Chap.  II.  Milton’s Life and Secretaryship through the First Protectorate continued:  September 1654-June 1657.—­Section I.:  From September 1654 to January 1654-5, or Through Oliver’s First Parliament.—­Ulac’s Hague Edition of Milton’s Defensio Secunda, with the Fides Publica of Morus annexed:  Preface by Dr. Crantzius to the Reprint:  Ulac’s own Preface of Self-Defence:  Account of Morus’s Fides Publica, with Extracts:  His Citation of Testimonies to his Character:  Testimony of Diodati of Geneva:  Abrupt Ending of the Book at this Point, with Ulac’s Explanation of the Cause.—­Particulars of the Arrest and Imprisonment of Milton’s Friend Overton.—­Three more Latin State-Letters by Milton for Oliver (Nos.  XLIX.-LI.):  No State-Letters by Milton for the next Three Months:  Milton then busy on a Reply to the Fides Publica of Morus.

CHAP.  II.  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 Genovese 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