_Milton and the Calves-head Club._--I quote the following from _The Secret
History of the Calves-head Club: or the Republican Unmasqu'd_, 4to., 1703.
The author is relating what was told him by "a certain active Whigg, who,
in all other respects, was a man of probity enough."
"He further told me that Milton, and some other creatures of the
Commonwealth, had instituted this Club [the Calves-head Club], as he
was inform'd, in opposition to Bp. Juxon, Dr. Sanderson, Dr. Hammond,
and other divines of the Church of England, who met privately every
30th of January; and though it was under the Time of Usurpation, had
compil'd a private Form of Service for the Day, not much different from
what we now find in the Liturgy."
Do any of Milton's biographers mention his connexion with this club? Does
the form of prayer compiled by Juxon, Sanderson, and Hammond exist?