Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-12
JOHN MILTON, POET, BORN 300
YEARS AGO LAST WEDNESDAY,
England Celebrating the the Author Paradise Lost
Despite He Still Stands Vivid FgureOver
OneF Hundred andE Eighty Portraits Of Him Record

poet, while the Tonson family, to whom
Z he copyright was assigned, lived to
ride in their carriages on the profits.
Other works went through many vicis-
STUDIES. The "Eikonoclastes' and DE
Tense of the people of England, SO fa-
nous under the commonwealth, were
burned by the common hangman after
the Restoration; and we have the story
told To the Puritan Richard Baron by
John SWale, a bookseller of Leeds,
in Yorkshire. an honest man, though
of high church," who related that he
could have more money for the burn
ing of the Defense" than Baron would
give for the purchase of it. Some
priests in the neighborhood," accord
ing the Swale, used to meet once n
year, and, after they were well warmed
with strong beer, they sacrificed to the
flames the authors Defensio pro Populo
Anglicano, as also the treatise against
the 'Eikon, And at one time it was
not safe to mention Millions name. the
initials u. NJ being used, as in the
defense of his old friends which An
drew MARVEL wrote against the vitu-
.perative Bishop Parker. Another
Bishop, Sprat OF Rochester, erased
the word Milton from the epitaph on
John Phillips in the cathedral as mot
fit to be in a Christian church,"
TALE PROBABLY UNTRUE.
The tale of the mock funeral Of Mil
ton carried out by his well-wishers
previous to the passing OF the Act of
Indemnity probably Is untrue. He was
compelled to remain in hiding for three
months, however, in Bartholomew
Close, Smithfield, where Benjamin
Franklin more than SO years later
worked as 4 composition, and actually
was in prison for a few days before
the bill was passed and he was al
lowed, already blind. to take up tenn
porary quarters III a house near Lin
coins Inn and what were then Red
Lion Fields
1t is curious fact and one to be re-
GREETED in connection with the present
London celebration of Miltons tercen-
tenary, that not one Of Mi!ton's homes
in the city remains to this day. His
birthplace, The house of John Milton,
sclivener, in Bread street: his lodgings,
after his return from his French and
Italian tour. III st. Brides Churchyard,
near Fleet street, his house and garden
in Aldcrsgate street. than which in his
time there We're "few streets in London
more free from noise,' according to
his nephew, Edward Phillips; his mores
in the Barbican, whittier he went after
his reconciliation with his first wife, i'll
High Holborn, and In Spring Gardens.
Il neighborhood now chiefly associated
with the London County Council; that
in Petty France, now York street.
where he married his second wife ana
whence he fed after the Restoration
to Bartholomew Close: ana his last
two abodes in .Jewin street. Aldersgate.
and In Artillery walk, Bunhill Fields.
where he made the third marriage, so
distasteful TO his daughter Mary-all
these have been swept away altogether
or are no longer to be identified. His
old school. too. Is gone, for st. Paul's
since 1854 has left the churchyard OF the
cathedral from which it took its name.
and the buildings, themselves rebuilt
since Miton's school days, on account
of the fire of 1866. have been pulled