Notes to Chapter 111 These four songs and six new ones appeared in a manuscript collection (1616) by Tho-
mas Myriell called Tristitiae Remedium (BL Add Ms 29,372-29-377), and some of them
in another anonymous collection of the same year. On Milton’s early musical associa-
tions and experience see John Harper, “‘One equal music’: The Music of Milton’s
Youth,” MQ 31 (1997), 1–10.
12 Thomas Ravenscroft, The Whole Book of Psalmes, London, 1621, 1633.
13 Chronology, 18.
14 Milton senior’s sonnet is affixed to Lane’s unpublished poem “Sir Guy Earle of War-
wick.” The manuscript, BL Harleian Ms 5243, is dated 1617.
15 Register of All Hallows, 169. There may have been other undocumented stillbirths or
infant deaths before the poet’s birth.
16 Skinner has been persuasively identified as author of this early biography of Milton by
Parker (Milton I, xiv) and by Peter Beal in Index of Literary Manuscripts, vol. II.2 (Lon-
don, 1993), 85–6. Edward Phillips had little direct knowledge of his grandmother: he
was only 6 years old when she died, and got her family name wrong (EL 18, 52).
17 William Kerrigan, The Sacred Complex (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1983), 177–80,
argues that this association of blindness with his maternal (female) inheritance had a
strong impact on Milton’s relations with women.
18 Stock’s funeral sermon preached by Thomas Gataker, Abraham’s Decease (London, 1626)
affords a basis for this characterization, as do many of his writings, e.g. A Sermon Preached
at Paules Crosse (London, 1609) and The Doctrine and Use of Repentance (London, 1610).
19 James I was censured severely for failing to support his daughter, Elizabeth, and her
husband Frederick, the Elector Palatine, after they lost Bohemia and much of the Pa-
latinate in 1620 to the forces of Spain and the Holy Roman Emperor.
20 For an analysis of the annotations and underlinings, and speculations about provenance,
see Cedric C. Brown, “A King James Bible, Protestant Nationalism, and Boy Milton,”
in Form and Reform in Renaissance England: Essays in Honor of Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, eds.
Amy Boesky and Mary Thomas Crane (Newark, NJ, 2000), 271–87.
21 Cited by Arthur Barker, “Milton’s Schoolmasters,” Modern Language Review 32 (1937),
- Another teacher may have been Patrick Young, at the time Prebendary and Treas-
urer of St Paul’s; Franciscus Junius later referred to Milton as his “disciple.”
22 Milton was 10 years old in 1618, so Aubrey’s date is also inconsistent. Young came to
London sometime before 1612. Exactly when he became pastor at Ware is not known;
he may have combined his pastoral and tutorial duties for a time, before taking up an
appointment in Hamburg in 1620. His sabbatarian tract Dies Dominica was published
pseudonymously in 1639, and in 1640–2 he was primary author of several
“Smectymnuan” tracts against Bishop Joseph Hall and prelacy (see chapter 5, pp. 128–
31). He was master of Jesus College, Cambridge from 1644 to 1650, at which point he
was ejected for refusing to take the Engagement to the new Commonwealth. Conceiv-
ably, the reference to a schoolmaster in Essex indicates that Milton had another tutor
from Essex, or was tutored in Essex for a time.
23 Though the subject and painter cannot be identified with absolute certainty, tradition
and the preponderance of evidence points to Milton as subject. See Leo Miller, “Milton’s
Portraits,” Milton Quarterly (special issue, 1976), 3–9.
24 CPW I, 311; Elegy IV, ll. 29–32: “Primus ego Aonios illo praeunte recessus / Lustrabam,
& bifidi sacra vireta jugi, / Pieriosque hausi latices, Clioque favente / Castalio sparsi