Notes to Chapter 1“Mr Miltons bookes as they shall judge necessary to be spread in those parts.” George
Wither also made use of Tenure in G. W., Respublica Anglicana (London, 1650, c.
October 28), 38–41.
94 An allusion on p. 208 to Anthony Ascham’s murder in Madrid, news of which reached
England on June 19, proves its publication after that date. A presentation copy, now at
the British Library, is inscribed (not in Milton’s hand) “Ex dono authoris G. Dury.”
This is Giles Dury, elder of the French church and associated with St Martin in the
Fields. A copy now in Trinity College, Cambridge belonged to Richard Vaughan,
Earl of Carbery and (from 1652) husband of Alice Egerton, the Lady of Comus. An-
other copy, now in the Beinecke Library, Yale, is inscribed in Latin as the gift of John
Phillips to John Barker.
95 [ Joseph Jane] Eikon Aklastos (London, 1651, c. April), 4, 28, 267. A later answer to
Milton, in Latin, was Carolus I, Britannorum Rex (Dublin, 1652), attributed to Claude
Morisot, who took some material from the court physician George Bate’s anonymous
defense of the king in Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia (Paris, 1650). Bate’s 1650
edition does not mention Milton, though the second and successive editions in 1661
do.
96 LR III, 31, 279. The work was published in London, c. November 20, 1652, for
distribution in France: Eikonoklastes, ou réponse au Livre intitulé Eikon Basilike (LR III,
159–60).
97 An official journal, A Brief Relation of Some Affaires and Transactions, was begun in
September, 1649 by the council’s direction, and edited by its secretary, Gualter Frost.
98 The Stationers Register, 1640–1708 indicates the journal’s irregular registration: num-
bers 1–10 ( June 13–August 15) and numbers 19–32 (October 17–January 16, 1651)
were not registered at all; numbers 11–12 (22–9 August), numbers 13–15 (September
5–19), and numbers 16–18 (September 16–October 10) were registered “by permis-
sion of authority” at irregular intervals. Milton may have been the “authority” that
registered the newsletter from its inception, but probably not, since he was then hard
at work on the Defensio.
99 Milton’s name appears once only as licenser for The Perfect Diurnall (October 6, 1651).
100 Mylius, agent for the Count of Oldenburg, arrived in London in late August. An entry
in his Tagebuch indicates that Christopher Arnold told him on August 30 that Milton
was out of town; he mentions Milton’s return on October 15 and in a letter to Milton
the next day writes that he has “long wished your return” (CPW IV.2, 828). See
below, pp. 260–4, and Leo Miller, John Milton and the Oldenburg Safeguard (New York,
1985), 26, 310.
101 Phillips mentions Nedham as one of the “particular Friends that had a high esteem”
for Milton and often visited him during the period – mid-December, 1651 to 1660 –
when he lived in Petty France (EL 78). Anthony à Wood (EL 44) dates the friendship
to before September, 1651, when, he reports, “it was the usual practice of Marchm.
Nedham a great crony of Milton, to abuse Salmasius in his publick Mercury called
Politicus (as Milton had done before in his Defensio).” See Worden, “Milton and
Marchamont Nedham,” in Armitage, et. al, Milton and Republicanism, 156–80.
102 CPW V.2, 529–31. For the council’s order, see n. 10. On April 23 the council or-
dered that a letter to Guimarães be translated into Latin – probably by Milton, though
he is not explicitly named. Patrick argues persuasively (CPW V.2, 546–50) for Milton’s
Notes to Chapter 8