"three score and ten," and mentions
two sons, Lewis and John, two daughters living, one of them married
to a Giles Archer, and grandchildren by these children, besides
nephews and nieces of the names of Papillon and Burlamachi. The son
"John" in this will proved it in October 1665, and cannot have been
the Calandrini of Milton's letter; but that Calandrini may have
been of the same connexion.]

[Footnote 2: Bayle, Art. _Francois Turretin_.]

Busy over his reply to the _Fides Publica_, Milton had stretched
his dispensation from routine duty in his Secretaryship not only
through November and December 1654 and January 1654-5, as was noted
in last section, but as far as to April 1655 in the present section.
Through these five months there is, so far as the records show, a
total blank, at all events, in his official letter-writing. In April
1655, however, as if his reply to the _Fides Publica_ were then
off his mind, and lying in the house in Petty France complete or
nearly complete in manuscript, we do come upon two more of his Latin
State-letters, as follows:--

(LII.) TO THE PRINCE OF TARENTE, _April_ 4, 1655[1]:--This
Prince, one of the chiefs of the French nobility, but connected
with Germany by marriage, was a Protestant by education, had been
mixed up with the wars of the Fronde, and was altogether a very
stirring man abroad. He had written to Cromwell invoking his
interest in behalf of foreign, and especially of French,
Protestantism. Cromwell expresses his satisfaction in having had
such an address from so eminent a representative of the Reformed
faith in a kingdom in which so many have lapsed from it, and
declares that nothing would please him more than "to be able to
promote the enlargement, the safety, or, what is most important,
the peace, of the Reformed Church." Meanwhile he exhorts the Prince
to be himself firm and faithful to his creed to the very last.--The
Prince of Tarente, it may be mentioned, had interested himself much
in the lawsuit between Morus and Salmasius. He had tried to act as
mediator and induce Morus to withdraw his action--a condescension
which Morus acknowledges, though he felt himself obliged, he says,
to go on.

[Footnote 1: No. 32 in Skinner Transcript (which gives the exact
date); also in Printed Collection and in Phillips.]

(LIII.) To ARCHDUKE LEOPOLD of AUSTRIA, GOVERNOR OF THE SPANISH
NETHERLANDS (_undated_):--Sir Charles Harbord, an En