Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON: NARRATED IN CONNEXION WITH THE POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND LITERARY HISTORY OF HIS TIME. VOL. III. 1643-1649. BY DAVID MASSON, M.A., LL.D. CONTENTS. BOOK I. JULY 1643--MARCH 1643-4. _HISTORY_:--FIRST EIGHT MONTHS OF THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY: CIVIL WAR AND THE LONG PARLIAMENT CONTINUED. _BIOGRAPHY_:--MILTON STILL IN ALDERSGATE STREET: HIS MARRIAGE MISFORTUNE: HIS FIRST DIVORCE TREATISE. CHAP. I. The Westminster Assembly in Session--The Solemn League and Covenant: Scottish Commissioners in the Assembly--Debates on Church-Government: _Apologetical Narration_ of the Independents--Parliamentary Proceedings--Scottish Auxiliary Army in England II. Milton unhappy in his Marriage: His First Divorce Tract: Two Editions of it BOOK II. MARCH 1644-MARCH 1645. _HISTORY_:--THE YEAR OF MARSTON MOOR: CIVIL WAR, LONG PARLIAMENT, AND WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY CONTINUED--STRUGGLE OF INDEPENDENCY WITH PRESBYTERIANISM: TOLERATION CONTROVERSY: ENGLISH SECTS AND SECTARIES-- PRESBYTERIAN SETTLEMENT VOTED--NEW MODEL OF THE ARMY. _BIOGRAPHY_:--MILTON AMONG THE SECTARIES: HIS SECOND DIVORCE PAMPHLET, _TRACT ON EDUCATION_, _AREOPAGITICA_, _TETRACHORDON_, AND _COLISTERION_. CHAP. I. Inactivity of the Scottish Auxiliaries--Spread of Independency and Multiplication of Sects--Visitation of the University of Cambridge-- Battle of Marston Moor--Fortnight's Vacation of the Westminster Assembly (July 23-August 7, 1644),--Principle of Toleration and State of the Toleration Controversy: Synopsis of English Sects and Sectaries in 1644.- -Resumption of Assembly's Proceedings: Denunciation of Picked Sectaries and Heretics--Cromwell's Interference for Independency: Accommodation Order of Parliament--Presbyterian Settlement voted--Essex beaten and the War flagging: Self-denying Ordinance and New Model of the Army-- Parliamentary Vengeances: Death of Laud II. Milton among the Sectaries, and in a "World of Disesteem": Story of Mrs. Attaway--Samuel Hantlib, John Durie, and John Amos Comenius: Schemes of a Reformed Education, and Project of a London University--Milton's _Tract on Education_, and Method with his Pupils--His Second Divorce Tract, or Compilation from Bucer--Mr. Herbert Palmer's Attack on Milton from the Pulpit--Milton and the Stationers' Company: Their Accusation of him in a Petition to the Commons--His _Areopagitica_, or Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing--Anger of the Stationers, and their Complaint against Milton to the Lords: Consequence of the Complaint--The Divorce Question continued: Publication of Mr. Herbert Palmer's Sermon, and farther Attacks on Milton by Prynne, Dr. Featley, and an Anonymous Pamphleteer--_Tetrachordon_ and _Colasterion_: Their Replies to the Assailants. BOOK III. APRIL 1645-AUGUST 1646.