Crossword-Solution: POWELLS 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Effects of Milton's _Areopagitica_--His Intention of another Marriage: His Wife's Return and Reconciliation with him--Removal from Aldersgate Street to Barbican--First Edition of Milton's Collected Poems: Humphrey Moseley the Bookseller--Two Divorce Sonnets and Sonnet to Henry Lawes--Continued Presbyterian Attacks on Milton: His Anti-Presbyterian Sonnet of Reply--Surrender of Oxford: Condition of the Powell Family--The Powells in London: More Family Perplexities: Birth of Milton's first Child.

Rumours of what was going on, and of the new house in Barbican, had been borne to Oxford, and the Foresthill mansion of the Powells.

Crippled already, like other Royalist families, by necessary contributions to the King's cause, the Powells had begun to be aware, and more poignantly than others because of their more straitened means, that their sacrifices were likely to be all in vain-- that Parliament was to be master, and to have the power of pains and penalties over those whom it called Delinquents.

Still it was a hard thing for the Powells to know that their lease of their family residence and estate was gone, and they were no longer the Powells of Forest-hill.

This, however, was not foreseen, and for the present there was nothing but the misfortunes of the Powells to mar the joy in the Barbican household over the appearance of this little pledge of the reconciliation of Milton and his wife about a year before.