"_montesque nivibus coopertos_," repeated from the Letter to the Duke of Savoy, and "_totius nominis Italici studiosissimum_" which almost repeats the "_toiius Graeci nominis ...

cultor_" of the second Letter to Philaras; and there are also phrases identical with some used in Milton's other letters on the subject of the Massacre which have yet to be noted in this list.

On the other hand, there are passages and expressions in the Speech that strike one as hardly Miltonic, while the purport in some places would favour the idea that Morland wrote the speech himself.

What seems to negative this idea most strongly, and therefore to point most distinctly to Milton as the author, is the existence of the MS.

official copy in the Record Office.