Breda:  Greenville sent back from Breda with a Commission for Monk and Six other Documents.—­Broken-spiritedness of the Republican Leaders, but formidable Residue of Republicanism in the Army:  Monk’s Measures for Paralysing the same:  Successful Device of Charges; Montague’s Fleet in Motion:  Escape of Lambert from the Tower:  His Rendezvous in Northamptonshire:  Gathering of a Wreck of the Republicans round him:  Dick Ingoldsby sent to crush him:  The Encounter near Daventry, April 22, 1660, and Recapture of Lambert:  Great Review of the London Militia, April 24, the day before the Meeting of the Convention Parliament:  Impatient longing for Charles:  Monk still impenetrable, and the Documents from Breda reserved.

CHAP. 
II.  FIRST SECTION.  Milton’s Life and Secretaryship through Richard’s
Protectorate:  Sept. 1658-May 1659.—­Milton and Marvell still in the
Latin Secretaryship:  Milton’s first Five State-Letters for Richard
(Nos.  CXXXIII.-CXXXVII.):  New Edition of Milton’s Defensio
Prima:  Remarkable Postscript to that Edition:  Six more
State-Letters for Richard (Nos.  CXXXVIII.-CXLIII.):  Milton’s
Relations to the Conflict of Parties round Richard and in Richard’s
Parliament:  His probable Career but for his Blindness:  His continued
Cromwellianism in Politics, but with stronger private Reserves,
especially on the Question of an Established Church:  His Reputation
that of a man of the Court-Party among the Protectoratists:  His
Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes:  Account of
the Treatise, with Extracts:  The Treatise more than a Plea for
Religious Toleration:  Church-Disestablishment the Fundamental Idea: 
The Treatise addressed to Richard’s Parliament, and chiefly to Vane
and the Republicans there:  No Effect from it:  Milton’s Four last
State-Letters for Richard (Nos.  CXLIV.-CXLVII.):  His Private Epistle
to Jean Labadie, with Account of that Person:  Milton in the month
between Richard’s Dissolution of his Parliament and his formal
Abdication:  His Two State-Letters for the Restored Rump (Nos. 
CXLVIII.-CXLIX.)

CHAP.  II.  SECOND SECTION.  Milton’s Life and Secretaryship through the Anarchy:  May 1659—­Feb. 1659-60.—­First Stage of the Anarchy, or The Restored Rump (May—­Oct. 1659):—­Feelings and Position of Milton in the new State of Things:  His Satisfaction on the whole, and the Reasons for it:  Letter of Moses Wall to Milton:  Renewed Agitation against Tithes and Church Establishment:  Votes on that Subject in the Rump:  Milton’s Considerations touching the Likeliest Means to remove Hirelings out of the Church:  Account of the Pamphlet, with Extracts:  Its thorough-going Voluntaryism:  Church-Disestablishment demanded absolutely, without Compensation for Vested Interests:  The Appeal fruitless, and the Subject ignored by the Rump:  Dispersion of that Body by Lambert.—­Second Stage of the Anarchy, or The Wallingford-House Interruption