[1] Michael Fixler, _Milton and the Kingdoms of God_ (London, 1964), p.
244.
[2] Joseph Kastein, _The Messiah of Ismir_, trans. Huntley Paterson (New
York, 1931), p. 323.
[3] For an account of the events leading to the extra-judicial opinion
of Glyn and Steele, see Samuel R. Gardiner, _History of the Commonwealth
and Protectorate, 1649-1660_, III (London, 1901), 216-222.
[4] _Milton and the Kingdoms of God_ (London, 1964), especially pp.
237-249.
[5] Heinrich Graetz, _History of the Jews_, V (Philadelphia, 1895),
118-167. See also Henry Malter, "Shabetai Zebi B. Mordecai," _The Jewish
Encyclopedia_, X (1905).
[6] Kastein, p. 77.
[7] For a provocative study of apocalypse in fiction, see Frank Kermode,
_The Sense of An Ending_ (Oxford, 1966).