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God's Fury, England's Fire_ A New History of the English Civil Wars - Michael J. Braddick [406]

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‘Milton, John (1608–1674)’, ODNB, 38, pp. 333–49; David Norbrook, Writing the English Republic: Poetry, Rhetoric and Politics, 1627–1660 (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 109–18; Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 2003), pp. 263–75.

46. Norbrook, Writing the English Republic, pp. 118–39; Campbell, ‘Milton’, p. 339.

47. Gardiner, II, pp. 108–9.

48. For his characterization of Milton on divorce see Gardiner, II, p. 72. William Prynne, Truth triumphing over falshood, antiquity over novelty. Or, The first part of a just and seasonable vindication of the undoubted ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, right, legislative, coercive power of Christian emperors, kings, magistrates, parliaments, in all matters of religion, church-government, discipline, ceremonies, manners: summoning of, presiding, moderating in councells, synods; and ratifying their canons, determinations, decrees: as likewise of lay-mens right both to sit and vote in councells;… In refutation of Mr. Iohn Goodwins Innocencies Triumph: my deare brother Burtons Vindication of churches, commonly called Independent: and of all anti-monarchicall, anti-Parliamentall, anti-synodicall, and anarchicall paradoxes of papists, prelates, Anabaptists, Arminians, Socinians, Brownists, or Independents: whose old and new objections to the contrary, are here fully answered (London, 1645); John Lilburne, A copie of a letter, written by John Lilburne Leut. Collonell. To Mr. William Prinne Esq. (Upon the coming out of his last booke, intituled Truth triumphing over falshood, antiquity over novelty) in which he laies down five propositions, which he desires to discusse with the said Mr. Prinne (London, 1645).

49. Culpeper Letters, pp. 137–50, quotations at pp. 144–5.

50. See above, pp. 10–12.

51. The standard work on these congregations is Murray Tolmie, The Triumph of the Saints: The Separate Churches of London 1616–1649 (Cambridge, 1977). There is much useful additional material in Keith Lindley, Popular Politics and Religion in Civil War London (Aldershot, 1997), pp. 281–303. The classic evocation of the atmosphere of religious experimentation in this period is Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution (Harmondsworth, 1975).

52. Tolmie, Triumph, pp. 111–16.

53. Ibid., p. 71.

54. Clive Holmes, Seventeenth-Century Lincolnshire (Lincoln, 1980), pp. 41–6, 198–9; Mary Coate, Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 1642–1660: A Social and Political Study (Oxford, 1933), ch. 15; David Underdown, Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603–1660 (Oxford, 1985), p. 247 (Baptists in the West Country from 1645 onwards); for Baptists see Mark Bell, ‘Freedom to Form: The Development of Baptist Movements during the English Revolution’, in Durston and Maltby (eds.), Religion, pp. 181–201; for a county study see Jacqueline Eales, ‘“So many sects and schisms”: Religious Diversity in Revolutionary Kent, 1640–60’, in ibid., pp. 226–48.

55. For transgressions of baptismal rites See also David Cressy, Agnes Bowker’s Cat: Travesties and Transgressions in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford, 2000), ch. 11; for soldiers in cathedrals see Julie Spraggon, Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War (Woodbridge, 2003), pp. 203–12.

56. John T. Evans, Seventeenth-Century Norwich: Politics, Religion and Government, 1620–1690 (Oxford, 1979), pp. 131, 151–5; Holmes, Eastern Association, p. 204, for Baillie and Cromwell; Hughes, Gangraena, pp. 42–3, for Edwards and Baillie.

57. Holmes, Eastern Association, p. 195; Gardiner, II, pp. 25–6, 35–41.

58. Holmes, Eastern Association, pp. 195–205. See also Gardiner, II, ch. 20.

59. David L. Smith, Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640–1649 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 117–20, quotation at p. 120.

60. Quoted from Gardiner, II, pp. 114–15.

61. For Glamorgan and Henrietta Maria see ibid., pp. 164–73.

62. Cust, Charles I, pp. 393–6; James Daly, ‘The Implications of Royalist Politics 1642–1646’, HJ, 27 (1984), 745–55, at p. 749. Hutton

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