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 for such:  Edward Phillips’s London Edition of the Poems of Drummond of Hawthornden:  Milton’s Cognisance of the same.—­Henry Oldenburg and Mr. Richard Jones at Oxford:  Letters of Milton to Jones and Oldenburg.—­Thirteen more State-Letters of the Milton Series (Nos.  LXXVIII.-XC.):  Importance of some of them.

CHAP.  II.  SECTION III.:  From September 1656 to June 1657, or Through the First Session of Oliver’s Second Parliament.—­Another Letter from Milton to Mr. Richard Jones:  Departure of Lady Ranelagh for Ireland:  Letter from Milton to Peter Heimbach:  Milton’s Second Marriage:  His Second Wife, Katharine Woodcock:  Letter to Emeric Bigot:  Milton’s Library and the Byzantine Historians:  M. Stoupe:  Ten more State-Letters by Milton for the Protector (Nos.  XCI.-C.):  Morland, Meadows, Durie, Lockhart, and other Diplomatists of the Protector, back in London:  More Embassies and Dispatches over Land and Sea:  Milton Standing and Waiting:  His Thoughts about the Protectorate generally.

BOOK II.

JUNE 1657-SEPTEMBER 1658

HISTORY:—­OLIVER’S SECOND PROTECTORATE.

BIOGRAPHY:—­MILTON’S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH THE SECOND
PROTECTORATE.

CHAP. 
I. Oliver’s Second Protectorate:  June 26, 1657-Sept. 3, 1658.—­Regal
Forms and Ceremonial of the Second Protectorate:  The Protector’s
Family:  The Privy Council:  Retirement of Lambert:  Death of Admiral
Blake:  The French Alliance and Successes in Flanders:  Siege and
Capture of Mardike:  Other Foreign Relations of the Protectorate: 
Special Envoys to Denmark, Sweden, and the United Provinces:  Aims of
Cromwell’s Diplomacy in Northern and Eastern Europe:  Progress of his
English Church-Establishment:  Controversy between John Goodwill and
Marchamont Needham:  The Protector and the Quakers:  Death of John
Lilburne:  Death of Sexby:  Marriage of the Duke of Buckingham to Mary
Fairfax:  Marriages of Cromwell’s Two Youngest Daughters:  Preparations
for another Session of the Parliament:  Writs for the Other House: 
List of Cromwell’s Peers.—­Reassembling of the Parliament.  Jan. 20,
1667-8:  Cromwell’s Opening Speech, with the Supplement by Fiennes: