THE LIFE

OF

JOHN MILTON,

AND

HISTORY OF HIS TIME.

DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D., LITT.D.,

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH LITERATURE

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

AND HISTORIOGRAPHER ROYAL FOR SCOTLAND

VOL. III.

1643-1649.

NEW EDITION

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

AND NEW YORK

1896

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PREFATORY NOTE.

A FEW small corrections excepted, the text of the present
Volume is an exact reprint of that of the original edition,
published in 1873. The prefixed Table of Contents,
however, has been somewhat enlarged, to bring it into
conformity with the Tables of Contents in the current
editions of other volumes of the Work.

EDINBURGH: December 1895.