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was unaffected by the war of course, and the clubman areas of Worcester certainly felt the burdens of war. On this point See also C. D. Gilbert, ‘The Worcestershire Clubmen of 1645’, Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society, 3rd ser., 15 (1996), 211–18, at p. 212.

7. Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 160–61.

8. Underdown, Somerset, pp. 98–9.

9. Anthony Fletcher, A County Community in Peace and War: Sussex 1600–1660 (London, 1975), p. 272.

10. Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, pp. 133–4.

11. Underdown, Somerset, esp. pp. 105–10, 115–16; Underdown, ‘Chalk and the Cheese’, esp. pp. 32–40; Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 162–3. For other examples see Mark Stoyle, Loyalty and Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War (Exeter, 1994), ch. 6; Andrew Coleby, Central Government and the Localities: Hampshire 1649–1689 (Cambridge, 1987), pp. 7–9.

12. Underdown, Somerset, pp. 106–8; C. D. Gilbert, ‘Clubmen in South West Shropshire, 1644-5’, Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society, 68 (1993), 93–8, at pp. 95–6; Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 163–4.

13. Underdown, Somerset, pp. 98–9; Underdown, ‘Chalk and the Cheese’, p. 29.

14. For this suggestion see Hutton, Royalist War Effort, p. 165.

15. Underdown, Somerset, p. 107; Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 164–5, 171.

16. These manifestos reprinted in John Morrill, Revolt of the Provinces: Conservatives and Radicals in the English Civil War, 1630–1650, 1st edn (Harlow, 1980), pp. 196–7. Extracts are incorporated into the text of the second edition, but I have here referred readers to the fuller texts in the first edition.

17. Osborne, ‘Clubmen in the Midlands’.

18. They are substantially reprinted in Morrill, Revolt of the Provinces, 1st edn, pp. 197–200.

19. Gilbert, ‘Worcestershire Clubmen’, p. 211.

20. Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 162–3. For the royalist desire to use Grand Juries and quarter sessions, where possible, see Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, p. 78.

21. See Morrill, Revolt of the Provinces, 1st edn, pp. 199, 200.

22. Ibid., p. 197.

23. Gilbert, ‘Clubmen in South West Shropshire’, p. 94; See also Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, pp. 141, 148.

24. David Underdown, Revel, Riot and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603–1660 (Oxford, 1985), pp. 158–9; Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, p. 143; Morrill, Revolt of the Provinces, 1st edn, pp. 197, 200; Gilbert, ‘Worcestershire Clubmen’, p. 212; Hutton, Royalist War Effort, pp. 162–3. Gilbert places less emphasis on anti-Catholicism, suggesting that this was more anti-unruly soldier than anti-Catholic in nature: ‘Worcestershire Clubmen’, p. 213.

25. Reprinted in Morrill, Revolt of the Provinces, 1st edn, p. 198; See also Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, p. 141.

26. The demands of the Dorset and Wiltshire clubmen were published by order: The Desires and Resolutions of the club-men of the counties of Dorset and Wilts (London, 1645), Thomason date 12 July 1645. The Shropshire and Worcestershire manifestos were published in parliamentary newsbooks: Hutton, Royalist War Effort, p. 160; and the Wiltshire clubmen’s petition of July 1645 survives in LJ: reprinted in Morrill, Revolt of the Provinces, 1st edn, pp. 196–7. Humphrey Willis, the Somerset leader, took his campaign against the county committee the following year into print: Underdown, Somerset, pp. 133–5. The published version of a sermon preached at the siege of Basing House by William Beech included ‘a word of advice, full of love and affection’ to the clubmen of Hampshire: William Beech, More sulphure for Basing (London, 1645). For a remarkably forthright denunciation see A True relation of The Rising of the club-men in Sussex (London, 23 September 1645).

27. Buchanan Sharp, In Contempt of All Authority: Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England, 1586–1660 (Berkeley, Calif., 1980), pp. 224–5, 240; Underdown, Revel, Riot and Rebellion, pp. 160–62.

28. Quoted in Sharp, In Contempt, p. 248.

29. Hutton, Royalist War Effort,

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