To Leonard Philaras. (Familiar Letters, No. XII.)
P. 85. Angier (René): resident agent in Paris for the English Parliament.
To Henry Oldenburg. (Familiar Letters, No. XIV.)
P. 87. Henry Oldenburg: b. at Bremen about 1615, d. 1677; sent in 1653 by the Council of Bremen as their agent to negotiate with Cromwell some arrangement by which the neutrality of Bremen should be respected in the naval war between England and Holland (‘Dict. of National Biography’); became a member and secretary of the Royal Society of London, and was afterward elected a fellow of the Society; corresponded extensively with the philosopher, Benedict Spinosa; published the ‘Transactions’ of the Royal Society from 1664 to 1677.
P. 87. ‘Cry’ of that kind ‘to Heaven’: the reference is to the Regii Sanguinis Clamor ad Cœlum, adversus Parricidas Anglicanos (The Cry of the Royal Blood to Heaven against the English Parricides).
P. 87. Morus: Alexander More, whom Milton supposed to be the author of ‘The Cry of the Royal Blood to Heaven.’ See note, p. 248.