Notes to Chapter 1lease of the Red Rose had been transferred (see chapter 11, note 65), but Milton’s
tenure did not expire until 1674.
53 The king’s affairs with Lady Castlemaine and others were common knowledge, and
also his courtship of the reluctant Frances Stewart; the Duke of York was linked
with Sir John Denham’s wife, and the Duchess of York with Henry Sidney and
others.
54 Londons Sad Calamity by Fire; Being a Warning-piece to England (London, 1666), 2.
55 Letter dated September, 1666, cited in James P. Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum; or, An
Ancient History and Modern Description of London, vol. 4 (London, 1807), 80. Among the
tracts that interpreted the plague, fire, and Dutch war as a divine testimony against the
Clarendon Code was A Few Sober Queries (London, 1668), 4.
56 Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders (London, 1667), dated November 10, 1666 in
Dryden’s prefatory letter to Sir Robert Howard.
57 See Stephen N. Zwicker, Lines of Authority (Ithaca, NY, and London, 1993), 90–107.
58 “An account of the ensuing Poem, in a Letter to the Honorable, Sir Robert Howard,”
Annus Mirabilis, sig. A 5v.
59 Ibid., sigs A 5v–A 6v.
60 See von Maltzahn, “The First Reception of Paradise Lost (1667),” Review of English
Studies 47 (1996), 488–9; and Masson, VI, 564–6.
61 Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianae, Part III, 16.
62 Pepys, Diary, VII, 309.
63 Matthew died in 1654 and his wife Mary took over the shop; in 1662 Samuel finished
his apprenticeship and his name began to appear on imprints, either with his mother or
alone. Samuel’s name appears only on eleven imprints from 1662 to 1680, including
Milton’s Paradise Lost and Accidence Commenc’t Grammar. See D. M. McKenzie, “Milton’s
Printers,” MQ 14 (1980), 87–91; and Peter Lindenbaum, “The Poet in the Market-
place,” in Of Poetry and Politics, ed. Paul Stanwood (Binghamton, NY, 1995), 247–62.
64 See chapter 7, pp. 226–8.
65 Peter Lindenbaum, “John Milton and the Republican Mode of Literary Production,”
in The Yearbook of Literary Studies: Politics, Patronage, and Literature in England, ed. Andrew
Gurr, et al., 21 (1991), 121–36.
66 Peter Lindenbaum, “The Poet in the Marketplace,” 258, provides some comparisons:
Dryden, £20 for Troilus and Cressida; Baxter, £10 after publication of Saints Everlasting
Rest in 1649; George Herbert’s widow, apparently nothing for The Temple; William
Prynne, only presentation copies for Histriomastix (1633).
67 The contract is BL Add Ms 18,861; Cf. LR IV, 429–31.
68 See chapter 12, p. 406.
69 [Thomas Tomkyns], The Inconveniences of Toleration, or, An Answer to a Late Book, Intituled,
A Proposition Made to the King and Parliament, for the Safety and Happiness of the King and
Kingdom (London, 1667). Tomkyns is answering [David Jenkins], A Proposition for the
Safety and Happiness of the King and Kingdom... By way of Accommodation and Indulgence
in Matters of Religion (London, 1667), which argued that the king should keep the moral
and political force of liberty of conscience on his side, and that in the face of calamities
and wars sober Protestants should be tolerated as a bulwark against the wild sectaries and
Jesuits. It was dated June 18 and available in early August, 1667. See also [Thomas
Tomkyns], The Rebel’s Plea Examined: or Mr. Baxter’s Judgment concerning the late War
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