Note 1 — Chapter II · (continued 3)
Reading edition
: The Scriptum Domini Protectoris contra Hispanos was reprinted, as indubitably Milton's, in 1738, and again in 1741, to assist in rousing British feeling afresh against Spain; and Birch and all succeeding editors of Milton have agreed in regarding it as his. Godwin, however (Hist. of Commonwealth, IV. 217-219, footnote), suggests doubts.