ERMON, _THE FEAR OF GOD AND THE KING_: GRIFFITH IMPRISONED FOR
HIS SERMON, BUT FORWARD REPUBLICANS CHECKED OR PUNISHED AT THE SAME
TIME: NEEDHAM DISCHARGED FROM HIS EDITORSHIP AND MILTON FROM HIS
SECRETARYSHIP: RESOLUTENESS OF MILTON IN HIS REPUBLICANISM: HIS
_BRIEF NOTES ON DR. GRIFFITH'S SERMON_: SECOND EDITION OF HIS
_READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMONWEALTH_:
REMARKABLE ADDITIONS AND ENLARGEMENTS IN THIS EDITION: SPECIMENS OF
THESE: MILTON AND LAMBERT THE LAST REPUBLICANS IN THE FIELD: ROGER
L'ESTRANGE'S PAMPHLET AGAINST MILTON, CALLED _NO BLIND GUIDES_:
LARGER ATTACK ON MILTON BY G.S., CALLED _HE DIGNITY OF KINGSHIP
ASSERTED_: QUOTATIONS FROM THAT BOOK: MEETING OF THE CONVENTION
PARLIAMENT, APRIL 25, 1660: DELIVERY BY GREENVILLE OF THE SIX ROYAL
LETTERS FROM BREDA, APRIL 28--MAY 1, AND VOTES OF BOTH HOUSES FOR THE
RECALL OF CHARLES; INCIDENTS OF THE FOLLOWING WEEK: MAD IMPATIENCE
OVER THE THREE KINGDOMS FOR THE KING'S RETURN: HE AND HIS COURT AT
THE HAGUE, PREPARING FOR THE VOYAGE HOME: PANIC AMONG THE SURVIVING
REGICIDES AND OTHER PROMINENT REPUBLICANS: FLIGHT OF NEEDHAM TO
HOLLAND AND ABSCONDING OF MILTON FROM HIS HOUSE IN PETTY FRANCE: LAST
SIGHT OF MILTON IN THAT HOUSE.

The Parliament of the Secluded Members and Residuary Rumpers had been
sitting for a few days, had confirmed Monk in the Dictatorship by
formally appointing him Captain-General and Commander-in-chief (Feb.
21), and had also (Feb. 22) intimated their resolution to devolve all
really constitutional questions on a new "full and free Parliament,"
when Milton did send forth the pamphlet he had written. It was a
small quarto of eighteen pages with this title-page: "_The Readie
and Easie Way to Establish a Free Commonwealth, and the Excellence
therof compar'd with the inconveniences and dangers of readmitting
kingship in this nation. The author J.M., London, Printed by T.N.,
and are to be sold by Livewell Chapman at the Crown in Popes-Head
Alley_. 1660." Copies seem to have been procurable before the end
of February 1659-60, but Thomason's copy bears date "March 3."[1]
That was the day of the order of Parliament for the release of the
last remaining Scottish captives of Worcester Battle.

[Footnote 1: In Wood's Fasti (I. 485) the pamphlet is mentioned as
"published in Feb." The publication, we learn from subsequent words
of Milton himself, was very hurried, and copies got about without his
press-corrections. I find no entry of the pamphl