THE LIFE

OF

JOHN MILTON,

AND

HISTORY OF HIS TIME.

JOHN MILTON:

NARRATED IN CONNEXION WITH

THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY

HISTORY OF HIS TIME.

BY

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

All rights reserved

First Edition 1873 Second Edition 1896

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.

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