Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... BOOK I. APRIL 1638--NOVEMBER 1640. HISTORY: --The Scottish Presbyterian Revolt, And Its Effects On England. BIOGRAPHY: --Milton Back In England: His Epitapuivh Dakonis, And Literary Projects. CHAPTER I. THE SCOTTISH COVENANTERS--THE MARQUIS OF HAMILTON'S MISSION'-- THE GLASGOW A8SEHBLY OF 1638--THE FIRST BELLUM EPISCOPALE, OR "BISHOPS' WAR" WITH THE SCOTS. Milton's return to England, after his fifteen months, more or less, of Continental travel, took place, as he himself tells us, "almost exactly at that time when Charles, the Peace with "the Scots having been broken, was commencing with them "the Second Bishops' War, as they call it: in which when the "Royal forces had been routed in the first conflict, and the "King saw all the English likewise, and that deservedly, "most ill-disposed towards him, he, on the compulsion of "misfortune, and not spontaneously, not very long afterwards "called a Parliament."1 The date, more precisely, was July or August 1639. Before resuming our narrative at this date, it is necessary, for the general purposes of our History, that we should take a retrospect of the course of British events during that First Bisfwps' War, or first war between the Scots and Charles concerning Bishops, to which Milton's words point back as having been begun and concluded during his absence abroad. 1 Dtfeneio *
