SECTION II:  FROM JANUARY 1654-5 TO SEPTEMBER 1656, OR THROUGH THE PERIOD OF ARBITRARINESS.

LETTER TO MILTON FROM LEO DE AITZEMA:  MILTON’S REPLY:  LETTER TO
EZEKIEL SPANHEIM AT GENEVA:  MILTON’S GENEVESE RECOLLECTIONS AND
ACQUAINTANCES:  TWO MORE OF MILTON’S LATIN STATE-LETTERS (NOS.  LII.,
LIII.):  SMALL AMOUNT OF MILTON’S DESPATCH-WRITING FOR CROMWELL
HITHERTO.—­REDUCTION OF OFFICIAL SALARIES, AND PROPOSAL TO REDUCE
MILTON’S TO L150 A YEAR:  ACTUAL COMMUTATION OF HIS L288 A YEAR AT
PLEASURE INTO L200 FOR LIFE:  ORDERS OF THE PROTECTOR AND COUNCIL
RELATING TO THE PIEDMONTESE MASSACRE, MAY 1655:  SUDDEN DEMAND ON
MILTON’S PEN IN THAT BUSINESS:  HIS LETTER OF REMONSTRANCE FROM THE
PROTECTOR TO THE DUKE OF SAVOY, WITH TEN OTHER LETTERS TO FOREIGN
STATES AND PRINCES ON THE SAME SUBJECT (NOS.  LIV.—­LXIV.):  HIS SONNET
ON THE SUBJECT.—­PUBLICATION OF THE SUPPLEMENTUM TO MORE’S FIDES
PUBLICA:  ACCOUNT OF THE SUPPLEMENTUM, WITH EXTRACTS:  MILTON’S
ANSWER TO THE FIDES PUBLICA AND THE SUPPLEMENTUM TOGETHER IN
HIS PRO SE DEFENSIO, AUG. 1655:  ACCOUNT OF THAT BOOK, WITH
SPECIMENS:  MILTON’S DISBELIEF IN MORUS’S DENIALS OF THE AUTHORSHIP OF
THE REGII SANGUINIS CLAMOR:  HIS REASONS, AND HIS REASSERTIONS
OF THE CHARGE IN A MODIFIED FORM:  HIS NOTICES OF DR. CRANTZIUS AND
ULAC:  HIS RENEWED ONSLAUGHTS ON MORUS:  HIS REPETITION OF THE BONTIA
ACCUSATION AND OTHERS:  HIS EXAMINATION OF MORUS’S PRINTED
TESTIMONIALS:  FEROCITY OF THE BOOK TO THE LAST:  ITS EFFECTS ON
MORUS.—­QUESTION OF THE REAL AUTHORSHIP OF THE REGII SANGUINIS
CLAMOR AND OF THE AMOUNT OF MORUS’S CONCERN IN IT:  THE DU MOULIN
FAMILY:  DR. PETER DU MOULIN THE YOUNGER THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE
REGII SANGUINIS CLAMOR, BUT MORUS THE ACTIVE EDITOR AND THE
WRITER OF THE DEDICATORY EPISTLE:  DU MOULIN’S OWN ACCOUNT OF THE
WHOLE AFFAIR:  HIS CLOSE CONTACT WITH MILTON ALL THE WHILE, AND DREAD
OF BEING FOUND OUT.—­CALM IN MILTON’S LIFE AFTER THE CESSATION OF THE
MORUS-SALMASIUS CONTROVERSY:  HOME-LIFE IN PETTY FRANCE:  DABBLINGS OF
THE TWO NEPHEWS IN LITERATURE:  JOHN PHILLIPS’S SATYR AGAINST
HYPOCRITES:  FREQUENT VISITORS AT PETTY FRANCE:  MARVELL, NEEDHAM,
CYRIACK SKINNER, &C.:  THE VISCOUNTESS RANELAGH, MR. RICHARD JONES,
AND THE BOYLE CONNEXION:  DR. PETER DU MOULIN IN THAT CONNEXION: 
MILTON’S PRIVATE SONNET ON HIS BLINDNESS.  HIS TWO SONNETS TO CYRIACK
SKINNER, AND HIS SONNET TO YOUNG LAWRENCE:  EXPLANATION OF THESE FOUR
SONNETS.—­SCRIPTUM DOMINI PROTECTORIS CONTRA HISPANOS: 
THIRTEEN MORE LATIN STATE-LETTERS OF MILTON FOR THE PROTECTOR (NOS. 
LXV.—­LXXVII.), WITH SPECIAL ACCOUNT OF COUNT BUNDT AND THE SWEDISH
EMBASSY IN LONDON:  COUNT BUNDT AND MR. MILTON.—­INCREASE OF LIGHT
LITERATURE IN LONDON:  EROTIC PUBLICATIONS:  JOHN PHILLIPS IN TROUBLE