Battle of Newbury: Presbyterian hostility to Cromwell, and
intrigues for upsetting him: The War thus brought to a
crisis on the precise question whether Independency and
Toleration or Presbyterianism and No Toleration should
have the conduct of it-Ending of the crisis by the Or-
dinance for a New Modelling of the Army under Sir Thomas
Fairfax as Commander-in-Chief, Feb. 1644-5, and The
Self-Denying Ordinance, excluding all members of either
House of Parliament from military or civil office while the
War lasted, April 1645-Parliamentary Vengeances: Execu-
tion of Laud
II. Milton among the Sectaries and in "a World of Disesteem":
Gossip about him in London: Story of Mrs. Attaway, the
woman - preacher of Coleman Street, and her adoption of
-Account of the Naturalised London
Milton's Doctrine.
philanthropist, Samuel Hartlib: His correspondence with
John Durie, and sympathy with Durie's Scheme for a Union
of all the Protestant Churches: His correspondence with
the Moravian Educational Reformer, John Amos Comenius:
Sketch of the Life of Comenius, with Account of his Educa-
tional Schemes and Publications as far as to 1640: Par-
ticulars of Hartlib's Life and of his connexion with Com-
enius and other celebrities in 1641 and 1642: Project by
the Long Parliament for the establishment of a University
of London; Visit of Comenius to London in the interest of
that project: Interruption of the project by the Civil War,
and migration of Comenius to Sweden-Regret of Hartlib
for the departure of Comenius: His continued activity on
his own account in English public affairs through 1643 and
1644. Milton one of Hartlib's London acquaintances, and
Milton's Tract on Education addressed to Hartlib-Account
of the Tract, with quotations: The Tract not a Treatise on
Education generally, but a Scheme of an Academy for the
Education of Gentlemen's Sons: Summary of the Details
and Peculiarities of the Scheme: Dr. Johnson's Criticism
-Milton
of it: Similarity of the Scheme with Milton's Method with
his own Pupils as described by Edward Phillips.-
still occupied with his Divorce Speculation: Publication,
July 1644, of his Second Divorce Tract, entitled The Judg-
ment of Martin Bucer concerning Divorce: Account of the
Tract: The Dedication now to the Parliament only: Ex-
tract from the Dedication-Mr. Herbert Palmer's Attack
on Milton in a sermon before the two Houses of Parliament,
Aug. 13, 1644: Simultaneous complaint against Milton by the
Stationers' Company for his evasion of the Printing Ordin-
-Account of the Printing Ordinance
ance of Parliament.-
of the Long Parliament, and of the System of Press Censor-
ship established by it-Publication, Nov. 1644, of Milton's
Areopagitica, or Speech to Parliament for the Liberty of Un-
licensed Printing: Account of the Pamphlet, with Extracts,
and definition of its exact purport-Second Complaint
against Milton to the Parliament by the Stationers' Company:
The Complaint minuted, but Milton let alone-Farther
Attacks on Milton for his Divorce Doctrine by Prynne, Mr.
Joseph Caryl, Dr. Featley, and an anonymous Pamphleteer.
-Publication, March 1644-5, of Milton's third Divorce
Tract, entitled Tetrachordon, and his fourth and last Divorce
Tract, called Colasterion: Account of these Tracts, with