Obdoria, Condinia, Wietepsky, M’Stitslof, Lord of all the Northern Lands, Lord of the Land of Iversky, Czar of Cartalinsky and Grusinsky, and of the Land of Cardadinsky, Prince of the Circasses and Gorshes, heir of his Father and Grand-father, and Lord and Sovereign of many other Easterly, Westerly, and Northerly Lordships and Dominions.”  Milton, for the Protector, is somewhat more economical and uses Rex for Czar.]

The mission of BRADSHAW to Russia was not the only incident in the Protector’s diplomatic service about this time in which Milton, as Foreign Secretary Extraordinary, may have felt an interest.  MORLAND, after having been in Switzerland for about a year and a half on the business that had grown out of his original Piedmontese mission, had been at length recalled, leaving the Swiss agency, as before, in the hands of PELL by himself.  He had been back in London since Dec. 1656, had attended the Council several times to give full and formal report of his proceedings, and had also appeared before the great Committee for the Collection for the Piedmontese Protestants, and presented his accounts of the moneys received and expended.  All that he had done met with high approbation; and, by way of reward in kind, it was voted by the Council, May 5, 1657, that he should have L700 for ’the charge of paper, printing, and cutting of the maps, for 2000 copies of his History,’ and the whole of the profits of that book.  Morland’s History of the Evangelical Churches of Piemont, which appeared in the following year, was therefore a State publication the copyright of which was made over to the author.  More munificent still was the reward of the services of MEADOWS in Portugal.  His special mission having been successfully accomplished, and ordinary consular duty in Lisbon having been put into good hands, he too had returned to London, but only to be designated at once (Feb. 24, 1656-7) for another mission of importance.  This was that mission to the King of Denmark which Cromwell had promised in his letter to the King of Dec. 1656, but for which a suitable person had not then been found.  To Meadows, fresh from Portugal, the appointment to Denmark was in itself a high compliment; but there were very substantial accompaniments.  His allowance in his new mission was to be L1000 a year; a special sum of L400 was voted for the expense of his journey; and it was ordered that, for his able discharge of his Portuguese mission, L100 a year should be settled on him and his for ninety-nine years—­a vote partly commuted a few days afterwards (March 19) into a present money-payment of L1000.  For DURIE, who was also now back in England, and indeed close to Milton in Westminster, after another of his roving missions, first through Switzerland, and then in other parts, there was to be no employment so distinguished as that found for Meadows.  It was enough that he should be at hand for any farther service of propagandism in behalf of his life-long idea of a Pan-Protestant