APRIL 1645-AUGUST 1646.
HISTORY:—SIXTEEN MONTHS OF THE NEW MODEL, AND OF THE LONG PARLIAMENT AND WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY CONTINUED.—BATTLE OF NASEBY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: EPISODE OF MONTROSE IN SCOTLAND: FLIGHT OF THE KING TO THE SCOTS AND CONCLUSION OF THE CIVIL WAR.—PROGRESS OF THE TOLERATION CONTROVERSY AND OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE PRESBYTERIANS AND THE INDEPENDENTS.—LONDON AND LANCASHIRE PRESBYTERIANIZED.
BIOGRAPHY:—RETURN OF MILTON'S WIFE: HIS REMOVAL FROM ALDERSGATE STREET TO BARBICAN: FIRST EDITION OF HIS POEMS: THREE MORE SONNETS: CONTINUED PRESBYTERIAN ATTACKS ON MILTON: HIS RETALIATION: TROUBLES OF THE POWELL FAMILY.
CHAP.
I. Composition of the New Model, and View of the Work lying before it—
First Actions of the New Model—Cromwell retained in Command: Battle of
Naseby: Other Successes of the New Model—Poor Performance of the
Scottish Auxiliary Army—Episode of Montrose in Scotland—Fag-end of the
War in England, and Flight of the King to the Scots—Fallen and Risen
Stars.
II. Work in Parliament and the Westminster Assembly during the Sixteen Months of the New Model—The two continued Church Controversies— Independency and Sectarianism in the New Model: Toleration Controversy continued: Cromwell's part in it: Lilburne and other Pamphleteers: Sion College and the Corporation of London: Success of the Presbyterians in Parliament—Presbyterian Frame of Church Government completed: Details of the Arrangement—The Recruiting of the Commons: Eminent Recruiters— Effects of the Recruiting: Alliance of Independency and Erastianism: Check given to the Presbyterians: Westminster Assembly rebuked and curbed—Negotiations round the King at Newcastle—Threatened Rupture between the Scots and the English: Argyle's Visit to London: The Nineteen Propositions—Parliament and the Assembly reconciled: Presbyterianizing of London and Lancashire: Death of Alexander Henderson.
III. Effects of Milton's Areopagitica—His Intention of another
Marriage: His Wife's Return and Reconciliation with him—Removal from
Aldersgate Street to Barbican—First Edition of Milton's Collected Poems:
Humphrey Moseley the Bookseller—Two Divorce Sonnets and Sonnet to Henry
Lawes—Continued Presbyterian Attacks on Milton: His Anti-Presbyterian
Sonnet of Reply—Surrender of Oxford: Condition of the Powell Family—The
Powells in London: More Family Perplexities: Birth of Milton's first
Child.