istence till the moment when they
should be produced in the Parliament.[1]

[Footnote 1: Phillips, 699-701; Skinner, 283-284 and 290-294;
Clarendon, 902.]

CHAPTER II.

First Section.

MILTON'S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH RICHARD'S PROTECTORATE: SEPT.
1658-MAY 1659.

MILTON AND MARVELL STILL IN THE LATIN SECRETARYSHIP: MILTON'S FIRST
FIVE STATE-LETTERS FOR RICHARD (NOS. CXXXIII.-CXXXVII.): NEW EDITION
OF MILTON'S _DEFENSIO PRIMA_: REMARKABLE POSTSRCIPT TO THAT
EDITION: SIX MORE STATE-LETTERS FOR RICHARD (NOS. CXXXVIII.-CXLIII.):
MILTON'S RELATIONS TO THE CONFLICT OF PARTIES ROUND RICHARD AND IN
RICHARD'S PARLIAMENT: HIS PROBABLE CAREER BUT FOR HIS BLINDNESS: HIS
CONTINUED CROMWELLIANISM IN POLITICS, BUT WITH STRONGER PRIVATE
RESERVES, ESPECIALLY ON THE QUESTION OF AN ESTABLISHED CHURCH: HIS
REPUTATION THAT OF A MAN OF THE COURT-PARTY AMONG THE
PROTECTORATISTS: HIS _TREATISE OF CIVIL POWER IN ECCLESIASTICAL
CAUSES_: ACCOUNT OF THE TREATISE, WITH EXTRACTS: THE TREATISE MORE
THAN A PLEA FOR RELIGIOUS TOLERATION: CHURCH-DISESTABLISHMENT THE
FUNDAMENTAL IDEA: THE TREATISE ADDRESSED TO RICHARD'S PARLIAMENT, AND
CHIEFLY TO VANE AND THE REPUBLICANS THERE: NO EFFECT FROM IT:
MILTON'S FOUR LAST STATE-LETTERS FOR RICHARD (NOS. CXLIV.-CXLVII.):
HIS PRIVATE EPISTLE TO JEAN LABADIE, WITH ACCOUNT OF THAT PERSON:
MILTON IN THE MONTH BETWEEN RICHARD'S DISSOLUTION OF HIS PARLIAMENT
AND HIS FORMAL ABDICATION: HIS TWO STATE-LETTERS FOR THE RESTORED
RUMP (NOS. CXLVIII.-CXLIX.).

Milton and Marvell continued together In the Latin Secretaryship
through the Protectorate of Richard Cromwell, The following were the
first Letters of Milton for Richard:--

(CXXXIII.) To Louis XIV. OF FRANCE, _Sept._ 5, 1658:--"Most
serene and most potent King, Friend and Confederate: As my most
serene Father, of glorious memory, Oliver, Protector of the
Commonwealth of England, such being the will of Almighty God, has
been, removed by death on the 3rd of September, I, his lawfully
declared successor in this Government, though in the depth of
sadness and grief, cannot but on the very first opportunity inform
your Majesty by letter of so important a fact, assured that, as you
have been a most cordial friend to my Father and this Commonwealth,
the sudden intelligence will be no matter of joy to you either. It
is my business now to request your Majesty to think of me as one
who has nothing more resolvedly at heart than to