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The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

CHAPTER I
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He was buried in Westminster Abbey, a sum of L200 having been voted for his funeral by the Protector and Council.

Eight months after his death there was published from his manuscript, by his friend and former chaplain, Dr.Nicholas Bernard, that famous _Reduction of Episcopacy into the form of Synodical Government_ which had got about surreptitiously in 1641 (Vol.

II.
229-230), and which was then regarded, and has been regarded ever since, as the most feasible model of a Low-Church Episcopacy adapted to Presbyterian forms.[1] [Footnote 1: Neal, IV.

135-137 and 101-2; Burnet (ed.

1823) I.110; Baxter, 172-178 and 206; Thomason Catalogue, Nov.


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