Notes to Chapter 187 The Case of the Armie Truly Stated... Humbly proposed by the Agents of five Regiments of
Horse... October 15, 1647 (London, 1647), 4–5. For the June 14 Declaration and
copies of army petitions to and responses from parliament in 1647, see A Declaration of
the Engagements, Remonstrances, etc. (London, 1647).
88 Case of the Army, 15; An Agreement of the People... As it was proposed by... the Generall
Approbation of the Army, Offered to the joynt Concurrence of all the Free Commons of England
(London, 1647, c. November 3).
89 For the text of the Putney Debates, see A. S. P. Woodhouse, ed., Puritanism and Liberty
(Chicago, 1951), pp. 1–124.
90 The psalms are dated April, 1648 in Milton’s 1673 Poems, the only early text and the
one I quote from.
91 See William B. Hunter, “Milton Translates the Psalms,” PQ 40 (1961), 485–94, for
the first suggestion; John K. Hale, “Why Did Milton Translate Psalms 80–88 in April
1648?” Literature and History III (1994), 55–62, emphasizes the formal considerations as
well as Milton’s broad paralleling of England with Israel at this time.
92 See Margaret Boddy, “Milton’s Translation of Psalms 80–88,” Modern Philology 64
(1966), 1–9.
93 Psalm 82, ll. 1–8. Cf. 82:1–2 in the AV: “GOD standeth in the congregations of the
mighty; he judgeth among the gods. / How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the
persons of the wicked?”
94 Psalm 85, 33–40, 53–6. In the AV, verse 13 (which the last four lines paraphrase and
expand) is rendered simply: “Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the
way of his steps.”
95 Death is ordained for those who “by Preaching, Teaching, Printing or Writing, main-
tain and publish that there is no God, or that God is not present in all Places, doth not
know and foreknow all Things... or that the FATHER is not GOD, the SON is not
GOD, or that the HOLY GHOST is not GOD, or that They Three are not One
Eternal GOD; or that shall in like manner maintain and publish that CHRIST is not
GOD equal with the FATHER, or shall deny the Manhood of CHRIST... or that... CHRIST is not the SON of GOD... or that the Bodies of Men shall not rise
again after they are dead; or that there is no Day of Judgment after Death.” Those who
maintain or publish, and refuse to renounce, such Errors as “that Man by Nature hath
Free-Will to turn to GOD,” that there is a Purgatory, that “the Baptizing of Infants is
unlawful,” that observation of the Lord’s day is not obligatory, or that “the Church-
Government by Presbytery is Anti-Christian or unlawful” are to be imprisoned. Jour-
nal of the House of Lords, X, 240–1.
96 This date is confirmed by Milton’s present-tense reference to the “fals North” and
their “broken League.” By their July 8 invasion Scotland broke the Solemn League
and Covenant binding them to support parliament; their defeat on August 17 had not
yet occurred. The sonnet is in Milton’s hand in the Trinity manuscript, from which I
quote.
97 Known as the Treaty of Newport.
98 BL Add Ms 32.320.
99 The parish records of St Giles in the Fields note the baptism of “Mary, daughter of
John Milton, Esq., and Mary, his wife” (LR II, 220).
100 A Remonstrance of His Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, Lord General of the Parliaments
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