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43. Matthias Adam Shaaber, Some Forerunners of the Newspaper in England, 1476–1622 (Philadelphia, Penn., 1929), esp. chs. 1, 4.

44. Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2001 edn); Lake with Questier, Antichrist’s Lewd Hat, chs. 1-5; Peter Lake, ‘Popular Form, Puritan Content’: Two Puritan Appropriations of the Murder Pamphlet from mid-Seventeenth-Century London’, in Anthony Fletcher and Peter Roberts (eds.), Religion, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain: Essays in Honour of Patrick Collinson (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 313–34.

45. For public awareness of politics more generally see Richard Cust, ‘News and Politics in Early Seventeenth-Century England’, reprinted in Richard Cust and Ann Hughes (eds.), The English Civil War (London, 1997), pp. 233–60; Cogswell, ‘Politics of Propaganda’; Thomas Cogswell, ‘Underground Verse and the Transformation of Early Stuart Political Culture’, in Susan D. Amussen and Mark A. Kishlansky (eds.), Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern England: Essays Presented to David Underdown (Manchester, 1995), pp. 277–300; Thomas Cogswell, ‘“Published by Authoritie”: Newsbooks and the Duke of Buckingham’s Expedition to the Île de Ré’, HLQ, 67:1 (2004), 1–25; Bellany, ‘“Rayling Rymes and Vaunting Verse”’; Alastair Bellany, ‘Libels in Action: Ritual, Subversion and the English Literary Underground, 1603–42’, in Tim Harris (ed.), The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500–1850 (Basingstoke, 2001), pp. 99–124; Fox, Oral and Literate, esp. chs. 6–7 and the works cited there.

46. Fox, Oral and Literate, esp. chs. 6–7 and the works cited there.

47. For an overview of court politics see Kevin Sharpe, ‘The Image of Virtue: The Court and Household of Charles I 1625–1642’, in David Starkey and D. A. L. Morgan, John Murphy, Pam Wright, Neil Cuddy and Kevin Sharpe (eds.), The English Court: From the Wars of the Roses to the Civil War (London, 1987), pp. 226–60. For the politics of Buckingham’s bridging of two reigns see Russell, Parliaments and English Politics, esp. pp. 107–8, 145–8, 202–3; Cust, Forced Loan, esp. pp. 27–35. For the rumours about the poisoning of James I, which persisted into the 1640s, see Cogswell, ‘John Felton’, pp. 366–8; Alastair Bellany, ‘The Murder of James I: Mutations and Meanings of a Political Myth, c. 1625–1660’ (unpublished paper).

48. Peter Lake and Steve Pincus, ‘Rethinking the Public Sphere in Early Modern England’, JBS, 45 (2006), 270–92; Peter Lake, ‘Anti-Puritanism’; Peter Lake, ‘“The monarchical republic of Elizabeth I” Revisited (by Its Victims) as a Conspiracy’, in Coward and Swann (eds.), Conspiracies, pp. 87–111. For a similar analysis see Richard Cust, ‘“Patriots” and “popular spirits”: Narratives of Conflict in Early Stuart Politics’, in Nicholas Tyacke (ed.), The English Revolution c. 1590-1720 (Manchester, 2007/8).

49. CSPD, 1628–9, pp. 343, 363.

50. Ibid., p. 274. See also ibid., p. 359.

51. Cogswell, ‘Politics of Propaganda’.

52. Cromartie, Constitutionalist Revolution, pp. 1–3, ch. 8.

53. See, in particular, Blair Worden, ‘Classical Republicanism and the Puritan Revolution’, in Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Valerie Pearl and Blair Worden (eds.), History and Imagination: Essays in Honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper (London, 1981), pp. 182–200; Markku Peltonen, Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570–1640 (Cambridge, 1995); Markku Peltonen, ‘Citizenship and Republicanism in Elizabethan England’, in Martin van Gelderen and Quentin Skinner (eds.), Republicanism: A Shared European Heritage, vol. 1: Republicanism and Constitutionalism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2002), pp. 85–106. For the practical importance of these ideas see Mark Goldie, ‘The Unacknowledged Republic: Officeholding in Early Modern England’, in Harris (ed.), Politics of the Excluded, pp. 153–94; Richard Cust, ‘The “public man” in Late Tudor and Early Stuart England’, in Peter Lake and Steven Pincus (eds.), The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England