THE

PRO SE WORKS
Ꮲ Ꮪ

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.

1

A DEFENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND: in Answer to

Salmasius's Defence of the King

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”

214

EIKONOKLASTES: in Answer to a Book entitled “Eikon

Basilike, The Portraiture of His Sacred Majesty in his

Solitudes and Sufferings”

301

PREFACE

. 307

CHAP. I.—Upon the King's calling this last Parliament . 317

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

331

CHAP. III.—Upon his going to the House of Commons . 337

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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. VIII._Upon his Repulse at Hull, and the Fate of the

Hothams

370

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CAAP. IX.–Upon the listing and raising Armies, &c.

. 378

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

389

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

397

CHAP. XII.-Upon the Rebellion in Ireland

407

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

coming

417

CHAP. XIV.–Upon the Covenant

422

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

425

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

Book

430

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

ment

434

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

. 440

CHAP. XIX.–Upon the Various Events of the War.

445

CHAP. XX.–Upon the Reformation of the Times

450

Char. XXI.—Upon his Letters taken and divulged .

452

CHAP. XXII.-Upon his going to the Scots

456

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

English

Char. 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 .

. 472

CHAP. XXVIII.-Entitled, Meditations upon Death

483