C.

Caedmon, question of Milton’s indebtedness to, 169

Calderon’s “Magico Prodigioso” compared with “Comus,” 54;
  with “Paradise Lost,” 163

Cambridge in Milton’s time, 22

Cardinal Barberini receives Milton, 62

Caroline, Princess, her kindness to Milton’s daughter, 195

Chalfont St. Giles, Milton’s residence at, 173

Chappell, W., Milton’s college tutor, 24

Charles I., illegal government of, 30;
  expedition against the Scots, 67;
  execution of, 100;
  alleged authorship of “Eikon Basilike,” 105-107;
  a bad king, but not a bad man, 110

Charles II., restoration of, 138;
  favour to Roman Catholics, 188

Christ’s College, Milton at, 22

“Christian Doctrine,” Milton’s treatise on, 99, 190-193

“Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes,” 132

Clarke, Deborah, Milton’s youngest daughter;
  her reminiscences of her father, 195

Clarke, Mr. Hyde, his discoveries respecting Milton’s ancestry, 14, 15

Clarke, Sir T., Milton’s MSS. preserved by, 129

Coleridge, Milton compared with, 41;
  on Milton’s taste for music, 63;
  on “Paradise Regained,” 178

Comenius, educational method of, 76

Commonwealth, Milton’s views of a free, 136

“Comus,” production of, 38, 44, 46;
  criticism on, 53-55

“Considerations on the likeliest means to remove Hirelings out of the Church,” 133

Copernican theory only partly adopted in “Paradise Lost,” 158

Cosmogony of Milton, 157

Cromwell, Milton’s character of, 121;
  Milton’s advice to, 122

D.

Dante and Milton compared, 160

Daughters, character of Milton’s, 142

Davis, Miss, Milton’s suit to, 94

Deity, imperfect conception of, in “Paradise Lost,” 154

Denham, Sir J., his admiration of “Paradise Lost,” 177

Diodati, Milton’s friendship with, 21;
  verses to, 25;
  letters to, 39, 41, 55;
  death of, 65;
  Milton’s elegy on, 43, 67

“Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce,” 79, 87-91

Dryden, on “Paradise Lost,” 177;
  visits Milton, 187;
  dramatizes “Paradise Lost,” 187

Du Moulin, Peter, author of “Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Coelum,” 118

E.

Edmundson, Mr. G., on Milton and Vondel, 170

Education, Milton’s tract on, 75-77

“Eikon Basilike,” authorship of, 105-107

“Eikonoklastes,” Milton’s reply to “Eikon Basilike,” 108

Ellwood, Thomas, the Quaker, reads to Milton, 145;
  suggests “Paradise Regained,” 175

Elzevir, Daniel, receives and gives up the MS. of “State Letters” and the “Treatise on Christian Doctrine,” 191