CHAP. II. THIRD SECTION. Milton through Monk's Dictatorship: Feb. 1659-60--May 1660.--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 _The 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.        *       *       *       *       * BOOK I. SEPTEMBER 1654--JUNE 1657. HISTORY:--OLIVER'S FIRST PROTECTORATE CONTINUED. BIOGRAPHY:--MILTON'S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH THE FIRST PROTECTORATE CONTINUED. THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON, WITH THE HISTORY OF HIS TIME.