; Pennington, Isaac

Quarles, Francis 551n8

Quint, David 682n8, 683n29, 684n32,

689nn108, 124

Quintilian 10, 20, 137, 153

Racovian Catechism 253, 284–5, 317, 424,

621n92, 632nn30, 33, 34, 677nn116, 119;

see also Socinians

Radzinowicz, Mary Ann 637n99, 688n100,

689n115, 691n11, 701n123

Rainoldes, John 585n48

Rajan, Balachandra 471, 690n128

Raleigh, Sir Walter 160, 320, 593nn31, 34,

653n138

Ramism, Ramist 20, 22 208, 490 607nn54,

56, 647n70

Ramsey, R. L. 607n63

Ramus, Petrus 207–8, 498; Dialecticae 208,

490, 607nn55, 56, 59, 60

Randolph, Thomas 18, 43

Ranelagh, Katherine Jones, Viscountess

199, 283–4, 332–3, 336–7, 408, 410, 460,

602n5, 647n72, 650n103; see also Boyle

family

Ranters 250, 284, 299, 341, 361, 385, 434,

533, 620n75; see also Coppe, Abiezer;

Clarkson, Lawrence

Rashi 167

Ravenscroft, Thomas I. 549n12

Raylor, Timothy 597n73, 651n115

Raymond, Joad 616n23, 617n40, 618n45