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9. HEH, EL 7852, Castle to Bridgewater, 22 August 1640. For the proclamation see J. F. Larkin (ed.), Stuart Royal Proclamations (Oxford, 1983), vol. II, pp. 726–8. The Venetian ambassador thought it a ‘labour lost’ on an already pro-Scottish public: Razzell and Razzell (eds.), A Contemporary Account, vol. 2, p. 27. The Castle letter apparently summarizes it inaccurately, adding the claim that failure to support the war effort strenuously was treasonous. For another example of the inaccurate circulation of information in provincial copies see Walter Yonge’s copy of an inaccurate version of a Covenanters” petition in 1637: Donald, Uncounselled King, pp. 176–7.
10. Stevenson, Scottish Revolution, p. 208.
11. HEH, EL 7859, Castle to Bridgewater, 8 September 1640. Other copies of this letter survive, see below, ch. 3, n. 98.
12. Donald, Uncounselled King, pp. 244–51; Peter Donald, ‘New Light on the Anglo-Scottish Contacts of 1640’, HR, 148 (1989), 121–9; Russell, Fall, pp. 151–3; Stevenson, Scottish Revolution, pp. 205–6; David Scott, ‘“Hannibal at our gates””: Loyalists and Fifth-Columnists during the Bishops” Wars – the Case of Yorkshire’, HR, 70 (1997), 269–93. For Castle’s suspicion about collusion see EL 7847, Castle to Bridgewater, 8 August 1640.
13. For the litmus test see Russell, Fall, pp. 154; See also Stevenson, Scottish Revolution, p. 214. For the politics of the label ‘rebel’ See also the Commons rebuke of a speaker for referring to them as rebels: CJ, ii, p. 25. There is also evidence of problems in publishing the proclamation: Larkin (ed.), Royal Proclamations, p. 727 n. 2. For collusion see John Adamson, The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I (London, 2007), esp. ch. 1.
14. Stevenson, Scottish Revolution, p. 43.
15. For excellent introductions and overviews see Diarmaid MacCulloch, Reformation: Europe’s House Divided 1490–1700 (London, 2003), pp. 106–27, 241–4; Euan Cameron, The European Reformation (Oxford, 1991), ch. 8. For precise summaries with a view to the political implications see Quentin Skinner, The Foundations of Modern Political Thought, vol. 2: The Age of Reformation (Cambridge, 1978), pp. 3–12; Francis Oakley, ‘Christian Obedience and Authority, 1520–1550’, in J. H. Burns, with the assistance of Mark Goldie (eds.), The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450–1700 (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 159–92, esp. pp. 163–75.
16. MacCulloch, Reformation, pp. 126–32; Cameron, European Reformation, chs. 9–11.
17. For the role of the priesthood see Cameron, European Reformation, pp. 148–51. For Münster and the Peasants” War see ibid., pp. 202–9, 324–5; MacCulloch, Reformation, pp. 157–63, 204–7.
18. See especially Peter Lake, ‘Anti-Popery: The Structure of a Prejudice’, in Richard Cust and Ann Hughes (eds.), Conflict in Early Stuart England (Harlow, 1989), pp. 72–106; Paul Christianson, Reformers and Babylon: English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War (Toronto, 1978).
19. MacCulloch, Reformation, pp. 237–41; Cameron, European Reformation, pp. 151–5; Gordon Donaldson, ‘The Scottish Church, 1567–1625’, in A. G. R. Smith (ed.), The Reign of James VI and I (London, 1972), pp. 40–56, at pp. 44–5. For the wider political background see Oakley, ‘Christian Obedience’, and Robert M. Kingdom, ‘Calvinist Resistance Theory, 1550–1580’, in Burns with Goldie (eds.), History of Political Thought, pp. 193–218.
20. MacCulloch, Reformation, p. 238.
21. Cameron, European Reformation, pp. 145–8; Gordon Donaldson, The Scottish Reformation (Cambridge, 1960), pp. 76–80, 107–8.
22. The Book of Discipline that Knox produced for the kirk was almost certainly completed after the end of the parliamentary session, and the parliament had clearly worked with a draft version: Donaldson, Scottish Reformation, pp. 61–2. For the sceptical view of the heroic view of an irresistible and popular pressure for reformation, and the inevitability of its Presbyterian