4292 (f.
121); where the copyist "J.

Owen" (the Rev.J.Owen of Rochdale) certifies it as from the original.

It was printed, not very correctly, by Richard Baron, in 1756, in his preface to his edition of the _Eikonoklastes._] Here, from a man evidently after Milton's own heart on the Church question, we have Milton's welcome back into the ranks of the old Republicans.

And more and more through the five months of the first Restoration of the Rump (May 7--Oct.

13) the friends of "the good old cause" had reason to know that Milton was again one of themselves.