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45. Gentles, New Model Army, p. 29; Paul Slack, Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England (London, 1988), p. 171. We would need, though, a very detailed study to test the hypothesis: the geographical distribution of soldiers and of shortage and so on. There is, clearly, room for a systematic study of the effects of the war on the labour market, as on other aspects of the domestic economy. Coates, London, provides a model. For some suggestive comments see Hughes, Warwickshire, pp. 270–71; for the dearth see Steve Hindle, ‘Dearth and the English Revolution: The Harvest Crisis of 1647–50 Revisited’, EcHR (forthcoming).
46. Gentles, New Model Army, table 2.1; population estimate derived from Wrigley and Schofield, Population History: 17 per cent of population between 15 and 24, 42 per cent between 25 and 59 (table A3.1, p. 528); total population 1646: 5,176,571 (table 7.8, p. 208). Assuming even sex ratios, the male population was 2,588,285, of whom 440,008 were 15–24 and 1,087,079 were 25–59.
47. Gentles, New Model Army, table 2.1. For the royalist figure see above, p. 391.
48. Gentles, New Model Army, table 2.1; Wrigley and Schofield, Population History, table A3.1, p. 528.
49. Gough, History of Myddle, p. 116.
50. John Walter and Roger Schofield, ‘Famine, Disease and Crisis Mortality in Early Modern Society’, in John Walter and Roger Schofield (eds.), Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society (Cambridge, 1989), pp. 1–73; John Walter, ‘The Social Economy of Dearth in Early Modern England’, reprinted in John Walter, Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (Manchester, 2006), pp. 124–180.
51. Bennett, Civil Wars Experienced, pp. 113, 117.
52. TNA, SP24/38 petition of Thomas Catrowe (and associated papers); SP24/57 petition of Joane Johnson.
53. Donagan, ‘Casualties’, pp. 124–5; Arni, Justice to the Maimed Soldier, esp. pp. 11-12, 56–7, 148–51, 153–4.
54. Braddick, Nerves of State, esp. pp. 34–9; James Scott Wheeler, The Making of a World Power: War and the Military Revolution in Seventeenth-Century England (Stroud, 1999).
55. Philip Styles, ‘The City of Worcester during the Civil Wars, 1640–60’, reprinted in Richardson (ed.), Local Aspects, pp. 187–238, at pp. 197–202; See also Roy, ‘Oxford’, pp. 147–9.
56. In Cheshire, in fact, the net flow of money was into the county: Morrill, Cheshire, pp. 94–100; Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 40–47; Edwards, Dealing in Death, p. 137. The related question of corruption and peculation in the armies has received little attention: for some examples see TNA SP24/57 petition of George Key (forged debentures), SP24/76 petition of John Smith (extortion).
57. TNA SP24/47 petition of farmers of Surrey; Hughes, Warwickshire, pp. 270–71, 281–2; Braddick, Parliamentary Taxation, pp. 151–4; Pennington, ‘War and the People’, pp. 130–31; Colin Phillips, ‘Landlord-Tenant Relationships 1642–1660’, reprinted in R. C. Richardson (ed.), Town and Countryside in the English Revolution (Manchester, 1992), pp. 224–50, at pp. 238–9.
58. Culpeper Letters, pp. 118–19.
59. Barry Coward, Oliver Cromwell (Harlow, 1991), pp. 11, 12, 48.
60. Phillips, ‘Landlord-Tenant Relationships’, pp. 239–47; P. G. Holiday, ‘Land Sales and Repurchases in Yorkshire after the Civil Wars, 1650–1670’, reprinted in Richardson, Local Aspects, pp. 287–308; H.J. Habakkuk, ‘Landowners and the Civil War’, EcHR, 2nd ser., 18 (1965), 130–51; Joan Thirsk, ‘The Sales of Royalist Land during the Interregnum’, EcHR, 2nd ser., 5 (1952), 188–207; Coate, Cornwall, pp. 225–37. For other local examples see Underdown, Somerset, pp. 126–7; Morrill, Cheshire, pp. 111–17; Fletcher, Sussex, pp. 328–33. Set in a wider context by Christopher O’Riordan, ‘Popular Exploitation