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49. Fletcher, Outbreak, esp. p. 206. For the disturbances in Essex see above, pp. 230–31; Lindley, ‘Impact’, pp. 157–9.
50. Caroline Hibbard, Charles I and the Popish Plot (Chapel Hill, NC, 1983), pp. 219–20; Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 59–60; Diane Purkiss, The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlemen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in the Birth of Modern Britain (New York, 2006), pp. 137–9; Anon., Arthur Browne, A Seminary Priest, His Confession (London, 1642). For another cause célèbre see the revelations of John Browne: The confession of John Brovvne a Iesuite (London, 1641). For the King’s attempt to save the lives of Catholic priests see Russell, Fall, pp. 258–62.
51. Fletcher, Outbreak, ch. 6. For the complex connections between these campaigns and national political developments See also John Walter, ‘Confessional Politics in pre-Civil War Essex: Prayer Books, Profanations, and Petitions’, HJ, 44 (2001), pp. 677–701, esp. pp. 699–701. The Somerset petition from these months, for example, called for the preservation of the Prayer Book and the liberties of Parliament, which was hardly a non-partisan set of priorities: David Underdown, Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum (Newton Abbot, 1973), pp. 26–9
52. David Zaret, ‘Petitions and the “Invention” of Public Opinion in the English Revolution’, American Journal of Sociology, 101 (1996), 1497–1555; David Zaret, Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England (Princeton, NJ, 2000).
53. David Cressy, ‘The Protestation Protested, 1641 and 1642’, HJ, 45 (2002), pp. 251–79, esp. pp. 266–77. For the politics of the Protestation in Essex see Walter, ‘Confessional Politics’, and Walter, Understanding Popular Violence, ch. 8. For mental reservation see Edward Vallance, Revolutionary England and the National Covenant: State Oaths, Protestantism and the Political Nation, 1553–1682 (Woodbridge, 2005), esp. pp. 103–7; David Martin Jones, Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth Century England: The Political Significance of Oaths and Engagements (Woodbridge, 1999). For the administration and importance of the returns as population listings see Anne Whiteman, ‘The Protestation Returns of 1641–1642. Pt. 1: The General Organisation’, Local Population Studies, 55 (1995), 14–26; Anne Whiteman and Vivian Russell, ‘The Protestation Returns, 1641–1642. Pt. 2: Partial Census or Snapshot? – Some Evidence from Penwith Hundred, Cornwall’, Local Population Studies, 56 (1996), 17–29; J. S. W. Gibson and A. Dell (eds.), The Protestation Returns 1641–2 and Other Contemporary Listings (Birmingham, 1995); David Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order: Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge, 1980), passim.
54. Shagan, ‘Constructing Discord’, esp. pp. 17–23.
55. For the vote see above, pp. 185–6; and for its significance see Margaret Aston, ‘Puritans and Iconoclasm, 1560–1660’, in Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales (eds.), The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560–1700 (Basingstoke, 1996), pp. 92–121, at pp. 114–17.
56. Anon., Wonderfull Nevves: Or, a True Relation of a Churchwarden in the Towne of Tosceter (London, 1642), quotations at sig. A2r, A2v, A3r. For the Lords order see above, pp. 146, 176. Wallington also noted judgements on those who destroyed good books, although his sense of what was a good book clearly differed: hence the importance and inscrutability of God’s judgements: BL, Sloane MS, fo. 73r.
57. See, in this context, Edward Bowles as discussed in Philip Withington, The Politics of Commonwealth: Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005), pp. 234–7.
58. John Locke, A strange And Lamentable accident that happened lately at Mears Ashby (London, 1642). Thomason date August [?] 1642. This pamphlet is also discussed in David Cressy, ‘Lamentable, Strange, and Wonderful: Headless Monsters in the English Revolution’, in Laura Lunger Knoppers and Joan B. Landes (eds.), Monstrous Bodies/Political