Notes to Chapter 1stirred up by the pope and Spain; the counsels of the Spanish “are again devising for the
Waldensians of the Alps that same slaughter and ruin which they most cruelly brought
upon them last year”; the German Protestants under the emperor are under siege; and
“we ourselves are occupied with a war against Spain” (CPW V.2, 756–9).
62 CPW V.2, 755. The letter was perhaps sent with Christiern Bonde when he departed
soon after August 21. There is no day date.
63 Cited in Fallon, Milton in Government, 173–5. As Fallon argues, Bonde’s reports indicate
that Milton worked on the entire treaty and its various drafts. It is published in CM
XIII, 564–91, but not in CPW.
64 Bulstrode Whitelocke, Memorials of the English Affairs, from the Beginning of the Reign of
Charles the First to the Happy Restoration of King Charles the Second, 4 vols (Oxford, l853),
IV, 257.
65 J. P., Sportive Wit (London, 1656). This work was said to have been collected by “a
Club of sparkling Wits, viz. C. J. B. F. J. M. W. T”; the Epistle Dedicatory is signed J.
P. The book was registered March 17, 1656 and published soon after.
66 Reported in Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londres, no. 309, p. 1,238 (May 1, 1656).
67 CPW I, 818. See chapter 5, p. 151.
68 Edward published the Montalbán novels together under the titles The Illustrious Shep-
herdess and The Imperious Brother (London, 1656, c. February 12). They were dedicated
to aristocratic ladies in a bid for patronage. William Drummond of Hawthornden,
Poems, ed. E[dward] P[hillips] (London, 1656).
69 The transcription in Milton’s presentation copy of Eikonoklastes (MS 4o Rawl. 408),
“ex dono Authoris. Jun. XI. MDCLVI,” seems to be in the hand of Thomas Barlow,
who had succeeded Rouse as librarian in 1652. See chapter 8, note 79. For Edward
Phillips’s changes of residence see Parker, II, 989–90.
70 E. P., The Mysteries of Love & Eloquence: Or, the Arts of Wooing and Complementing (Lon-
don, 1658). This work also draws on Thomas Blount’s Glossographia (London, 1656).
Among the Milton borrowings are some heads of chapters, many particular examples, a
much-condensed final chapter on Ramist method, and a concluding section insisting
that the poet reaches beyond the usual methods for greater effect and power. For Milton’s
Artis Logicae see chapter 7, p. 208, and chapter 14, pp. 497–8.
71 See William Godwin, Lives of Edward and John Phillips (London, 1815). John Phillips
may have edited Wit and Drollery (London, 1656, c. January 18); the preface is signed J.
P.
72 The Latin is “mihi omnium necessitudinum loco fuit,” CM XII, 78–83. Her departure
and the delivery of this letter were delayed, as her pass for Ireland was not granted until
October 7 (CSPD, 1656–7, p. 583).
73 LR IV, 118–19; the album is in the Bibliothek der Vadiana, Stadtbibliothek, St Gall,
Switzerland. “Joannis Milto” is on one line; about half an inch below, “nius.”
74 [Henry Vane], A Healing Question Propounded and resolved upon occasion of the late publique
and seasonable Call to Humiliation, in order to love and union among the honest party, and with
a desire to apply Balsoms to the wound, before it becomes incurable (London, 1656). It was
registered with the Stationers on May 28.
75 Vane insisted that the right to parliamentary elections is “the natural right which the
whole party of Honest men adhering to this Cause, are by successe of their Arms re-
stored unto, and may claim as their undeniable privilege” (4); that sovereignty must be
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