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46. Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (London, 1967); Nicholas Tyacke, ‘The Fortunes of English Puritanism, 1603–40’, reprinted in Tyacke, Aspects, pp. 111–31. For a clear narrative see Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Later Reformation in England, 1547–1603 (Basingstoke, 1990), chs. 3–4; John Spurr, English Puritanism 1603–1689 (Basingstoke, 1998), chs. 4–6.

47. Tyacke, Aspects, chs. 5–9; Tyacke, Anti-Calvinists; Lake, ‘Calvinism’; Peter Lake, ‘The Laudian Style: Order Uniformity and the Pursuit of Holiness in the 1630s’, in Fincham (ed.), Early Stuart Church, pp. 161–85; Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake, ‘The Ecclesiastical Policies of James I and Charles I’, in ibid., pp. 23–49. The debate is summarized in Marshall, Reformation England, pp. 194–205.

48. Lake, ‘Anti-Popery’, pp. 81–2, 87–92. This was indeed the analysis presented in the Grand Remonstrance: see above, pp. 169–70. For court Catholicism see above, p. 73. For conspiracy theories as a product of a system in which personal influence was crucial, and competing world views contended for influence, see Peter Lake, ‘The Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I Revisited (by Its Victims) as a Conspiracy’, in Barry Coward and Julian Swann (eds.), Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe: From the Waldensians to the French Revolution (Aldershot, 2004), pp. 87–111; and Peter Lake, ‘Anti-Puritanism: The Structure of a Prejudice’, in Kenneth Fincham and Peter Lake (eds.), Religious Politics in post-Reformation England: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Tyacke (Woodbridge, 2006), pp. 80–97.

49. Stevenson, Scottish Revolution, pp. 43–6; John Morrill, ‘The National Covenant in Its British Context’, in John Morrill (ed.), The Scottish National Covenant in Its British Context 1638-51 (Edinburgh, 1990), pp. 1–30, esp. pp. 7–11. These conflicts may have been anticipated well in advance by those planning the ceremonies: Dougal Shaw, ‘St Giles’ Church and Charles I’s Coronation Visit to Scotland’, HR, 77 (2004), 481–502.

50. Russell, Fall, pp. 37–42. For the importance of religious unity see Patrick Collinson, ‘William Shakespeare’s Religious Inheritance and Environment’, reprinted in Patrick Collinson, Elizabethan Essays (London, 1994), pp. 219–52; Conrad Russell, ‘Arguments for Religious Unity in England, 1530–1650’, reprinted in Conrad Russell, Unrevolutionary England 1603–1642 (London, 1990), pp. 179–204; and the summary in Braddick, State Formation, pp. 56–60.

51. For the dissemination of this image see Christopher Brown and Hans Vlieghe (eds.), Van Dyke, 1599-1641 (London, 1999), p. 304.

52. For influential views of Charles I see Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War (Oxford, 1990), ch. 8; Richard Cust, Charles I: A Political Life (Harlow, 2005); Richard Cust, ‘Charles I and Popularity’, in Thomas Cogswell, Richard Cust and Peter Lake (eds.), Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain: Essays in Honour of Conrad Russell (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 235-58; Richard Cust, ‘Charles I and Providence’, in Fincham and Lake (eds.), Religious Politics, pp. 193–208. An elegant statement of the standard view is Alan Cromartie, The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England, 1450–1642 (Cambridge, 2006), pp. 234–5. Charles now has a powerful advocate in Mark Kishlansky, ‘Charles I: A Case of Mistaken Identity?’, PP, 189 (2005), 41–80.

53. Allan I. Macinnes, Charles I and the Making of the Covenanting Movement, 1625–1641 (Edinburgh, 1991), chs. 3–4; Maurice Lee, Jr, The Road to Revolution: Scotland under Charles I, 1625–37 (Urbana, Ill., 1985), ch. 2. For crisp summaries see Macinnes, British Revolution, pp. 86–93; Keith M. Brown, Kingdom or Province? Scotland and the Regal Union, 1603–1715 (Basingstoke, 1992), pp. 101–3; Cromartie, Constitutionalist Revolution, p. 235. For a defence of Charles’s position see Kishlansky, ‘Charles I’, 71–2; Lee suggests, contrary to much conventional wisdom, that some of the heat had in fact gone out of the conflict quite