[Footnote 1:  Thurloe, VII 286 and 298-299 (Letters of Nieuport to the States-General), 362 (Letter of Thurloe to Henry Cromwell), and 373-374 (Latin letter of Schlezer to Thurloe, two days after Cromwell’s death).]

Thirty-three Latin State-Letters and five Latin Familiar Epistles are the productions of Milton’s pen we have hitherto registered as belonging to the Second Protectorate of Oliver.  Two or three incidents, appertaining more properly to his Literary Biography, have yet to be noticed before we leave the period.

Here is the title of a little foreign tract of which I have seen a solitary, and perhaps unique, copy:-"Dissertationis ad quoedam loca Miltoni Pars Posterior; quam, adspirante Deo, Praesids Dn.  Jacobo Schallero, S.S, Theol.  Doct, et Philos.  Pract.  Prof., ad. h.t.  Facult.  Phil.  Decano, solenniter defendet die[17] mens.  Septemb.  Christophorus Guentzer, Argentorat.  Argentorati, Typis Friderici Spoor, 1657” ("Second Part of a Dissertation, on certain Passages of Milton; which, with God’s favour, and tinder the presidency of James Schaller, Doctor of Divinity and Professor of Practical Philosophy, acting as Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy for the occasion, Christopher Guentzer of Strasburg will solemnly defend on the 17th of September.  Strasburg, Printed by Frederic Spoor, 1657").  Of the Schaller here mentioned we have heard before in connexion with a publication of his in 1653, also entitled Dissertatio ad loca quaedam Miltoni, and appended then to certain Exercitationes concerning the English Regicide by the Leipsic jurist Caspar Ziegler (Vol.  IV. pp. 534-535).  He seems to have retained an interest in the subject, and to have kept it up among those about him; for here, four years after his own Dissertation, he is to preside at the academic defence of another on the same subject by a Christopher Guentzer, who was probably one of his pupils.  Young Guentzer, it seems, had been trying his hand on the subject already; for this is but the “second part” of his performance.  The “first part” I have not seen, though it seems to have been published.  The “second part” is a thin quarto, paged 45-92, as if to be bound with the first.  It is in a juvenile and dry style of quotation and academic reasoning, modelled after Schaller’s older Dissertation, and not worth an abstract.  More interesting than itself are eleven pieces of congratulatory Latin verse prefixed to it by college friends of the disputant.  In more than one of these Milton is mentioned; but the liveliest mention of him is in a set of Phalaecians signed “Christianus Keck.”  Phalaecians are not to be attempted in English; but, as the semi-absurd relish of the thing would be lost in prose, the first few lines may run into a kind of equivalent doggrel:—­