Notes to Chapter 1History of the Parliament of England, which began November the third, MDCXL (London,
1647), May associated the Long Parliament’s cause with Lucan’s noble republicans (I,
14, 20; III, 30–1). After the Restoration May was disinterred from Westminster Abbey
along with other notorious supporters of the republic. See David Norbrook, Writing the
English Republic (Cambridge, 1999), 23–62.
32 Lucan, Pharsalia, trans. J. D. Duff (Cambridge, Mass., 1928). For analysis of the many
debts and echoes, see Norbrook, Writing the English Republic, 438–67; and Quint, Epic
and Empire, 255–6, 305, 307.
33 For the challenge offered by these necessary collaborations to the idea of the solitary
author, see Stephen B. Dobranski, Milton, Authorship, and the Book Trade (Cambridge,
1999), 33–40.
34 The manuscript is in the Pierpont Morgan Library (MA 307), a very legible fair copy.
According to Peter Beal, ed., Index of English Literary Manuscripts (London, 1993), II, 2,
95, and 103, the amanuensis who copied it also made an entry in Milton’s Common-
place Book (p. 249). Corrections in other hands, on 33 quarto pages, are chiefly by
Edward Phillips, but also others. The printer evidently preserved the Book I manuscript
because it bore the license to publish and notation of entry in the Stationers Register.
See note 73.
35 Ellwood, Life, 234.
36 Samuel Pepys, Diary, ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols (London,
1970; rpt. 1985), VII, 31–2.
37 About the time Milton returned, the authorities were turning that plague pit into a
cemetery for dissenters, which was to hold John Bunyan and William Blake, among
many others (Masson, VI, 499–500).
38 Parker, revd edn, II, 1,104.
39 Chronology, 203–4.
40 See especially Marvell’s lines 142–6, which echo PL 2.747–802. Marvell’s poem is
dated September 4, 1667 in Bodleian Mss Eng. poet. d. 49; Milton’s poem was prob-
ably not available in print until some weeks later (Chronology, 206).
41 Pepys, Diary, VI, 122–3.
42 Ibid., VII, 247–9.
43 See chapter 10, p. 342.
44 CM XII, 316–19; trans. CPW VIII, 2–3.
45 For example, Heimbach had used the term suspicio as meaning “respect”; Milton puns
on its more usual contemporary meaning, “to suspect.”
46 CM XII, 112–15; trans. CPW VIII, 3–4.
47 Ellwood, Life, 314. Ellwood discusses that visit immediately after reporting Milton’s
return from Chalfont, but Ellwood was in prison again from March 13 to June 25, so
the visit almost certainly occurred sometime after June.
48 David Ogg, England in the Reign of Charles II, 2 vols (Oxford, 1934), I, 305.
49 Pepys, Diary, VII, 270–5.
50 Ibid., VII, 271–9.
51 Richard Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianae (London, 1696), Part III, 16.
52 Anthony à Wood reports that foreigners had sometimes “out of pure devotion gone to
Breadstreet to see the house and chamber where he was born”; and also that “he had a
house in Breadstreet burnt, which was all the real Estate he had then left” (EL 48). The
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