Notes to Chapter 1biography mentions only Bunhill as Milton’s residence after he left Petty France sug-
gests that he did not stay long in Jewin Street. Parker’s speculation that Milton moved
after his daughters left home, c. 1669, has no evidentiary support and seems implausible.
56 Artillery Walk is indicated by an arrow.
57 Newton, “Life of Milton,” I, xlix, had this information from Milton’s granddaugh-
ter, Elizabeth Foster, who had it from her mother. Newton claims that Elizabeth
Foster confirmed several facts which he took from Birch’s “Life of Milton.” See note
39.
58 Newton reported that visitors to Elizabeth Milton confirmed Milton’s seasonal com-
posing habits (“Life of Milton,” I, lvi). For Milton’s fears about England’s cold climate,
see Mansus, ll. 27–9, 35–8, and PL 9.44–6.
59 EL 6, 12. Richardson heard from some who visited Milton’s daughter Deborah in later
life that “He was Delightful Company, the Life of the Conversation, and That on
Account of a Flow of Subject, and an Unaffected Chearfulness and Civility” (EL 229).
60 EL 6, 194; Newton, “Life of Milton,” I, lviii; his source was Milton’s granddaughter,
Elizabeth Foster.
61 Newton, “Life of Milton,” I, xlviii, li. “Olives” was a dish of rolled meat slices.
62 Evelyn noted in his Diary that “This Gent: was nephew to Milton, who writ against
Salmasius’s ‘Defensio,’ but not at all infected with his principles... though brought up
by him”: The Diary, ed. E. S. de Beer, 5 vols (Oxford, 1955), III, 365. In Evelyn’s fine
library Phillips was preparing the fourth edition of Richard Baker’s Chronicle, recasting
and rewriting his earlier Continuation to include the events of the Restoration to the
coronation of Charles II in 1661.
63 Milton’s widow claimed to have been his amanuensis at times (Newton, “Life of Milton,”
I, lvi–lviii).
64 Newton, “Life of Milton,” I, lvii. Richardson heard what sounds like an embroidery
on this story, in which the post was said to be that of Latin Secretary and an exchange
between Milton and his wife is imagined: “Milton Withstood the Offer; the Wife press’d
his Compliance. Thou art in the Right (says he) You, as Other Women, would ride in your
Coach; for Me, My Aim is to Live and Dye an Honest man” (EL 280).
65 “An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles,” Anno Regni Caroli II...
Decimo Sexto (London, 1664). Any who returned before seven years would be subject
to death. Quakers were to be jailed and transported for refusing to take judicial oaths.
66 “An Act for Restraining Non-Conformists from Inhabiting in Corporations,” Anno
Regni Caroli II... .XVII (London, 1665).
67 Bodleian, Ms Rawlinson E. 69, 21.
68 James Heath, A Brief Chronicle of the Late Intestine War in the Three Kingdoms (London,
1660), 435 ; the attack was reprinted in 1664. George Bate’s sneering reference (see
p. 405) was also reprinted in 1663. Milton’s works were also prominently mentioned in
Cabala, or an Impartial Account of the Non-Conformists Private Designs, Actings, and Ways.
From August 24, 1662 to December 25 in the same year (London, 1663), 11–12, a bur-
lesque of several major Nonconformist writers. As “Blind Milton” he was also ridiculed
in the almanac Poor Robin for the years 1664–70 (see LR IV, 397).
69 Roger L’Estrange, Toleration Discussed (London, 1663), 34. L’Estrange, Considerations
and Proposals In Order to the Regulation of the Press: Together with Diverse Instances of Trea-
sonous, and Seditious Pamphlets, proving the Necessity thereof (London, 1663, June 3).
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