Rare Last Will & Testament Of Elizabeth Milton 1727~Wife Of John Milton Author~

COIN5555 U.S. AND FOREIGN RARE COINS~SPECIAL OFFERING~* Incredibly Rare Last Will And Testament Of Elizabeth Milton Widow Of John Milton Whom Is Considered By Many To Be The Finest Poet In British History. Elizabeth Milton Was Born Elizabeth Mynshull In 1638 the niece of Thomas Mynshull, a Wealthy Apothecary and Philanthropist in Manchester And Lived to 1728 (90 Years). She Wed John Milton Febuary 22nd 1662 And They Stayed Married until His Death on November 8th 1674. He was 55 Years Old AtMarrige And She Was Only 24, a 31 Year Difference.John MiltonProclaimed Her His 3rd And Best Wife. She NeverMarried Again. The Original Will Was Dated August 22nd 1727, And The Inventory List On August 26th 1727.This Rare Copy From The Copy Office Of The Public Episcopal Registry Of Chester Is Dated September 25th, 1854 And Signed By The Registrar Henry Raikes. The Will Contains Fasinating Inventory Entries That Were Left For Her Loved Ones Including 2 Original Copys Of Paradise Lost, One OfJohn Milton'sMost Famous Works, Pictures, Coat Of Arms,Many Other Items Mentioned I did Not Show The CompleteList Due ToPicture Space. The Will Is Folded Into a Phamplet From Quality Paper That Is 8 3/8" Wide And 27 1/2"Long And Is In Excellent Condition. Below Are Some Interesting Facts Regarding Elizabeth And John Milton As Well As Henry Raikes esq (1782-1863)The Registrar Of The Will. This Document Is a Rare Piece Of Not Only British But World History;Jump to: navigation, search For other people named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation).John Milton Portrait of Milton c. 1629, National Portrait Gallery, London. Unknown artist (detail)Born(1608-12-09)December 9, 1608Bread Street, Cheapside, London, EnglandDiedNovember 8, 1674(1674-11-08) (aged65)Bunhill, London, EnglandResting placeSt Giles-without-CripplegateOccupationPoet, prose polemicist, civil servantLanguageEnglish, Latin, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Aramaic, SyriacNationalityEnglishAlmamaterChrist's College, CambridgeSignatureJohn Milton (9 December 1608– 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.Milton's poetry and prose reflect deep personal convictions, a passion for freedom and self-determination, and the urgent issues and political turbulence of his day. Writing in English, Latin, Greek, and Italian, he achieved international renown within his lifetime, and his celebrated Areopagitica (1644)—written in condemnation of pre-publication censorship—is among history's most influential and impassioned defences of free speech and freedom of the press.William Hayley's 1796 biography called him the "greatest English author,"[1] and he remains generally regarded "as one of the preeminent writers in the English language,"[2] though critical reception has oscillated in the centuries since his death (often on account of his republicanism). Samuel Johnson praised Paradise Lost as "a poem which...with respect to design may claim the first place, and with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind," though he (a Tory and recipient of royal patronage) described Milton's politics as those of an "acrimonious and surly republican".[3]Contents[hide]1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 Study, poetry, and travel 1.3 Civil war, prose tracts, and marriage 1.4 Secretary for Foreign Tongues 1.5 The Restoration 1.6 Family2 Poetry 2.1 Paradise Lost3 Views 3.1 Philosophy 3.2 Political thought 3.3 Theology 3.4 Religious toleration 3.5 Divorce 3.6 History4 Legacy and influence 4.1 Early reception of the poetry 4.2 Blake 4.3 Romantic theory 4.4 Later legacy 4.5 Literary legacy 4.6 Musical settings5 Works 5.1 Poetry and drama 5.2 Prose6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksBiography[edit]The phases of Milton's life parallel the major historical and political divisions in Stuart Britain. Under the increasingly personal rule of Charles I and its breakdown in constitutional confusion and war, Milton studied, travelled, wrote poetry mostly for private circulation, and launched a career as pamphleteer and publicist. Under the Commonwealth of England, from being thought dangerously radical and even heretical, the shift in accepted attitudes in government placed him in public office, and he even acted as an official spokesman in certain of his publications. The Restoration of 1660 deprived Milton, now completely blind, of his public platform, but this period saw him complete most of his major works of poetry.Milton's views developed from his very extensive reading, as well as travel and experience, from his student days of the 1620s to the English Civil War.[4] By the time of his death in 1674, Milton was impoverished and on the margins of English intellectual life, yet famous throughout Europe and unrepentant for his political choices.Early life[edit]Main article: Early life of John Milton Blue plaque in Bread Street, London, where Milton was bornJohn Milton was born in Bread Street, London, on 9 December 1608, the son of the composer John Milton and his wife, Sarah Jeffrey. The senior John Milton (1562–1647) moved to London around 1583 after being disinherited by his devout Catholic father, Richard Milton, for embracing Protestantism. In London, the senior John Milton married Sarah Jeffrey (1572–1637) and found lasting financial success as a scrivener.[5] He lived in, and worked from, a house on Bread Street, where the Mermaid Tavern was located in Cheapside. The elder Milton was noted for his skill as a musical composer, and this talent left his son with a lifelong appreciation for music and friendships with musicians such as Henry Lawes.[6]Milton's father's prosperity provided his eldest son with a private tutor, Thomas Young, a Scottish Presbyterian with an M.A. from the University of St. Andrews. Research suggests that Young's influence served as the poet's introduction to religious radicalism.[7] After Young's tutorship Milton attended St Paul's School in London. There he began the study of Latin and Greek, and the classical languages left an imprint on his poetry in English (he also wrote in Italian and Latin). John Milton at age 10 by Cornelis Janssens van CeulenMilton's first datable compositions are two psalms done at age 15 at Long Bennington. One contemporary source is the Brief Lives of John Aubrey, an uneven compilation including first-hand reports. In the work, Aubrey quotes Christopher, Milton's younger brother: "When he was young, he studied very hard and sat up very late, commonly till twelve or one o'clock at night".[8]In 1625 Milton began attending Christ's College, Cambridge. He graduated with a B.A. in 1629,[9] and ranked fourth of 24honours graduates that year in the University of Cambridge.[10] Preparing to become an Anglican priest, Milton stayed on to obtain his Master of Arts degree on 3July 1632.Milton was probably rusticated (suspended) for quarrelling in his first year with his tutor, Bishop William Chappell. He was certainly at home in the Lent Term 1626; there he wrote his Elegia Prima, a first Latin elegy, to Charles Diodati, a friend from St Paul's. Based on remarks of John Aubrey, Chappell "whipt" Milton.[8] This story is now disputed, though certainly Milton disliked Chappell.[11] Historian Christopher Hill cautiously notes that Milton was "apparently" rusticated, and that the differences between Chappell and Milton may have been either religious or personal.[12] It is also possible that, like Isaac Newton four decades later, Milton was sent home because of the plague, by which Cambridge was badly affected in 1625. Later, in 1626, Milton's tutor was Nathaniel Tovey.At Cambridge, Milton was on good terms with Edward King, for whom he later wrote Lycidas. He also befriended Anglo-American dissident and theologian Roger Williams. Milton tutored Williams in Hebrew in exchange for lessons in Dutch.[13] At Cambridge Milton developed a reputation for poetic skill and general erudition, but experienced alienation from his peers and university life as a whole. Watching his fellow students attempting comedy upon the college stage, he later observed 'they thought themselves gallant men, and I thought them fools'.[14]Milton was disdainful of the university curriculum, which consisted of stilted formal debates on abstruse topics, conducted in Latin. His own corpus is not devoid of humour, notably his sixth prolusion and his epitaphs on the death of Thomas Hobson. While at Cambridge he wrote a number of his well-known shorter English poems, among them On the Morning of Christ's Nativity, his Epitaph on the admirable Dramatick Poet, W. Shakespeare, his first poem to appear in print, L'Allegro and Il Penseroso.Study, poetry, and travel[edit]For more details on this topic, see Early life of John Milton. Commemorative blue plaque 'John Milton lived here 1632-1638' at Berkyn Manor Farm, Horton, BerkshireIt appears in all his writings that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities, a lofty and steady confidence in himself, perhaps not without some contempt of others; for scarcely any man ever wrote so much, and praised so few. Of his praise he was very frugal; as he set its value high, and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time, and a certain preservative from oblivion.[15]– Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Most Eminent English PoetsUpon receiving his M.A. in 1632, Milton retired to Hammersmith, his father's new home since the previous year. He also lived at Horton, Berkshire, from 1635 and undertook six years of self-directed private study. Christopher Hill argues that this was not retreat into a rural idyll: Hammersmith was then a "suburban village" falling into the orbit of London, and even Horton was becoming deforested, and suffered from the plague.[16] H