CHAPTER II.
MILTON'S LIFE AND SECRETARYSHIP THROUGH THE FIRST PROTECTORATE CONTINUED: SEPTEMBER 1654--JUNE 1657.
For more than reasons of mere mechanical symmetry, it will be well to divide this Chapter of Milton's Biography into Sections corresponding with those of Oliver's Continued Protectorate in the preceding Chapter.
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.
In October 1654 there was out at the Hague, from Ulac's press, a volume in two parts, with this title: "_Joannis Miltoni Defensio Secunda pro Populo Anglicano contra infamem Libellum, cujus titulus 'Regii Sanguinis Clamor adversus Parricidas Anglicanos.' Accessit Alexandri Mori, Ecclesiastae, Sacrarumque Litterarum Professoris, Fides Publica contra calumnias Joannis Miltoni, Scurrae.

Hagae-Comitum, ex Typographia Adriani Ulac_, MDCLIV." ("John Milton's Second Defence for the English People in reply to an infamous Book entitled 'Cry of the King's Blood against the English Parricides.' To which is added A Public Testimony of Alexander Morus, Churchman, and Professor of Sacred Literature, in reply to the Calumnies of John Milton, Buffoon.

Printed at the Hague by Adrian Ulac, 1654.") The reprint of Milton's _Defensio Secunda_ fills 128 pages of the volume; More's appended _Fides Publica_, or Public Testimony, in reply, is in larger type and fills 129 pages separately numbered.