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31. Certaine informations (24 April-1 May 1643), p. 119; Spraggon, Puritan Iconoclasm, pp. 83–5; for Harley see Jacqueline Eales, Puritans and Roundheads: The Harleys of Brampton Bryan and the Outbreak of the English Civil War (Cambridge, 1990), esp. pp. 56–60, 108–16.
32. For the administrative history see Holmes, Suffolk Committees, pp. 9–12. See also Ian Green, ‘The Persecution of “Scandalous” and “Malignant” Parish Clergy during the English Civil War’, EHR, 94 (1979), 507–31, esp. pp. 512–15.
33. Holmes, Suffolk Committees, pp. 9–12; Green, ‘Persecution of “Scandalous” and “Malignant” Parish Clergy’, esp. pp. 512–16; for an earlier example see David Cressy, England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution 1640–1642 (Oxford, 2006), pp. 259–60.
34. Holmes, Suffolk Committees, pp. 9–10; CJ, ii, p. 54.
35. Holmes, Suffolk Committees, pp. 9–10, 115–19, quotation at p. 118.
36. Certaine informations (24 April-1 May 1643), p. 118.
37. David Cressy, ‘Book Burning in Tudor and Stuart England’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 36 (2005), 359–74, esp. pp. 361–8; Cyndia Clegg, ‘Burning Books as Propaganda in Jacobean England’, in Andrew Hadfield (ed.), Literature and Censorship in Renaissance England (Basingstoke, 2001), pp. 165–86.
38. Cressy, ‘Book Burning’, pp. 369–70; for Prynne and Histrio-Mastix see William Lamont, ‘Prynne, William (1600–1669)’, ODNB, 45, pp. 489–94.
39. Quoted in Cressy, ‘Book Burning’, pp. 370–71.I am also very grateful to Ariel Hessayon for allowing me to see his forthcoming paper ‘Incendiary Texts: Radicalism and Book Burning in England, c. 1640–c. 1660’.
40. Cressy, ‘Book Burning’, p. 373. For Dering, the press and the wider public See also Jason Peacey, ‘Popularity and the Politician: An MP and His Public, 1640–1644’ (forthcoming).
41. Certaine informations (24 April-1 May 1643), p. 118.
42. For the Somerset controversy see Thomas G. Barnes, ‘County Politics and a Puritan Cause Célèbre: Somerset Church Ales, 1633’, TRHS, 5th ser., 9 (1959), 103–22. For the Book of Sports and its local reception see Ronald Hutton, The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400–1700 (Oxford, 1994), pp. 196–8; Kevin Sharpe, The Personal Rule of Charles I (New Haven, Conn., 1992), pp. 353–9; Julian Davies, The Caroline Captivity of the English Church (Oxford, 1992), ch. 5.
43. Hutton, Merry England, pp. 200–201, 205–6; A&O, I, pp. 81–3, quotations at pp. 81, 82.
44. Cressy, Agnes Bowker’s Cat, p. 249. For examples of maypoles and anti-Puritanism see David Underdown, Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603–1660 (Oxford, 1985), esp. pp. 177, 269, 274–5; and see above, p. 204.
45. For this range of responses see Cressy, Agnes Bowker’s Cat, p. 247. For concern about iconoclasm and disorder see John Walter, ‘“Abolishing superstition with sedition”? The Politics of Popular Iconoclasm in England 1640–1642’, PP, 183 (2004), 79–123.
46. See above, pp. 312–13.
47. William Cliftlands, ‘The “Well-Affected” and the “Country”: Politics and Religion in English Provincial Society, c. 1640–1654’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Essex (1987), esp. chs. 2, 4.
48. Joad Raymond, The Invention of the Newspaper: English Newsbooks 1641–1649 (Oxford, 1996), pp. 26–7.
49. The text has a relatively complicated history. Thomason collected several numbers as a serial up to December 1643. The ninth edition in Thomason’s collection is numbered 18, suggesting a continuous weekly production, although it was interrupted in the autumn. These separate issues were included in an omnibus published in 1646, along with other material. This was largely reprinted in 1685 as a warning to a new generation. The 1685 edition is reset, with a new pagination, and seems to have introduced some errors. Another edition published as Angliae Ruina in 1648 has a completely new preface and includes some material not in the 1646 and 1685 editions, excluding some of