Royal Milton

In the autumn of 1629, John Milton returned to Christ’s College, Cambridge, to start his postgraduate studies. Milton began his MA as the university was planning an important event, which the biblical scholar and Christ’s tutor Joseph Mede described in a letter of September 19: “The French Ambassador comes hither on Wednesday next, & they say our Chancellour with him. On Thursday we haue an Act for him at the Schooles. Whether the Comedy at Trinitie will be ready I know not. Some say they cannot gett their lessons”. [Opening Paragraph]