Milton's Life and Secretaryship through the First Protectorate continued: September 1654-June 1657 .-- SECTION I.: From September 1654 to January 1654-5, or Through Oliver's First Parliament .-- Ulac's Hague Edition of Milton's _Defensio Secunda_, with the _Fides Publica_ of Morus annexed: Preface by Dr.Crantzius to the Reprint: Ulac's own Preface of Self-Defence: Account of Morus's _Fides Publica_, with Extracts: His Citation of Testimonies to his Character: Testimony of Diodati of Geneva: Abrupt Ending of the Book at this Point, with Ulac's Explanation of the Cause .-- Particulars of the Arrest and Imprisonment of Milton's Friend Overton .-- Three more Latin State-Letters by Milton for Oliver (Nos.
XLIX.-LI.): No State-Letters by Milton for the next Three Months: Milton then busy on a Reply to the _Fides Publica_ of Morus.
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SECTION II.: From January 1654-5 to September 1656, or Through the Period of Arbitrariness .-- Letter to Milton from Leo de Aitzema: Milton's Reply: Letter to Ezekiel Spanheim at Geneva: Milton's Genovese Recollections and Acquaintances: Two more of Milton's Latin State-Letters (Nos.LII., LIII.): Small Amount of Milton's Despatch-Writing for Cromwell hitherto .-- Reduction of Official Salaries, and Proposal to Reduce Milton's to L150 a Year: Actual Commutation of his L288 a Year at Pleasure into L200 for Life: Orders of the Protector and Council relating to the Piedmontese Massacre, May 1655: Sudden Demand on Milton's Pen in that Business: His Letter of Remonstrance from the Protector to the Duke of Savoy, with Ten other Letters to Foreign States and Princes on the same Subject (Nos.
LIV.-LXIV.): His Sonnet on the Subject .-- Publication of the _Supplementum_ to More's _Fides Publica_: Account of the _Supplementum_, with Extracts: Milton's Answer to the _Fides Publica_ and the _Supplementum_ together in his _Pro Se Defensio_, Aug.

1655: Account of that Book, with Specimens: Milton's Disbelief in Morus's Denials of the Authorship of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_: His Reasons, and his Reassertions of the Charge in a Modified Form: His Notices of Dr.Crantzius and Ulac: His Renewed Onslaughts on Morus: His Repetition of the Bontia Accusation and others: His Examination of Morus's Printed Testimonials: Ferocity of the Book to the last: Its Effects on Morus .-- Question of the Real Authorship of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_ and of the Amount of Morus's Concern in it: The Du Moulin Family: Dr.Peter Du Moulin the Younger the Real Author of the _Regii Sanguinis Clamor_, but Morus the Active Editor and the Writer of the Dedicatory Epistle: Du Moulin's own Account of the whole Affair: His close Contact with Milton all the while, and Dread of being found out .-- Calm in Milton's Life after the Cessation of the Morus-Salmasius Controversy: Home-Life in Petty France: Dabblings of the Two Nephews in Literature: John Phillips's _Satyr against Hypocrites_: Frequent Visitors at Petty France: Marvell, Needham, Cyriack Skinner, &c.: The Viscountess Ranelagh, Mr.Richard Jones, and the Boyle Connexion: Dr.Peter Du Moulin in that Connexion: Milton's Private Sonnet on his Blindness, his Two Sonnets to Cyriack Skinner, and his Sonnet to young Lawrence: Explanation of these Four Sonnets .-- _Scriptum Domini Protectoris contra Hispanos_: Thirteen more Latin State-Letters of Milton for the Protector (Nos.
LXV.-LXXVII.), with Special Account of Count Bundt and the Swedish Embassy in London: Count Bundt and Mr.Milton .-- Increase of Light Literature in London: Erotic Publications: John Phillips in Trouble for such: Edward Phillips's London Edition of the Poems of Drummond of Hawthornden: Milton's Cognisance of the same .-- Henry Oldenburg and Mr.Richard Jones at Oxford: Letters of Milton to Jones and Oldenburg .-- Thirteen more State-Letters of the Milton Series (Nos.
LXXVIII.-XC.): Importance of some of them.
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SECTION III.: From September 1656 to June 1657, or Through the First Session of Oliver's Second Parliament .-- Another Letter from Milton to Mr.Richard Jones: Departure of Lady Ranelagh for Ireland: Letter from Milton to Peter Heimbach: Milton's Second Marriage: His Second Wife, Katharine Woodcock: Letter to Emeric Bigot: Milton's Library and the Byzantine Historians: M.Stoupe: Ten more State-Letters by Milton for the Protector (Nos.

XCI.-C.): Morland, Meadows, Durie, Lockhart, and other Diplomatists of the Protector, back in London: More Embassies and Dispatches over Land and Sea: Milton Standing and Waiting: His Thoughts about the Protectorate generally..