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5. John Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces: The People of England and the Tragedies of War 1630–1648, 2nd edn (Harlow, 1999), pp. 60–61.
6. For the Kentish petition see above, p. 205; for the role of assizes and quarter sessions see Anthony Fletcher, The Outbreak of the English Civil War (London, 1981), esp. p. 194. It was frustration at the conduct of a Grand Jury which seems to have prompted the Essex Prayer Book petition: John Walter, ‘Confessional Politics in pre-Civil War Essex: Prayer Books, Profanations, and Petitions’, HJ, 44 (2001), 677–701, at pp. 691–9.
7. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 298–300; for the correlations with subsequent success of the rival militia authorities compare maps 6, 7, 8.
8. Ibid., p. 300.
9. The Declaration and Protestation agreed upon by the Grand Jury at the Assizes held for the County of Worcester (York, 1642); this was the outcome of successful political manoeuvring: Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 10–11; Fletcher, Outbreak, p. 358; Ian Roy, ‘The Royalist Army in the First Civil War’, unpublished D.Phil. thesis, Oxford (1963), pp. 18–22.
10. The Declaration and Protestation of divers the Knights, Gentry and Freeholders (London, 1642); Declaration and Protestation agreed upon by the Grand Jury. As elsewhere, the unanimity of this Lincolnshire declaration was the result of successful mobilization by one party, rather than representing the authentic ‘voice of the county’: see Clive Holmes, Seventeenth-Century Lincolnshire (Lincoln, 1980), ch. 9, esp. pp. 145–8.
11. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 300, 356, 359, and for other examples pp. 306, 362–3, 389, 395; Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 10–11; John Walter, Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution: The Colchester Plunderers (Cambridge 1999), pp. 129–34; for Worcester See also Roy, ‘Royalist Army’, pp. 18–22; for the City of Worcester see Philip Styles, ‘The City of Worcester during the Civil Wars, 1640–60’, reprinted in R. C. Richardson (ed.), The English Civil Wars: Local Aspects (Stroud, 1997), pp. 187–238, at pp. 192–3.
12. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 347–56.
13. Ibid., p. 350.
14. Ibid., pp. 356–68; Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660 (Cambridge, 1987), pp. 136–42.
15. Bernard Capp, ‘Naval Operations’, pp. 160–62.
16. Alan Everitt, The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion (Leicester, 1966), pp. 111–16.
17. Peter Young and Richard Holmes, The English Civil War: A Military History of the Three Civil Wars 1642–1651 (Ware, 2000), pp. 84–8; David Underdown, Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum (Newton Abbot, 1973), pp. 31–8.
18. Malcolm Wanklyn and Frank Jones, A Military History of the English Civil War, 1642–1646: Strategy and Tactics (Harlow, 2005), pp. 42–3. For Portsmouth see John Webb, ‘The Siege of Portsmouth in the Civil War’, reprinted in Richardson (ed.), Local Aspects, pp. 63–90.
19. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 88–91. Cornwall was later a stronghold of royalism but the gentry were apparently united in their opposition to Laudianism and the abuse of the prerogative until the trial of Strafford, and were deeply divided by the Militia Ordinance and the Commission of Array: Mary Coate, Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 1642–1660: A Social and Political Study (Oxford, 1933), ch. 4.
20. HEH, EL 7762, Relation of some passages at Manchester 15 July 1642. For the pre-history, and rival versions, of these events see Ernest Broxap, The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642–51), 2nd edn (Manchester, 1973), pp. 12–19; Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 360–61, 392–3.
21. HEH, EL 7762.
22. Ibid.
23. Quoted in Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, pp. 52–3.
24. Charles Carlton, Going to the Wars: The Experience of the English Civil Wars 1638–1651 (London, 1992), pp.