About the time that the army was new-modelled (1645), he removed to
a smaller house in Holborn, which opened backward into Lincoln's Inn
Fields. He is not known to have published anything afterwards till
the king's death, when, finding his murderers condemned by the
Presbyterians, he wrote a treatise to justify it, "and to compose
the minds of the people."

He made some remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the
Irish rebels. While he contented himself to write, he perhaps did
only what his conscience dictated; and if he did not very vigilantly
watch the influence of his own passions, and the gradual prevalence
of opinions, first willingly admitted, and then habitually indulged;
if objections, by being overlooked, were forgotten, and desire
superinduced conviction, he yet shared--only the common weakness of
mankind, and might be no less sincere than his opponents. But, as
faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him,
Milton is suspected of having interpolated the book called "Icon
Basilike," which the council of state, to whom he was now made Latin
Secretary, employed him to censure, by inserting a prayer taken from
Sidney's "Arcadia," and imputing it to the king, whom he charges, in
his "Iconoclastes," with the use of this prayer, as with a heavy
come, in the indecent language with which prosperity had emboldened
the advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or
great: "Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true
all-seeing deity--as, immediately before his death, to pop into the
hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as a special relic of
his saintly exercises, a prayer stolen word for word from the mouth
of a heathen woman praying to a heathen god?"

The papers which the king gave to Dr. Juxon on the scaffold the