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Biographical Sketch
shortly after his release, through Milton's efforts, from Newgate, where he had been imprisoned for printing Salmasius's defence of King Charles.
Libraries did not occupy all of Dury's attention in 1650, for at least nine other works were published by him in that year, the last being a plea in his own defence, entitled, The unchanged, constant and singlehearted Peacemaker. For Dury did not escape bitter animosity and attacks from those who suspected his extraordinary zeal to arise from "mysterious and sinister motives," and from bitter partisans like Prynne, who called forth the above-mentioned de-
