Notes to Chapter 1also Indulgence not to be Refused, Comprehension Humbly Desired (London, 1672); Short
Reflections upon a Pamphlet Entituled Toleration not to be Abused (London, 1672); and
[Richard Baxter], Sacrilegious Desertion of the Holy Ministry Rebuked and Tolerated Preach-
ing of the Gospel Vindicated (London, 1672).
53 [Francis Fullwood], Toleration not to be Abused, Or, A Serious Question Soberly Debated
and Resolved upon Presbyterian Principles (London, 1672).
54 [Samuel Parker], A Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie, wherein the authority of the Civil Mag-
istrate over the Consciences of Subjects in Matters of External Religion is Asserted; the Mischiefs
and Inconveniences of Toleration are Represented, and all Pretenses Pleaded in Behalf of Liberty
of Conscience are fully answered (London, 1670 [1669]). He was answered, anonymously,
by John Owen in Truth and Innocence Vindicated: in a Survey of a Discourse Concerning
Ecclesiastical Polity (London, 1669), which argues the supreme claims of conscience.
Parker replied with A Defence and Continuation of the Ecclesiastical Politie (London, 1671).
55 Sig. c 6. This treatise was prefixed to Bishop Bramhall’s Vindication of Himself (London,
1672).
56 [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a late Book, Intituled,
A Preface Shewing What Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery (London, 1672,
September). The book was printed clandestinely without license, and distribution of
the first impression was prevented by L’Estrange; the king intervened in its behalf at the
behest of Anglesey. Marvell claims (174) to have seen Parker’s Preface in June or July,
1672.
57 Rehearsal Transpros’d, 303–4. This tract, addressed to Charles II, invites him by implica-
tion to see more clearly than his father did the dangers in the absolutist rhetoric and the
intolerance of the bishops: “Whether it were a War of Religion, or of Liberty, is not
worth the labour to enquire. Which-soever was at the top, the other was at the bottom;
but upon considering all, I think the Cause was too good to have been fought for....
after all the fatal consequences of that Rebellion, which can only serve as Sea-marks
unto wise Princes to avoid the Causes, shall this sort of Men still vindicate themselves as
the most zealous Assertors of the Rights of Princes?”
58 [Anthony Hodges?], S’Too him Bayes: Or Some Observations upon the Humour of Writing
Rehearsal’s Transpros’d (Oxford, 1673), 130. Another, A Common-place Book out of The
Rehearsal Transpros’d (London, 1673), 35–6, alludes to Milton’s Accidence, urging Marvell
to consult “blind M. who teaches School about Moor-fields” about his grammar.
59 [Samuel Parker], A Reproof to the Rehearsal Transprosed (London, 1673), 212, 191. The
treatise was advertised as published in the Term Catalogue licensed May 6, 1673 (I, 134).
60 The Transproser Rehears’d: Or the Fifth Act of Mr. Bayes’s Play (London, 1673), announced
in the Term Catalogue licensed on May 6 (I, 135). It has traditionally been ascribed to
Richard Leigh, but Nicholas von Maltzahn, “Samuel Butler’s Milton,” Studies in Philol-
ogy 92 (1955), 482–95, makes a strong case, from internal and external evidence, for
ascribing it to Samuel Butler, along with some witty pre-Restoration royalist satires.
See chapter 11, pp. 377–8 and note 92.
61 Transproser Rehears’d, 147, 43. He jeers that Milton “is more notoriously ridiculous” in
that he produces in the middle of verses the “jingling” rhyme he disparages at their ends
(pp. 41–2). See Sharon Achinstein, “Milton’s Spectre in the Restoration: Marvell,
Dryden, and Literary Enthusiasm,” Huntington Library Quarterly 59 (1997), 1–29.
62 Transproser Rehears’d, 41–2.
Notes to Chapter 14