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      time ago , but has been too busy to dispa ^ tch them . If you shall have time Sto wait for any account of them from Ireland , I will send to tny correspondent there upon the very first notice ,

      though I fear he is in a remote part of the Jdngctatn ; or if you write to either af the two gentlemen naentiQued at the e » , d of the preface * to King ' s Qrigin o / El . ( and make what use you please pif my nfiriie ) I dare say you will have k civil answer . of to

      } repeat _ my ^ wish es success the \\ ljole of y&ur undertaking , and atnf V § ir , Ypur most obedient , Humble Servant , P . LAW . Tjf foe Rqp * Mr . JUrck , in . St . Johns J& ^ fiifvhte ^ lh Loitojoii .

      . Letter II . Siar -X * V , Nfv . 4 , 1737 . WE have no account of Milton in any of our college books , nor the least

      mm * W of hm * except a tradition ttoa £ he staid in college till he was M . A- » stood for a Fellowship agaiivst one King , who carried it against him , and was afterwards drowned in his

      passage to Ireland , and is supposed to \ % e tbe person bewailed by Milton in his poern called Lycid ^ an ( cl t \ &t he tjsij ; tbe uniyeu&ity soon jafter he tp ^ lf ; & 3 M . A . degree . I have consulted the Univ . Register , and find that he \\ m B . A . iu 1 ^ 28 , and M . A . in

      16 $ 2 ? but no account of his age . + I U ^ ve seen some sma ll copies of verses , never yet published , in his hand , in Trinity College library , with the ori ginal plan of hjs Paradise Los 4 ; , by way of tragTed y ^ diviijed ir ^ to acts , with fhe U ^ Hiea' of $ p < J , rama | : | p per&on ^ ¦

      « - - , , - I .. U - ^ - ii TJTZi TXS « . " * « ' ¦ ? ' ¦ : " - > " ' * ? T ^ c re a ^ e - ivo ^ finics meiUioncd in tbe Sty Ed . 1781 . f IVtiJloii w ^ s ^ clviifted pfnpionqrius mipor of Ch p ^ i ppll ^^ , Ff&b . X 2 , J $ MA , in his % it )^ ye ^ f ? iif » cl fi- th e tuitio ^ i icif W . t ^ ill myi C ^ pel , afU > rvard * Bfehfirp of Ross , ifi Irelan ^ . S ^ e Al hen . O ^ m . vtigf'V ^ ft , ' w 4 % v ? . ififoV mm

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      1 think all in one sheets * But this f and whatever relates to his life , has lately been CQtwimunicated to Mr . Pecke , t ( publisher of the Desiderata Cwiosa , ) who says he has got part of a poem of his on Liberty , consisting

      of above 1 . 500 lines , tjoever yet pirb * lished , and equal to any thing in Paradise Lost , wbiqji be \ & gpin ^ to put out with the re $ tof Jhis poetical works and JVfemairs of his JLife . J To him , therefore , I am obliged to refer you for farther information , and am , Sir ,

      Your most hunal ^ le servant , E . LAW . My b ^ st r ^ esMcts to Di % H ^ rtl ^ ^ and Mrs . Hartley when you gee th # m ne&U ?> foe Ifeew . * fr . J 5 ? r ^ , &&t

      Jj& %$ jm > . Ji ff . Rpv . JPr . J&aM ? tQ tU ^ f ipr . JS ^ rcft . S ^ r , Pei < p &o ^ $ jidy \ $ $ ? $ & > IF you hav ^ tim e to loo k into jbh e inclosed letters and papers , you wjH see the reason why 1 t ^ ke the liberty

      of laying them befor-e you , who t J suppose , receive many such , and are the best judge of their iwportam ^ I must leave the scheme proposed to speak for itself , and tf ^ st you w il l be sp g ^ od as to excuse thi ^ troa bl ^ from Sir , Ypur effect ipu at ^ fri ^ n 4 »© d Bervant , Pr . girch . £ . UW . ¦ i . ..... —* .. : .-. \^ ajji — — »»«» ¦ jail i iiik | i « i

      * Sec this s plan in JohflLSOJi ^ s JJx& $ r 1783 I . 164—169 . -f- Rector of ^ Jodeby , L . eicestersfiire . JThis learned antiquary di ^ d in t 743 a ^ red 6 L See Pecke ' s < 4 New Memoirs of the Life and Poetical Woiks of Mr . Jtohn

      iVJilton , ^ 1740 . Among these is " Septistes ; a s ^ cre ^ l < Jminatic poem in defence of liberty , a ? f written in Latia fcji Mr . George Buchanan , translated ii ^ to ^ Q ^ IVlb by My . John Milton , aad fir ^ t ptubli ^ U ^^ l ip 1641 , by order of tjie House of CtimmftW . " It was probably o / tjiis piece that IVlr , iaw had received an erroiuous account as an original poem , and in MS . § See an account of his correspondence ivith Pr- J * | Iw . 8 ep « fe . ¥ ; WO , JJ 1 > jth ^ fV ^ fwl >> iPC . Khifh Br . 3 L . * Ka « f ) leot ^ a 17 | 4 . Ste * ' j ^ , " 291 .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/7/