Note 1 — Chapter II
Reading edition
: So dated in the official copy preserved in the Record Office (Hamilton's Milton Papers, p. 15) and in the copy actually delivered to the Duke (Morland, pp. 572-574)—the phrase in both being "Dabantur ex aula nostra Westmonasterii, 25 Maii, anno 1654." In the Skinner Transcript, however, the dating is "Westmonsterio, May 10, 1655;" which again is changed into "Alba Aula, May 1655," i.e. "Whitehall, May 1655" (month only given) in the Printed Collections and in Phillips.