Notes to Chapter 147 Andrew Marvell, The Rehearsal Transpros’d: The Second Part (London, 1673), 379. Marvell
is answering Parker’s treatise, A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transpros’d (London, 1671). See
chapter 14, pp. 499–501.
48 Gauden’s letter to Clarendon of January 21, 1660 (1661) claims that “what goes under
the late blessed King’s name, the Eikon or Portraiture of hys Majesty in hys Solitudes
and sufferings... was wholy and only my invention... which I sent to the King in the
Isle of Wight... hys Majesty graciously accepted, owned, and adoped it as hys sense
and genius”: Catalogue of the Clarendon State Papers, ed. O. Ogle et al., 5 vols (Oxford,
1892), III, Supplement, xxvii–xxx. See chapter 8, pp. 247–8.
49 In 1660 he published a new edition and continuation of Baker’s Chronicle to 1658, A
Continuation of the Chronicle of England to the end of the year 1658... more especially relating
unto the transactions of Charles, crowned King of the Scots at Scone on the first day of January,
1650 (London, 1660), which treats Charles I with sympathy throughout, and assumes
that Charles II is the rightful ruler of the realm. John Phillips published several works of
Restoration buffoonery, among them Montelion, 1660, or The Prophetical Almanack (Lon-
don, 1660), and Don Juan Lamberto, or a Comical History of the late Times (London, 1660).
There is no indication that John kept up much contact with his uncle.
50 Thomas Ellwood, The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood, ed. J[oseph] W[yeth] (Lon-
don, 1714), 131–7.
51 See the pre-dating of several poems in the 1645 Poems, chapter 7, p. 228.
52 The marriage allegation, dated February 11, reads: “which day personally appeared
John Milton, of ye parish of St. Giles, cripplegate, London, Gent., aged about 50 yeares
and a Widdower, and alledged that he intendeth to marry with Elizabeth Minshull, of
ye parish of St. Andrew, Holborne, in ye county of Midd., Mayden, aged about 25
years and att her owne disposing, and that he knoweth of noe lawfull lett or impedi-
ment by reason of any precontract, consanguinity, affinity, or otherwise, to hinder the
said intended marriage, and of ye truth hereof he offered to make oath, & prayed
Licence to be marryed in ye parish church of St. George in ye Borough of Southwark,
or St. Mary Aldermary in London” (Allegations for Marriage Licenses issued from the Faculty
Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury at London, 1543–1869, Harleian Society XXIV
(London, 1886), 68). Masson (VI, 475) reproduces a facsimile of Milton’s signature.
53 The Registers of St. Mary Aldermary, London... 1558 to 1754, ed. J. L. Chester, Harleian
Society, Registers V (London, 1880), 30: “John Milton of the Parish of St. Gyles
Crippellgate and Elizabeth Minshall of the parish of St. Andrews Holborne married by
licence the 24th of February, 1662 [1663].”
54 This is Thomas Newton’s hearsay information “from a gentleman who had seen his
widow in Cheshire.” See his “Life of Milton,” prefixed to his edition of Paradise Lost: A
Poem, in Twelve Books, 2 vols (London, 1749), I, 252–3, n. 305.
55 This house, in the area known as “Cripplegate Parish without the Freedom,” was taxed
at “four hearths” in 1674 (Masson, VI, 483–4). The time of the move is put in some
question by the fact that in September, 1665 Milton was listed as being 18 months in
arrears for taxes on a house having “eight herths” in Cripplegate Ward extra, Redcrosse
Street (the Jewin Street house, which stood close to Redcross Street). But the tax
collector may not have known of Milton’s move when he reported the overdue taxes.
Though Edward Phillips’s chronology is often vague after 1663, his association of this
move with Milton’s third marriage is plausible; also, the fact that Cyriack Skinner’s
Notes to Chapter 12