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8. Lindley, Popular Politics, pp. 10, 33; Pearl, London and the Outbreak, pp. 174–5.
9. Anthony Fletcher, The Outbreak of the English Civil War (London, 1981), pp. 1–2; David Underdown, Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum (Newton Abbot, 1973), p. 25; Cressy, England on Edge, pp. 40–41.
10. Hugh Trevor-Roper, ‘Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution’, reprinted in Hugh Trevor-Roper, Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change, and Other Essays (London, 1984), pp. 237–93; J. H. Elliott, ‘The Year of the Three Ambassadors’, in Hugh Lloyd-Jones, Valerie Pearl and Blair Worden (eds.), History and Imagination: Essays in Honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper (London, 1981), pp. 165–81.
11. Following the summary in Austin Woolrych, Britain in Revolution 1625–1660 (Oxford, 2002), pp. 157–8. For the debate about the extent of popular participation in parliamentary elections prior to 1640 see Derek Hirst, The Representative of the People: Voters and Voting in England under the Early Stuarts (Cambridge, 1975); Mark A. Kishlansky, Parliamentary Selection: Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1986); Richard Cust, ‘Politics and the Electorate in the 1620s’, in Cust and Hughes, Conflict in Early Stuart England, pp. 134–67. For some examples see Anthony Fletcher, A County Community in Peace and War: Sussex 1600–1660 (London, 1975), pp. 248–51; Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660 (Cambridge, 1987), pp. 119–30; A. R. Warmington, Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire 1640–1672 (Woodbridge, 1997), pp. 26–8. Counties further from London may have had fewer ideological contests: Anthony Fletcher, ‘National and Local Awareness in the County Communities’, in Howard Tomlinson (ed.), Before the English Civil War: Essays on Early Stuart Politics and Government (London, 1983), pp. 151–74, at p. 173. For the petitions See also Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. xxv–xxvii.
12. John Rushworth, Historical Collections: The Second Part (London, 1686 edition), p. 1338. For another full transcript see Sheffield University Library, Hartlib Papers, 55/5/1a-4b. The denunciation of monopolists is quoted at greater length in Michael J. Braddick, The Nerves of State: Taxation and Financing of the English State, 1558–1714 (Manchester, 1996), pp. 208–9. It is possible that Colepeper did not actually deliver the speech, merely depositing a script with Rushworth, but this seems unlikely: Conrad Russell, The Fall of the British Monarchies 1637–1642 (Oxford, 1991), p. 219n.
13. Woolrych, Britain in Revolution, p. 158.
14. Russell, Fall, pp. 214–21.
15. Ibid., pp. 221–2.
16. Brian Manning, The English People and the English Revolution (Harmondsworth, 1978), p. 14; See also EL 66705, Richard Kinge to Edward Parker, 12 December 1640. For the orchestration of this ‘pageant of power’, see John Adamson, The Noble Revolt: The Overthrow of Charles I (London, 2007), pp. 128–30.
17. Lindley, Popular Politics, p. 14.
18. Quoted in Manning, English People, p. 15; and Lindley, Popular Politics, p. 14. See also Russell, Fall, pp. 221–2.
19. Manning, English People, pp. 14–16. For Wallington see above, p. 109.
20. David L. Smith, The Stuart Parliaments 1603–1689 (London, 1999), pp. 71–5; Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 37–8; for the list of surviving select committees after the first purge see J. P. Kenyon, The Stuart Constitution 1603–1688: Documents and Commentary (Cambridge, 1966), pp. 216–17. For parliamentary procedure, and its predication on the importance of achieving consensus rather than decisions, see Mark A. Kishlansky, The Rise of the New Model Army (Cambridge, 1979), pp. 11–15, and on the Committee of the Whole House as a means to achieve that, Conrad Russell, Parliaments and English Politics 1621–1629 (Oxford, 1979), pp. 38–42.
21. James S. Hart, Justice upon Petition: The House of Lords and the Reformation of Justice 1621–1675 (London, 1991), pp. 3–4.
22. Russell, Fall, ch. 6, esp. pp. 164–205; David Stevenson, The Scottish Revolution