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31. See, for example, Jason Peacey, ‘The Exploitation of Captured Correspondence and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the British Civil Wars’, Scottish Historical Review, 79 (2000), 213–32; Joad Raymond, Pamphlets and Pamphleteering in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 2003), p. 215. For the general phenomenon of unreliable news, and deliberate manipulation, see Jason Peacey, Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda during the English Civil Wars and Revolution (Aldershot, 2004), esp. ch. 7.

32. The Kings Cabinet opened, p. 17.

33. Quoted in Gardiner, II, p. 258. For opposition of this kind to the Uxbridge treaty see [John Vicars], The danger of treaties with popish-spirits (London, 1645), Thomason date 4 January 1645, authorship attributed by Thomason.

34. The Kings Cabinet opened, pp. 43–4.

35. Ibid., p. 44.

36. Ibid., pp. 46–7.

37. Ibid., sig. A3v; Anon., Some observations upon occasion of the publishing their majesties letters (Oxford, 1645), pp. 1–2.

38. Anon., A Key To the Kings cabinet (Oxford, 1645), pp. 3–4.

39. Ibid., pp. 11–13.

40. Ibid., p. 3.

41. See, for example, Bruno Ryves, Mercurius Rusticus (London, 1685 edn), pp. 3, 10, 11, 14, 16, 66, 74, 78, 79–80, 105–6, 136–7, 181. In some of these cases the purpose was to destroy legal evidences – not just a breach of privacy but a threat to property rights.

42. Raymond, ‘Popular Representations’, pp. 58–9.

43. Gardiner, II, pp. 257–8.

44. Carlton, Going to the Wars, p. 146.

45. Wanklyn and Jones, Military History, pp. 255–6; Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 251–2; Gardiner, II, pp. 254–5, 259–67.

46. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 61–3; Gardiner, II, pp. 185–6, 264–5. For the clubmen see above, pp. 286–7.

47. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 67–9.

48. Ibid., pp. 69–70; Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 254–8; Wanklyn and Jones, Military History, p. 259.

49. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, p. 257.

50. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 61–4, 70–72.

51. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 259–60; Gardiner, II, pp. 274–5.

52. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 251, 259–60; Stevenson, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, pp. 29–35.

53. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 72–6; Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 260–61; Gardiner, II, pp. 311–17. For the politics of the royalist command in these crucial months see Ian Roy, ‘George Digby, Royalist Intrigue and the Collapse of the Cause’, in Gentles, Morrill and Worden (eds.), Soldiers, Writers and Statesmen, pp. 68–90.

54. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 261–2; Stevenson, Revolution and Counter-Revolution, pp. 35–42; Gardiner, II, pp. 346–7, 356.

55. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 263–4; Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 76–8.

56. Quoted in Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 263–4.

57. Young and Holmes, English Civil War, pp. 264–7.

14. Winners and Losers

1. Richard Gough, The History of Myddle, ed. David Hey (Harmondsworth, 1981), pp. 71–5; Charles Carlton, Going to the Wars: The Experience of the English Civil Wars, 1638–1651 (London, 1992), p. 202. The population in 1563 was around 340 rising to 612 in 1676. There is no sign of rapid population growth before the 1630s, so that the population may well have been much less than 600: David Hey, An English Rural Community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts (Leicester, 1974), pp. 41, 42, 48. It has been authoritatively estimated that during the 1640s around 18 per cent of the population was between 15 and 24 and 42 per cent between 25 and 59: E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield, The Population History of England 1541–1871: A Reconstruction (Cambridge, 1989), p. 528. I have assumed a 1:1 sex ratio. Since the population of the village was growing during this period it may have been younger than average, but the total population is likely to be lower than the quoted figure.

2. Derived from the figures in Carlton, Going to the Wars, p. 204. These estimates are to be treated with caution of course, since contemporary estimates were inconsistent and often