FIRST EDITION OF MILTON’S READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE
COMMONWEALTH:  ACCOUNT OF THE PAMPHLET, WITH EXTRACTS:  VEHEMENT
REPUBLICANISM OF THE PAMPHLET, WITH ITS PROPHETIC WARNINGS:  PECULIAR
CENTRAL IDEA OF THE PAMPHLET, VIZ.  THE PROJECT OF A GRAND COUNCIL OR
PARLIAMENT TO SIT IN PERPETUITY, WITH A COUNCIL OF STATE FOR ITS
EXECUTIVE:  PASSAGES EXPOUNDING THIS IDEA:  ADDITIONAL SUGGESTION OF
LOCAL AND COUNTY COUNCILS OR COMMITTEES:  DARING PERORATION OF THE
PAMPHLET:  MILTON’S RECAPITULATION OF THE SUBSTANCE OF IT IN A SHORT
PRIVATE LETTER TO MONK ENTITLED PRESENT MEANS AND BRIEF
DELINEATION OF A FREE COMMONWEALTH:  WIDE CIRCULATION OF MILTON’S
PAMPHLET:  THE RESPONSE BY MONK AND THE PARLIAMENT OF THE SECLUDED
MEMBERS IN THEIR PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEXT FORTNIGHT:  DISSOLUTION OF
THE PARLIAMENT AFTER ARRANGEMENTS FOR ITS SUCCESSOR:  ROYALIST SQUIB
PREDICTING MILTON’S SPEEDY ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE HANGMAN AT TYBURN: 
ANOTHER SQUIB AGAINST MILTON, CALLED THE CENSURE OF THE ROTA UPON
MR. MILTON’S BOOK:  SPECIMENS OF THIS BURLESQUE:  REPUBLICAN APPEAL
TO MONK, CALLED PLAIN ENGLISH:  REPLY TO THE SAME, WITH ANOTHER
ATTACK ON MILTON:  POPULAR TORRENT OF ROYALISM DURING THE FORTY DAYS
OF INTERVAL BETWEEN THE PARLIAMENT OF THE SECLUDED MEMBERS AND THE
CONVENTION PARLIAMENT (MARCH 16, 1659-60—­APRIL 25, 1660):  CAUTION OF
MONK AND THE COUNCIL OF STATE:  DR. MATTHEW GRIFFITH AND HIS ROYALIST
SERMON, THE FEAR OF GOD AND THE KING:  GRIFFITH IMPRISONED FOR
HIS SERMON, BUT FORWARD REPUBLICANS CHECKED OR PUNISHED AT THE SAME
TIME:  NEEDHAM DISCHARGED FROM HIS EDITORSHIP AND MILTON FROM HIS
SECRETARYSHIP:  RESOLUTENESS OF MILTON IN HIS REPUBLICANISM:  HIS
BRIEF NOTES ON DR. GRIFFITH’S SERMON:  SECOND EDITION OF HIS
READY AND EASY WAY TO ESTABLISH A FREE COMMONWEALTH: 
REMARKABLE ADDITIONS AND ENLARGEMENTS IN THIS EDITION:  SPECIMENS OF
THESE:  MILTON AND LAMBERT THE LAST REPUBLICANS IN THE FIELD:  ROGER
L’ESTRANGE’S PAMPHLET AGAINST MILTON, CALLED NO BLIND GUIDES: 
LARGER ATTACK ON MILTON BY G.S., CALLED HE DIGNITY OF KINGSHIP
ASSERTED:  QUOTATIONS FROM THAT BOOK:  MEETING OF THE CONVENTION
PARLIAMENT, APRIL 25, 1660:  DELIVERY BY GREENVILLE OF THE SIX ROYAL
LETTERS FROM BREDA, APRIL 28—­MAY 1, AND VOTES OF BOTH HOUSES FOR THE
RECALL OF CHARLES; INCIDENTS OF THE FOLLOWING WEEK:  MAD IMPATIENCE
OVER THE THREE KINGDOMS FOR THE KING’S RETURN:  HE AND HIS COURT AT
THE HAGUE, PREPARING FOR THE VOYAGE HOME:  PANIC AMONG THE SURVIVING
REGICIDES AND OTHER PROMINENT REPUBLICANS:  FLIGHT OF NEEDHAM TO
HOLLAND AND ABSCONDING OF MILTON FROM HIS HOUSE IN PETTY FRANCE:  LAST
SIGHT OF MILTON IN THAT HOUSE.