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76. Anon., A discoverie of Six women preachers (London, 1641), title page.
77. See, among many others, Anon., A description of the Sect called the Familie of Love (London, 1641); Anon., The Adamites Sermon (London, 1641); Clive Holmes, Seventeenth-Century Lincolnshire (Lincoln, 1980), p. 199. For other examples of this connection see Cressy, England on Edge, pp. 241–5.
78. Anon., Calvers royall vision (London, 1648), Thomason date 28 October 1648; Anon., Thirteen strange prophecies (London, 1648), Thomason date 10 August 1648; Fourteene strange prophecies (London, 1648), Thomason date 10 August 1648; Fourteene strange prophecies (London, 1649), Thomason date 15 January 1649. For the maid of Worsop see Anon., The Wonderfull works of God (London, 1641), Fortescue date 21 November 1641.
79. Barbara Ritter Dailey, ‘The Visitation of Sarah Wight: Holy Carnival and the Revolution of the Saints in Civil War London’, Church History, 55 (1986), 438–55.
80. Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century England (Harmondsworth, 1991 edn), esp. pp. 151–66.
81. Keith Thomas, ‘Women and the Civil War Sects’, PP, 13 (1958), 42–62; Phyllis Mack, Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in Seventeenth-Century England (Berkeley, Calif., 1992); Elizabeth Clarke, ‘The Legacy of Mothers and Others: Women’s Theological Writing, 1640–60’, in Christopher Durston and Judith Maltby (eds.), Religion in Revolutionary England (Manchester, 2006), pp. 69–90.
82. See the special edition of Women’s Studies edited and introduced by Sharon Achinstein, Women’s Studies, 24:1-2 (1994); Trubowitz, ‘Female Preachers’; Wiseman, ‘“Adam, the Father of all Flesh”’. For petitioning see Higgins, ‘Reactions of Women’, in Manning (ed.), Politics, pp. 179–222, esp. pp. 209–12; Ann Hughes, ‘Gender and Politics in Leveller Literature’, in Susan D. Amussen and Mark A. Kishlansky (eds.), Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Early Modern Europe: Essays Presented to David Underdown (Manchester, 1995), pp. 162–88; Ann Marie McEntee, ‘“The [un]civill-sisterhood of Oranges and Lemons”: Female Petitioners and Demonstrators, 1642–53’, reprinted in Holstun (ed.), Pamphlet Wars, pp. 92–111; Nevitt, Women, quotation at p. 5. The achievements of many of the women mentioned here are celebrated in Stevie Davies, Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution: 1640–1660 (London, 1998).
83. Ian Gentles, ‘The New Model Officer Corps in 1647: A Collective Portrait’, Social History, 22 (1997), 127–44.
15. Remaking the Local Community
1. Cromwell had argued that ‘if the army be not put into another method, and the war more vigorously prosecuted, the people can bear the war no longer, and will enforce you to a dishonourable peace’: quoted in Ian Gentles, The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland 1645–1653 (Oxford, 1992), p. 6. See above, pp. 350–51.
2. Ronald Hutton, The Royalist War Effort 1642-1646, 2nd edn (London, 1999), p. 160.
3. Ibid., pp. 163–5; Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 61–6.
4. John Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces: The People of England and the Tragedies of War, 2nd edition (Harlow, 1999), p. 133; for the distinction between earlier and later movements see David Underdown, ‘The Chalk and the Cheese: Contrasts among the English Clubmen’, PP, 85 (1979), 25–48, at p. 28.
5. Hutton, Royalist War Effort, esp. pp. 160, 163–4; David Underdown, Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum (Newton Abbot, 1973), esp. pp. 87–92, 98–100.
6. Hutton, Royalist War Effort, p. 161; Simon Osborne, ‘The War, the People and the Absence of the Clubmen in the Midlands, 1642–1646’, reprinted in Peter Gaunt (ed.), The English Civil War (Oxford, 2000), pp. 226–48, esp. pp. 227–39. Nowhere