BOOK II.
MARCH 1644-MARCH 1645.
HISTORY:—THE YEAR OF MARSTON MOOR: CIVIL WAR, LONG PARLIAMENT, AND WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY CONTINUED—STRUGGLE OF INDEPENDENCY WITH PRESBYTERIANISM: TOLERATION CONTROVERSY: ENGLISH SECTS AND SECTARIES— PRESBYTERIAN SETTLEMENT VOTED—NEW MODEL OF THE ARMY.
BIOGRAPHY:—MILTON AMONG THE SECTARIES: HIS SECOND DIVORCE PAMPHLET, TRACT ON EDUCATION, AREOPAGITICA, TETRACHORDON, AND COLISTERION.
CHAP.
I. Inactivity of the Scottish Auxiliaries—Spread of Independency and
Multiplication of Sects—Visitation of the University of Cambridge—
Battle of Marston Moor—Fortnight's Vacation of the Westminster Assembly
(July 23-August 7, 1644),—Principle of Toleration and State of the
Toleration Controversy: Synopsis of English Sects and Sectaries in 1644.-
-Resumption of Assembly's Proceedings: Denunciation of Picked Sectaries
and Heretics—Cromwell's Interference for Independency: Accommodation
Order of Parliament—Presbyterian Settlement voted—Essex beaten and the
War flagging: Self-denying Ordinance and New Model of the Army—
Parliamentary Vengeances: Death of Laud
II. Milton among the Sectaries, and in a "World of Disesteem": Story of Mrs. Attaway—Samuel Hantlib, John Durie, and John Amos Comenius: Schemes of a Reformed Education, and Project of a London University—Milton's Tract on Education, and Method with his Pupils—His Second Divorce Tract, or Compilation from Bucer—Mr. Herbert Palmer's Attack on Milton from the Pulpit—Milton and the Stationers' Company: Their Accusation of him in a Petition to the Commons—His Areopagitica, or Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing—Anger of the Stationers, and their Complaint against Milton to the Lords: Consequence of the Complaint—The Divorce Question continued: Publication of Mr. Herbert Palmer's Sermon, and farther Attacks on Milton by Prynne, Dr. Featley, and an Anonymous Pamphleteer—Tetrachordon and Colasterion: Their Replies to the Assailants.