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53. Hughes, Warwickshire, ch. 6, esp. pp. 238–54, John Bryan quoted at p. 219.
54. William Cliftlands, ‘The “Well-Affected” and the “Country”: Politics and Religion in English Provincial Society, c. 1640–1654’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Essex (1987), p. 261. For other examples see Braddick, Parliamentary Taxation, pp. 152–4.
55. A. R. Warmington, Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire 1640–1672 (Woodbridge, 1997), esp. pp. 71–4; Fletcher, Sussex, pp. 333–6. For an overview of the histories of these committees, which emphasizes ‘private battles’ and bureaucratic and jurisdictional rivalries, see D. H. Pennington, ‘The Accounts of the Kingdom, 1642-49’, in F. J. Fisher (ed.), Essays in the Economic and Social History of Tudor and Stuart England (Cambridge, 1961), pp. 182–203; for the politics of accounts at Westminster see Jason Peacey, ‘Politics, Accounts and Propaganda in the Long Parliament’, in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey (eds.), Parliament at Work: Parliamentary Committees, Political Power, and Public Access in Early Modern England (Woodbridge, 2002), pp. 59–78.
56. There is a huge literature on these issues. I have made this argument at greater length in Michael J. Braddick, State Formation in Early Modern England c.1550–1700 (Cambridge, 2000), esp. pts 2–3. For a complementary account see Steve Hindle, The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, c.1550–1640 (Basingstoke, 2000). Keith Wrightson, English Society 1580-1680 (London, 1982) is of seminal importance. See also Keith Wrightson and David Levine, Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling 1525–1700, rev. edn (Oxford, 1995); Keith Wrightson, ‘The Politics of the Parish in Early Modern England’, in Paul Griffiths, Adam Fox and Steve Hindle (eds.), The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England (Basingstoke, 1996), pp. 10–46, and many of the other essays in that collection. An unusually clear statement of the values of village governors is reprinted in Steve Hindle, ‘Hierarchy and Community in the Elizabethan Parish: The Swallowfield Articles of 1596’, HJ, 42 (1999), 835–51. The treatment of the poor reveals these calculations with particular clarity. On that see, in particular, Steve Hindle, On the Parish?: The Micro-Politics of Poor Relief in Rural England, c.1550–1750 (Oxford, 2004). For an important collection dealing with questions of community see Alexandra Shepard and Phil Withington (eds.), Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Place, Rhetoric (Manchester, 2000): for urban communities see Phil Withington, The Politics of Commonwealth: Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2005), esp. pt 3. For Puritan fellowship see John Spurr, English Puritanism 1603–1689 (Basingstoke, 1998), ch. 12. Beaver, Parish Communities, is particularly important in its emphasis on the role of ritual in the formation of parish communities, and offers a methodological complement to the works cited here.
57. TNA SP24/57 petition of Thomas Jenkins. Many of these disputes revolved around rights to tithe income: Ann Hughes, ‘Parliamentary Tyranny? Indemnity Proceedings and the Impact of the Civil War: A Case Study from Warwickshire’, Midland History, 11 (1986), 49–78, at pp. 61–2.
58. Morrill, Revolt in the Provinces, 2nd edn, pp. 156–9. See also Judith Maltby, ‘Suffering and Surviving: The Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Formation of “Anglicanism”, 1642–60’, in Christopher Durston and Judith Maltby (eds.), Religion in Revolutionary England (Manchester, 2006), pp. 158–80, and the works cited there.
59. Martin Ingram, ‘Puritans and the Church Courts’, in Christopher Durston and Jacqueline Eales (eds.), The Culture of English Puritanism, 1560–1700 (Basingstoke, 1996), pp. 58–91.
60. Alan Everitt’s position