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Edward Phillips (August, 1630 – ca. 1696), was an English author. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created

He was the son of Edward Phillips of the crown office in chancery, and his wife Anne, only sister of John Milton, the poet. John Milton ( 9 December, 1608 – 8 November, 1674) was an English Poet, Prose Polemicist and Edward Phillips the younger was born in the Strand, London. The Strand is a street in the City of Westminster, London, England. His father died in 1631, and Anne eventually married her husband's successor in the crown office, Thomas Agar. Edward Phillips and his younger brother, John, were educated by Milton. John Phillips (1631 - 1706 was an English Author, the brother of Edward Phillips, and a nephew of John Milton. Edward entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, in November 1650, but left the university in 1651 to work as a bookseller's clerk in London. Magdalen College redirects here see also Magdalene College Cambridge Magdalen College (ˈmɔːdlɨn "maudlin" is one of the constituent

Although he did not share Milton's religious and political views, and seems, to judge from the free character of his Mysteries of Love and Eloquence (1658), to have undergone a certain revulsion from his Puritan upbringing, he remained on affectionate terms with his uncle to the end. A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of Worship and Doctrine, He was tutor to the son of John Evelyn, the diarist, from 1663 to 1672 at Sayes Court, near Deptford, and in 1677-1679 in the family of Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, a prominent Roman Catholic. John Evelyn ( 31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer gardener and diarist Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London. Henry Bennet 1st Earl of Arlington KG (1618 &ndash July 28, 1685) was an English statesman The date of Phillips' death is unknown but his last book is dated 1696.

His most important work is Theatrum poetarum (1675), a list of the chief poets of all ages and countries, but principally of the English poets, with short critical notes and a prefatory Discourse of the Poets and Poetry, which has usually been traced to Milton's hand. He also wrote A New World in Words, or a General Dictionary (1658), which went through many editions; a new edition of Baker's Chronicle, of which the section on the period from 1650 to 1658 was written by himself from the royalist standpoint; a supplement (1676) to John Speed's Theatre of Great Britain; and in 1684 Enchiridion linguae latinae, said to have been taken chiefly from notes prepared by Milton. Richard Baker may refer to Richard Baker (chronicler (1568–1645 English chronicler Richard Baker (broadcaster (born 1925 BBC broadcaster John Speed (1542–1629 was a Historian, now best remembered as the Cartographer whose maps of English counties are often found framed in homes throughout the John Aubrey states that all Milton's papers came into Phillips's hands, and in 1694 he published a translation of his Letters of State with a valuable memoir. "How these curiosities would be quite forgott did not such idle fellowes as I am putt them down

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