487).] On the day on which Dryden received his fifty pounds from Thurloe there was this entry in the birth-registers of the parish of St.
Margaret's, Westminster: "October 19, 1657, _Katherin Milton, d.

to John, Esq., by Katherin_." The entry may be still read in the book, with these words appended in an old hand some time afterwards: "_This is Milton, Oliver's Secretary_." It is the record of the birth of a daughter to Milton by his second wife, Katharine Woodcock, in the twelfth month of their marriage.

The little incident reminds us at this point of the domestic life in Petty France; but it need not delay us.

We proceed with the Secretaryship.
Whatever share of the regular work of the Foreign Department may have been now allotted to Marvell, an occasional letter was still required from Milton.

The following Latin dispatches were written by him between September 1657 and Jan.