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Milton Appointed Latin Secretary.(poet John Milton)(Brief Article)

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From: History Today
Date: 19990301
Author:Cavendish, Richard

March 16th, 1649

Charles I's head had been off his shoulders for six weeks when John Milton accepted the office of Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Commonwealth Council of State. He had announced his approval of the execution in a pamphlet which came out within a few days of the event and throughout the struggle between Parliament and the King he had been a vigorous anti-Royalist polemicist. He was now forty years old, a slender man of middling height and delicately fastidious ways, who had earned the sneering nickname `Lady' at Christ's College, Cambridge. He had ...

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