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113. Anon., Strange Newes from Scotland ([London], 1647), Thomason date 24 September 1647, p. 3.
114. Ibid., pp. 4–5.
115. John Taylor, The World turn’d upside down (London, 1647), Thomason date 28 January, was a reissue of his Mad Fashions: Bernard Capp, The World of John Taylor the Water-Poet 1578–1653 (Oxford, 1994), p. 202.
116. Anon., A great fight in the church at Thaxted (London, 1647), Thomason date 25 September 1647.
18. The Army, the People and the Scots
1. For the appointment of the new agents see Austin Woolrych, Soldiers and Statesmen: The General Council of the Army and Its Debates 1647–1648 (Oxford, 1987), ch. 8; Austin Woolrych, ‘The Debates from the Perspective of the Army’, in Michael Mendle (ed.), The Putney Debates of 1647, The Army, the Levellers and the English State (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 53–78, at pp. 65–6; for the term ‘Leveller’, see Blair Worden, ‘The Levellers in History and Memory’, in ibid., pp. 256–82, appendix. Morrill and Baker question the closeness of the political alliance between Walwyn and the others prior to this date: John Morrill and Philip Baker, ‘The Case of the Armie Truly Restated’, in ibid., pp. 103–24, at pp. 119–20. This challenges the conventional view in most previous studies of the Levellers.
2. For the latter view see Morrill and Baker, ‘Case of the Armie’. For a measured overview see Rachel Foxley, ‘Citizenship and the English Nation in Leveller Thought, 1642–1653’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge (2001), ch. 5. Foxley argues that the army and the Levellers employed similar metaphors and tropes: that they were literally speaking the same language.
3. Woolrych, Soldiers and Statesmen, pp. 160–65, 174–8.
4. Ibid., pp. 174–8, quotation at p. 177; Richard Cust, Charles I: A Political Life (Harlow, 2005), pp. 431–3; David L. Smith, Constitutional Royalism and the Search for Settlement, c. 1640–1649 (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 132–6. For Scottish politics in these months see David Stevenson, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Scotland, 1644–1651 (London, 1977), pp. 88–93.
5. Woolrych, Soldiers and Statesmen, pp. 195–6; Gardiner, CD, pp. 326–7, quotation at p. 327.
6. Gardiner, III, pp. 366–9; Cust, Charles I, pp. 433–5.
7. For the reprinting of the Heads of Proposals see Woolrych, Soldiers and Statesmen, pp. 197–8. One edition of the Book of Declarations, acquired by Thomason on 2 October, reprints a Lords order of 27 September (LJ, ix, 450) giving sole benefit to the publishers. Another, presumably earlier, edition exists without this order on the title page. For an example of editing see Ian Gentles, The New Model Army in England, Ireland and Scotland, 1645–1653 (Oxford, 1992), p. 480 n. 67.
8. Gardiner, III, p. 365; LJ, ix, 452; A&O, I, pp. 1021–2 (30 Sept. 1647), quotation at p. 1021. The Large Petition had also called for an end to name-calling as a necessary prelude to settlement: G. E. Aylmer (ed.), The Levellers in the English Revolution (London, 1975), p. 78.
9. For the porousness of early modern parliaments see Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey (eds.), Parliament at Work: Parliamentary Committees, Political Power, and Public Access in Early Modern England (Woodbridge, 2002).
10. Woolrych, Soldiers and Statesmen, p. 195 and n. 17; White was present at the Putney debates on 29 October: C.H. Firth, The Clarke Papers, with a preface by Austin Woolrych (London, 1992 edn), p. 280.
11. For the attribution of authorship or co-ordination to Sexby see Morrill and Baker, ‘Case of the Armie’. Woolrych expressed support for the view in ‘The Debates’, at p. 66; he was more convinced of Wildman’s claims by the time he wrote Britain in Revolution 1625–1660 (Oxford, 2002), p. 383.
12. Woolrych, Soldiers and Statesmen, pp. 191–3, 203–6; Morrill and Baker, ‘Case of the Armie’, pp. 108–10.
13. Reprinted in Don M. Wolfe (ed.), Leveller Manifestoes of the Puritan Revolution (New York, 1944), pp. 196–222, quotations at pp. 199,