[The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by David Masson]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 CHAPTER I 32/46
17, expounding his principles afresh.[1] [Footnote 1: Whitlocke, IV.
376 and 379-380; Ludlow, 751-752; Letters of M.de Bordeaux, in Appendix to Guizot, II.
275, 293, 304; Thomason Tract of date, entitled _Decrees and Orders, &c.;_ and Thomason Catalogue.] Two conclusions at least had been arrived at in the Sub-Committee and Committee, and approved by the Wallingford-House Council of officers, before the middle of November, when they were actually embodied in the Treaty with Monk's Commissioners in London.
One was as to the mode of determining Parliamentary qualifications.
That duty was to be entrusted to a body of nineteen persons, ten of them named (Whitlocke, Vane, Ludlow, St.John, Warriston, &c.), and the other nine to be chosen by the Armies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, three by each.
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