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25. For the importance of a unified public front see Michael J. Braddick, ‘Administrative Performance: The Representation of Political Authority in Early Modern England’, in Michael J. Braddick and John Walter (eds.), Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 166–87.
26. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 374–5; Hughes, Warwickshire, p. 130; Cressy, England on Edge, pp. 53–5 (1640–41).
27. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 370–71.
28. Ibid., pp. 381–5; D. H. Pennington and I. A. Roots (eds.), The Committee at Stafford, 1643–1645: The Order Book of the Staffordshire County Committee, Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 4th ser., 1 (Manchester, 1957), pp. xx, 341.
29. Ibid., p. xx.
30. Fletcher, Outbreak, p. 380.
31. The classic statements of the importance of neutralism were Alan Everitt, ‘The Local Community and the Great Rebellion’, reprinted in Richardson (ed.), Local Aspects, pp. 15–36; and John Morrill’s. Both were more nuanced than is often claimed, although the hostage to fortune given by Everitt at p. 33 has been gleefully seized upon by critics. For Morrill’s original position and his later thoughts about the problems of analysing ‘neutralism’ see Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, pp. 54–8, 185–90, 197–204. For influential revisions of Morrill’s view see Fletcher, Outbreak, ch. 12; Ann Hughes, ‘Local History and the Origins of the Civil War’, in Richard Cust and Ann Hughes (eds.), Conflict in Early Stuart England: Studies in Religion and Politics 1603–1642 (Harlow, 1989), pp. 224–53; Hughes, Warwickshire, esp. pp. 144–5, 158–67; 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; and, for the war years, Ann Hughes, ‘The King, the Parliament and the Localities during the English Civil War’, JBS, 24 (1985), 236–63; Mark Stoyle, Loyalty and Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War (Exeter, 1994), ch. 6.
32. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 385–7; Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, pp. 55–6. Fletcher corrects the account of Cheshire’s ‘third force’ given in J. S. Morrill, Cheshire 1630–1660: County Government and Society during the English Revolution (Oxford, 1974), pp. 57–8.
33. Holmes, Lincolnshire, ch. 9, quotation at p. 156.
34. For the mingling of national awareness and local ambition in Worcestershire see Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 389–90. For the role of partisans in overriding these qualms see ibid., pp. 400–405. For Gloucestershire see A. R. Warmington, Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire 1640–1672 (Woodbridge, 1997), ch. 2.
35. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 390–91; Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, p. 56; Andrew Hopper, ‘Black Tom’: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (Manchester, 2007), pp. 12–20, 26–8.
36. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 99–100.
37. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 391–3.
38. Patrick McGrath, ‘Bristol and the Civil War’, reprinted in Richardson (ed.), Local Aspects, pp. 91–128, esp. pp. 91–101; See also David Harris Sacks, ‘Bristol’s “Wars of religion”’, in R. C. Richardson (ed.), Town and Countryside in the English Revolution (Manchester, 1992), pp. 100–129; Styles, ‘City of Worcester’, pp. 192–6; David Scott, ‘Politics and Government in York 1640–1662’, in Richardson (ed.), Town and Countryside, pp. 46–68, esp. pp. 49–50; Ian Roy, ‘The City of Oxford 1640–1660’, in Richardson (ed.), Town and Countryside, pp. 130–68, esp. p. 140.
39. Fletcher, Outbreak, pp. 393–400; for Coventry see Ann Hughes, ‘Coventry and the English Revolution’, in Richardson (ed.), Town and Countryside, pp. 69–99, esp. pp. 77–80. For the earlier emphasis on neutralism in the towns see Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, pp. 57–8; Roger Howell, ‘Newcastle and the Nation: The Seventeenth-Century Experience’, reprinted in Richardson (ed.), Local Aspects, pp. 309–29; Roger Howell, ‘Neutralism, Conservatism