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49. W. G. Hoskins, ‘Harvest Fluctuations and English Economic History 1620-1759’, Agricultural History Review, 16 (1968), 15–31; Steve Hindle, ‘Dearth and the English Revolution: The Harvest Crisis of 1647–50 Revisited’, EcHR (forthcoming).
50. Braddick, ‘Excise Riot’, p. 611. For grain riots, popular politics and the response of the magistracy see John Walter, Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England (Manchester, 2006), intr., chs. 1–5; John Walter and Keith Wrightson, ‘Dearth and the Social Order in Early Modern England’, reprinted in Paul Slack (ed.), Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1984), pp. 108–28.
51. Braddick, ‘Excise Riot’, p. 611.
52. Michael J. Braddick, Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth-Century England: Local Administration and Response (Woordbridge, 1994), pp. 183–4. For the riot at Derby see above, pp. 422–3.
53. For the desire to return to normality see Gardiner, III, ch. 46; Underdown, Pride’s Purge, pp. 76–8; Braddick, ‘Excise Riot’, pp. 610–11. Attacks on committee government were also a dimension of ideological battles: Ann Hughes, Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620–1660 (Cambridge, 1987), ch. 6.
54. Braddick, ‘Excise Riot’, p. 612.
55. Ibid., p. 597.
56. Ibid., pp. 612–14, quotation at p. 614.
57. Gardiner, III, p. 218.
58. Bod. L, Ashmolean MS 185, fo. 211r.
59. Gardiner, III, pp. 216–18; Corish, ‘Ormond’, pp. 322–3.
60. Bennett, ‘War and Disorder’, esp. pp. 260–66; 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 p. 58; Gregg, Free-Born John, p. 161. For local studies of tensions between soldier and civilian see A. R. Warmington, Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire 1640–1672 (Woodbridge, 1997), pp. 81–91; Morrill, ‘Army Revolt of 1647’; Morrill, ‘Mutiny and Discontent’. A committee was established with powers to grant indemnity. Two thirds of its business in Gloucestershire was heard prior to 1650: Warmington, Gloucestershire, p. 89. For the committee See also John A. Shedd, ‘Thwarted Victors: Civil and Criminal Prosecution against Parliament’s Officials during the English Civil War and Commonwealth’, JBS, 41 (2002), 139–69.
61. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 140–48.
62. For a more detailed narrative see Joseph Frank, The Levellers: A History of the Writings of Three Seventeenth-Century Social Democrats: John Lilburne, Richard Overton, William Walwyn (Cambridge, Mass., 1955), pp. 77–124, although many of Frank’s judgements now seem anachronistic; Aylmer, The Levellers, pp. 16–22; Andrew Sharp (ed.), The English Levellers (Cambridge, 1998), intr. The Remonstrance is reprinted in ibid., pp. 33–53; the Large Petition is reprinted in Aylmer, The Levellers, pp. 75–81, quotations at pp. 76, 79. For Lilburne’s political thought see Rachel Foxley, ‘Citizenship and the English Nation in Leveller Thought, 1642–1653’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge (2001); Rachel Foxley, ‘John Lilburne and the Citizenship of “free-born Englishmen”’, HJ, 47 (2004), 849–74. For the resonance of the denial to the Lords of a negative voice See also Culpeper Letters, p. 145.
63. For the Levellers and petitioning See also Nigel Smith, Literature and Revolution in England, 1640–1660 (New Haven, Conn., 1994), pp. 138–40. This line of argument is developed interestingly in David Zaret, Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England (Princeton, NJ, 2000), esp. ch. 8.
64. Gardiner, III, pp. 254–7.
65. Aylmer, Levellers, p. 75.
66. Gentles, New Model Army, pp. 148–9; Morrill, ‘Army Revolt of 1647’; Morrill, ‘Mutiny and Discontent’; Mark Kishlansky, ‘Ideology and Politics in the Parliamentary Armies, 1645–9