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political thought see Johann Sommerville, Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England 1603–1640 (rev. edn London, 1999); Cromartie, Constitutionalist Revolution. For the articulation of a fundamental view of political liberty in the debates about the Petition of Right see Quentin Skinner, ‘Rethinking Political Liberty’, History Workshop Journal, 61:1 (2006), 156–70, esp. pp. 156, 158; Guy, ‘Origins of the Petition of Right’; Cogswell, ‘War and the Liberties of the Subject’.

31. For the rise of Arminianism see above, ch. 1, n. 43; and for a summary see Peter Marshall, Reformation England, 1480–1642 (London, 2003), esp. pp. 195–7. For Maynwaring and Sibthorpe see, Cust, Forced Loan, esp. pp. 62–5; Sommerville, Royalists and Patriots, esp. pp. 119–24; Vivienne Larminie, ‘Maynwaring, Roger (1589/90?-1653)’, ODNB, 37, pp. 612–4. For Sibthorpe See also John Fielding, ‘Sibthorpe, Robert (d. 1662)’, ODNB, 50, pp. 500–501; Cromartie, Constitutionalist Revolution, esp. pp. 244–5.

32. Russell, Parliaments and English Politics, pp. 404–12.

33. Marshall, Reformation England, pp. 135, 196; Cromartie, Constitutionalist Revolution, pp. 172–4.

34. The classic discussion is Patrick Collinson, The Birthpangs of Protestant England: Religious and Cultural Change in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Basingstoke, 1988), ch. 1.

35. Cogswell, Blessed Revolution; Cogswell, ‘England and the Spanish Match’.

36. The literature on this is very large. See, especially, Peter Lake, ‘Defining Puritanism – Again?’, in Francis J. Bremer (ed.), Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Faith (Boston, Mass., 1993), pp. 3–29. For the construction of Puritanism in public debate see, in particular, Peter Lake with Michael Questier, The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists and Players in post-Reformation England (New Haven, Conn., 2002); 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; Patrick Collinson, ‘The Theatre Constructs Puritanism’, in David L. Smith, Richard Strier and David Bevington (eds.), The Theatrical City: Culture, Theatre and Politics in London, 1576–1649 (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 157–69. Marshall, Reformation England, offers an excellent overview and further references: pp. 135–41.

37. Esther S. Cope and Willson H. Coates (eds.), Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640, Camden 4th ser., 19 (London, 1977), p. 147.

38. Cromartie, Constitutionalist Revolution, pp. 144–5; Marshall, Reformation England, pp. 194–5.

39. Tessa Watt, Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550–1640 (Cambridge, 1991), p. 11. The figure for literacy is derived from David Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge, 1980), although most authorities agree that this is a minimum figure, and possibly much lower than the real size of the reading population. For a judicious review see Adam Fox, Oral and Literate Culture in England 1500–1700 (Oxford, 2000), pp. 16–19.

40. Watt, Cheap Print, ch. 2; Angela McShane Jones, ‘“Rime and Reason”: The Political World of the English Broadside Ballad, 1640–1689’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Warwick (2004), esp. ch. 6.

41. Ian M. Green, ‘“For children in yeeres and children in understanding”: The Emergence of the English Catechism under Elizabeth and the Early Stuarts’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 37 (1986), 397–425, at p. 425; See also Ian Green, The Christian’s ABC: Catechisms and Catechizing in England c. 1530–1740 (Oxford, 1996); Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2000). For instructional material See also Tessa Watt, ‘Piety in the Pedlar’s Pack: Continuity and Change, 1578–1630’, in Margaret Spufford (ed.), The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520–1725 (Cambridge, 1995), pp. 235–72.

42. Watt, Cheap Print, chs. 4–8; work on chapbooks is much indebted to Margaret Spufford, Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction