SECOND SECTION.

Milton's Life and Secretaryship through the Anarchy: May 1659--Feb.

1659-60 .-- _First Stage of the Anarchy, or The Restored Rump_ (May--Oct.

1659):--Feelings and Position of Milton in the new State of Things: His Satisfaction on the whole, and the Reasons for it: Letter of Moses Wall to Milton: Renewed Agitation against Tithes and Church Establishment: Votes on that Subject in the Rump: Milton's _Considerations touching the Likeliest Means to remove Hirelings out of the Church_: Account of the Pamphlet, with Extracts: Its thorough-going Voluntaryism: Church-Disestablishment demanded absolutely, without Compensation for Vested Interests: The Appeal fruitless, and the Subject ignored by the Rump: Dispersion of that Body by Lambert .-- _Second Stage of the Anarchy, or The Wallingford-House Interruption_ (Oct.-Dec.

1659):--Milton's Thoughts on Lambert's coup d'etat in his _Letter to a Friend concerning the Ruptures of the Commonwealth_: The Letter in the main against Lambert and in Defence of the Rump: Its extraordinary practical Proposal of a Government by two Permanent Central Bodies: The Proposal compared with the actual Administration by the _Committee of Safety_ and the Wallingford-House Council of Officers: Milton still nominally in the Latin Secretaryship: Money Warrant of Oct.