[139] Inchiquin and Broghill had both declared for the Parliament.

[140] Bringing, it will be remembered, Lady Pegg, Lady Barrymore, and young Lord Barrymore home with him. Young Barrymore must have gone straight to Milton in the Barbican.

[141] Usher.

[142] Augustine.

[143] In due time Lord Broghill was to send his own sons to Marcombes in Geneva. The old governour was much gratified at having a batch of the second generation of the Boyle family put under his charge.

[144] David Masson’s Milton, iii. 662.

[145] Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and former tutor to Lady Pegg’s brothers.

[146] Letter to John Durie about a Union of the Churches, Birch’s Ed. Works.

[147] To Lady Ranelagh: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.

[148] Robert Boyle to Hartlib, May 1647: Birch’s Ed. Works, vol. vi.