Notes to Chapter 1and Presses by the late Merciless Tyrant Oliver Cromwell durst not be sold publickly in this
Kingdom (London, 1660), 22.
21 Salmasius (Claude Saumaise), Ad Joannem Miltonum responsio, opus posthumum (Dijon,
1660). The dedication to Charles II was dated September 1. The English edition, Claudii
Salmasii ad Johannem Miltonum Responsio, Opus Posthumum (London, 1660), was regis-
tered in London on September 19, and advertised as newly published in Mercurius
Publicus 49 (November 29–December 6, 1660), 785. Thomason acquired it in Decem-
ber.
22 Ad Johannem Miltonum Responsio, 2–5, 8, 21, 218; LR IV, 344–8.
23 One tract that insisted he not be allowed to escape scot-free given all his malice and
wickedness was A Rope for Pol, or a Hue and Cry after Marchemont Needham, the late scurril-
ous newswriter; being a Collection of his horrid Blasphemies against the King’s Majesty, his person,
his cause, and his friends, published in his weekly Politicus (London, 1660, September 7).
24 Colonel Thomas Harrison, John Carew, John Cook (one of the king’s prosecutors),
Hugh Peters, Major Thomas Scott, Gregory Clements, Colonel Adrian Scroope, and
Colonel John Jones were executed at Charing Cross; Captain Daniel Axtell and Colo-
nel Francis Hacker at Tyburn. The other regicides remained in prison under sentence
of execution, though it was not carried out; many died there.
25 Milton was still at large on August 13 since the Proclamation of that date claimed he
had absconded and was unreachable. Masson’s guess that he was apprehended during
the parliamentary recess is plausible, since his friends were not then at hand to protect
him.
26 The pardon is entered on page 65 of the 98-page docket for December: PRO Dockets
Signet Office, Index 6812: “December 1660. A pardon granted to John Milton of the
parish of St. Giles in the field in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman. Signed by Mr.
Secr. Nicholas.” The pardons were probably listed in the order of granting. See Com-
mons Journal VIII, 208; and Davies, “Milton in 1660,” 359.
27 Parliamentary or Constitutional History of England, IV, col. 162. The Commons ordered
the committee to call Milton and the sergeant before them, “to determine what is fit to
be given the Serjeant for his Fees.” Commons Journal VIII, 209.
28 Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. James Sutherland (Ox-
ford, 1973), 362.
29 See R. S. Bosher, The Making of the Restoration Settlement: The Influence of the Laudians,
1649–1652 (New York, 1951), 143–218. This plan looks back to proposals of Arch-
bishop James Ussher in the early 1640s (see chapter 5, p. 129), and to similar recent
schemes of Richard Baxter.
30 Commons Journal VIII, 247. See Ronald Hutton, The Restoration (Oxford, 1985), 150–1.
31 Phillips writes that Milton, after receiving his pardon, “stay’d not long” in Holborn
Street before he “remov’d to Jewin Street” (EL 71).
32 Mercurius Publicus, 4 (January 24–31, 1661), 64.
33 Translation mine. [George Bate], Elenchi Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia (London, 1661,
c. January), 237–8. In the first edition (1650) this passage does not appear. Starkey’s
Dignity of Kingship was republished as Monarchy Triumphing over Traiterous Republicans.
Or the Transcendent Excellency of that Divine Government fully proved against the utopian
Chimeras of our Ridiculous Commonwealthmen (London, 1661). See chapter 11, pp. 377–
8.
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