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THE

PROSE WORKS

OF

JOHN MILTON.

VOLUME I.

CONTAINING

A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

THE SECOND DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.

EIKONOKLASTES.

WITH

A PREFACE, PRELIMINARY REMARKS, AND NOTES,

BY J. A. ST. JOHN.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1848.

26060.

LONDON.

JOSEPH RICKERBY PRINTER,

SHERBOURN LANE.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

Editor's Preface

PAGE.

i

A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND: in Answer to

Salmasius's Defence of the King
1

THE SECOND DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND: against

an anonymous Libel, entitled "The Royal Blood crying to

Heaven for Vengeance on the English Parricides"

EIKONOKLASTES: in Answer to a Book entitled "Eikon

Basilikè, The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in his

Solitudes and Sufferings"

PREFACE

CHAP. I.-Upon the King's calling this last Parliament

CHAP. II.-Upon the Earl of Strafford's Death

214

. 301

CHAP. III.—Upon his going to the House of Commons

. 337

CHAP. IV. Upon the Insolency of the Tumults

341

CHAP. V.-Upon the Bill for Triennial Parliaments, and for set-

tling this, &c.

351

CHAP. VI.-Upon his Retirement from Westminster.

357

CHAP. VII.-Upon the Queen's Departure

. 368

CHAP. VIII.—Upon his Repulse at Hull, and the Fate of the

CHAP. IX. Upon the listing and raising Armies, &c.

CHAP. X.-Upon their seizing the Magazines, Forts, &c.

CHAP. XI.-Upon the Nineteen Propositions, &c.

. 370

378

389

397

CHAP. XII.-Upon the Rebellion in Ireland

CHAP. XIII.—Upon the calling in of the Scots, and their

coming

CHAP. XIV. Upon the Covenant

CHAP. XV.-Upon the many Jealousies, &c.

PAGE.

. 417

422

425

CHAP. XVI.—Upon the Ordinance against the Common-Prayer

Book

CHAP. XVII. Of the Differences in point of Church-Govern-

ment

CHAP. XVIII.-Upon the Uxbridge Treaty, &c.

450

. 452

456

CHAP. XXIII.-Upon the Scots delivering the King to the

English

. 457

CHAP. XIX.-Upon the Various Events of the War.
CHAP. XX.-Upon the Reformation of the Times
CHAP. XXI.-Upon his Letters taken and divulged
CHAP. XXII.-Upon his going to the Scots

CHAP. XXIV. Upon the Denying him the Attendance of his

Chaplains

458

CHAP. XXV. Upon his Penitential Meditations and Vows at

Holmby

462

CHAP. XXVI.-Upon the Army's Surprisal of the King at

Holmby

466

CHAP. XXVII.-Entitled, To the Prince of Wales.

CHAP. XXVIII.-Entitled, Meditations upon Death

483