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.

B

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY

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"

. 214

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

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

Hothams

. 370

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

. 378

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

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

CHAP. XII.-Upon the Rebellion in Ireland

PAGE.

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

coming

CHAP. XIV. Upon the Covenant

. 417

. 422

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

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

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

434

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

English

. 457

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

Chaplains

CHAP. XXV. Upon his Penitential Meditations and Vows at

Holmby

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

Holmby

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

CHAP. XXVIII.-Entitled, Meditations upon Death

. 472

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