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64. Paul Slack, ‘Books of Orders: The Making of English Social Policy, 1577–1631’, TRHS, 5th ser., 30 (1980), 1–22; B. W. Quintrell, ‘The Making of Charles I’s Book of Orders’, EHR, 95 (1980), 553–72; Sharpe, Personal Rule, pp. 456–87; Thomas G. Barnes, Somerset 1625–1640: A County’s Government during the ‘Personal Rule’ (Chicago, 1961), ch. 7. In Kent there was no conflict, but compliance was not complete: Peter Clark, English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution: Religion, Politics and Society in Kent, 1500–1640 (Hassocks, 1977), pp. 350–53; Henrik Langelüddecke, ‘Law and Order in Seventeenth-Century England: The Organization of Local Administration during the Personal Rule of Charles I’, Law and History Review, 15 (1997), 49–76; Henrik Langelüddecke, ‘“Patchy and spasmodic”?: The Response of Justices of the Peace to Charles I’s Book of Orders’, EHR, 113 (1998), 1231–48. For Manchester see Conrad Russell, The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637–1642 (Oxford, 1991), p. 6. For the 1640s see Anthony Fletcher, Reform in the Provinces: The Government of Stuart England (New Haven, Conn., 1986), esp. p. 187; Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660 (Cambridge, 1987), pp. 51–8. Steve Hindle argues that the extent of rates has been overstated and that magistrates intervening in the grain market during the 1640s were not so much self-activating as prompted from below: Hindle, On the Parish?, pp. 253–4; Steve Hindle, ‘Dearth and the English Revolution: The Harvest Crisis of 1647–50 Revisited’, EcHR (forthcoming).
65. Mark Brayshay, Philip Harrison and Brian Chalkley, ‘Knowledge, Nationhood and Governance: The Speed of the Royal Post in Early-Modern England’, Journal of Historical Geography, 24 (1998), 265–88.
66. David Cressy, England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640–1642 (Oxford, 2006), p. 311; Jacqueline Eales, Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War (Cambridge, 1990), pp. 116–18; for the density of communication see Michael Frearson, ‘Communications and the Continuity of Dissent in the Chiltern Hundreds during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries’, in Spufford (ed.), World of Rural Dissenters, pp. 273–87.
67. Figures for population and age profile derived from E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield, The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction (Cambridge, 1981), table A3.1.
68. For studies of the officeholding population of particular villages see Joan R. Kent, The English Village Constable, 1580–1642 (Oxford, 1986), ch. 4; Jan Pitman, ‘Tradition and Exclusion: Parochial Officeholding in Early Modern England, a Case Study from North Norfolk, 1580–1640’, Rural History, 15 (2004), 27–45. The point about influence over government is also made by Goldie, ‘Unacknowledged’.
69. Withington, Politics of Commonwealth, for numbers see table 2.1; Goldie, ‘Unacknowledged’; Pitman, ‘Tradition and Exclusion’, esp. pp. 38–40.
70. This was particularly true in the mid sixteenth century: Anthony Fletcher and Diarmaid MacCulloch, Tudor Rebellions, 5th edn (Harlow, 2004), pp. 12–13; Andrew McRae, God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500–1660 (Cambridge, 1996), esp. ch. 1. But the language persisted into the seventeenth century: John Walter, ‘Public Transcripts, Popular Agency and the Politics of Subsistence in Early Modern England’, reprinted in Walter, Crowds, pp. 196–222, esp. pp. 198–9.
71. For this approach see Quentin Skinner, ‘Language and Social Action’, reprinted in James Tully (ed.), Meaning and Context: Quentin Skinner and His Critics (Princeton, NJ, 1988), pp. 119–32.
72. John Walter and Keith Wrightson, ‘Dearth and the Social Order in Early Modern England’, reprinted in Paul Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 108–28; Walter, ‘Public Transcripts’; John Walter, ‘A “rising of the