Milton to Mylius, preserved “in a collection of autographs belonging to the Cardinal Bishop-Prince von Schwartzenberg.”  A copy was sent by Dr. Goll of Prague to Professor Alfred Stern of Bern, author of Milton und Seine Zeit; and Professor Stern communicated it to the Academy, where it appeared Oct. 13, 1877.  It may be here translated:—­“Yesterday, my most respected Hermann, after you had gone, there came to me a mandate of the Council, ordering me to compare the Latin copy [of the Safeguard] with the English, and to take care that they agreed with each other, and then to send both to Lord Whitlocke and Mr. Neville for revision; which I did, and at the same time wrote fully to Lord Whitlocke on the subject of the insertion you wanted made,—­namely that there should be a clause in favour also of the successors and descendents of his Lordship the Count, and this in the formula which you yourself suggested:  I added moreover the reasons you assigned why, unless that were done, the business would seem absolutely null.  What happened in the Council in consequence I do not know for certain, for I was kept at home by yesterday’s rain and was not present.  If you write to the President of the Council [Concilii only in the copy, but one guesses that the word for ‘President’ has to be inserted], or, better still, if you send one of your people to Mr. Frost, you may yourself, I believe, hear from them; or, at all events, you shall know in the evening from me,—­your most devoted JOHN MILTON.  Feb. 13, 1651 [i.e. 1651-2].”  The letter accords in every particular with the extract we have given from the minutes of the Council of State of Feb. 11, and enables us to see how the Safeguard for the Count of Oldenburg did emerge, in the desired form at last, in Parliament on Feb. 17.  Professor Stern, in his communication to the Academy, adds that the Safeguard is “printed by J.J.  Winkelmann in his Oldenburgische Friedens und der benachbarten Oerter Kriegshandlungen, p. 390, with the annotation, ’Hoc diploma ex Anglico originali in Latinum verbatim versum est. JOANNES MILTONIUS. Westmonasterii, 17 Febr., anno 1651-2” (’This diploma is turned verbatim into Latin from the English original.  JOHN MILTON.  Westminster, 17 Febr., in the year 1651-2’), I assume, but am not certain, that it is the same as that mentioned as given in Thurloe, i, 385-6.

Vol.  IV. p. 560:—­For the Earl of Airly, mentioned as one of the delinquent Scottish noblemen who were fined by Oliver’s ordinance for Scotland of April 12, 1654, substitute the Earl of Ethie.  He was Sir John Carnegie of Ethie, co.  Forfar, Lord Lour since 1639, and created Earl of Ethie in 1647,—­which title he exchanged, after the Restoration, for that of Earl of Northesk.