"In the middle of the Commonplace Book was found a short letter by Henry Lawes to Milton. We know that Lawes set to music some of Milton's poetry, and that Milton addressed a Sonnet . . to him. This letter shows that he had influence enough to get the licence necessary to enable his friend to leave England for the Continent. The letter is without date, but the wording of it proves it to have been written before 1643. The writer says that he sends to Milton a letter from the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and that if Milton intended to write himself he could not have a safer convoy for both than from Suffolk House. Now, in 1638 Theophilus Howard Earl of Suffolk was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports; and his town-house at Charing Cross was known as Suffolk House. In 1642 that house was purchased by Algernon Percy Earl of Northumberland, and the same house was afterwards called Northumberland House. As we have no intimation from
any source of an intention by Milton to make a second journey abroad, U may be safely concluded that the letter was written on the occasion of Milton's preparation[…]"
Excerpt From: John Milton, Alfred John Horwood. "A Common-place Book of John Milton: And a Latin Essay and Latin Verses ..." Printed for the CamdenSociety, 1877. iBooks.
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the henry lawes music begins half way into the video.
from a common place book attributed to john milton. the text made from extracts of classical euroese writings and some selections of writings from miltons contemporaries.
the whole text of this common place book can be read at archive.org. some of the notes are written in latin, a few in english.
the passages above come from the preface to the book and from a letter to milton from henry lawes, they are not miltons notes. included in this edition is the full text of the letter on a loose page mentioned in the above extract.
milton, the author of paradise lost, paradise regained and the agonies of samson, which mentions the god of the deep ones, so milton was a lovecraft fan.
a passport as a licence, similar to a drivers licence, a business licence, or maybe artistic licence.
the passport as a licence to travel without being suspected of having a licence to spy for thit's nations government.
but in the end they slip through, and passports seem to of been designed to facilitate safe passage for intelligence agents.
the history of the passport seems bound up with the history of surveillance.
a visa is a passport with limitations where the person can goe and how long they can stay in the country.
this interview with michael springmann at the corbettreport describes unusual visa requests at an american embassy in the middle east. alleged terrorists were being recommended for visas to the united states from some or all of the staff who were american intelligence assets.
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