Category: Biographies
CHAP. I. SECTION I. Oliver and his First Parliament: Sept. 3, 1654-Jan. 22, 1654-5.--Meeting of the First Parliament of the Protectorate: Its Composition: Anti-Oliverians numerous in it: Their Four Days' Debate in challenge of Cromwell's Powers: Debate stopped by Cromwell: His...
For more than reasons of mere mechanical symmetry, it will be well to divide this Chapter of Milton's Biography into Sections corresponding with those of Oliver's Continued Prot...
5. CHAPTER I.Oliver's First Protectorate extended over three years and six months in all, or from December 16, 1653 to June 26, 1657. The first nine months of it, as far as to September 1654...
18. CHAPTER II.FIRST EDITION OF MILTON'S _READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMONWEALTH_: ACCOUNT OF THE PAMPHLET, WITH EXTRACTS: VEHEMENT REPUBLICANISM OF THE PAMPHLET, WITH ITS PROPHET...
8. CHAPTER I.REGAL FORMS AND CEREMONIAL OF THE SECOND PROTECTORATE: THE PROTECTOR'S FAMILY: THE PRIVY COUNCIL: RETIREMENT OF LAMBERT: DEATH OF ADMIRAL BLAKE: THE FRENCH ALLIANCE AND SUCCESSE...
9. CHAPTER II.MILTON STILL IN OFFICE: LETTER TO MR. HENRY DE BRASS, WITH MILTON'S OPINION OF SALLUST: LETTERS TO YOUNG RANELAGH AND HENRY OLDENBURG AT SAUMUR: MORUS IN NEW CIRCUMSTANCES: ELEV...
17. CHAPTER II._FIRST STAGE OF THE ANARCHY, OR THE RESTORED RUMP_ (MAY--OCT. 1659):--FEELINGS AND POSITION OF MILTON IN THE NEW STATE OF THINGS: HIS SATISFACTION ON THE WHOLE, AND THE REASONS...
12. CHAPTER I.NUMBER OF THE RESTORED RUMPERS AND LIST OF THEM: COUNCIL OP STATE OF THE RESTORED RUMP: ANOMALOUS CHARACTER AND POSITION OP THE NEW GOVERNMENT: MOMENTARY CHANCE OF A CIVIL WAR B...
11. CHAPTER I.PROCLAMATION OF RICHARD: HEARTY RESPONSE FROM THE COUNTRY AND FROM FOREIGN POWERS: FUNERAL OF THE LATE PROTECTOR: RESOLUTION FOR A NEW PARLIAMENT.--DIFFICULTIES IN PROSPECT: LIS...
16. CHAPTER II.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...
15. CHAPTER I.THE RESTORED LONG PARLIAMENT: NEW COUNCIL OF STATE: ACTIVE MEN OF THE PARLIAMENT: PRYNNE, ARTHUR ANNESLEY, AND WILLIAM MORRICE: MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENT: RELE...
13. CHAPTER I.THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE GOVERNMENT: ITS _COMMITTEE OF SAFETY_: BEHAVIOUR OF LUDLOW AND OTHER LEADING REPUBLICANS: DEATH OF BRADSHAW.--ARMY-ARRANGEMENTS OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT: FLEE...
14. CHAPTER I.THE RUMP AFTER ITS SECOND RESTORATION: NEW COUNCIL OF STATE: PENALTIES ON VANE, LAMBERT, DESBOROUGH, AND THE OTHER CHIEFS OF THE WALLINGFORD-HOUSE INTERREGNUM: CASE OF LUDLOW: N...
3. BOOK III.CHAP. I. FIRST SECTION. The Protectorate of Richard Cromwell: Sept. 3, 1858--May 25, 1659.--Proclamation of Richard: Hearty Response from the Country and from Foreign Powers: Fu...
1. BOOK I.CHAP. I. SECTION I. Oliver and his First Parliament: Sept. 3, 1654-Jan. 22, 1654-5.--Meeting of the First Parliament of the Protectorate: Its Composition: Anti-Oliverians numero...
2. BOOK II.CHAP. I. Oliver's Second Protectorate: June 26, 1657-Sept. 3, 1658.--Regal Forms and Ceremonial of the Second Protectorate: The Protector's Family: The Privy Council: Retirement...
10. BOOK III.4. BOOK I.7. BOOK II.