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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
page xiii note 1 See Appendix D. There is only one bill recorded in the Commons Journal which Aston fails to mention.
page xiv note 1 Earwaker, J. P., East Cheshire (2 vols., London, 1877), II, pp. 10, 160, 317, 448–49Google Scholar; Ormerod, G., History of Cheshire, revised by G. Helsby (3 vols., London, 1882), I, pp. 532–35Google Scholar; DNB; VCHChes., II, pp. 42, 119Google Scholar; AO; Wood, Anthony, Athenae Oxonienses, revised by Philip Bliss (5 vols., London, 1815), II, pp. 184–85Google Scholar; CSPD, 1628–29, pp. 222, 225Google Scholar. The painting is in the Manchester Art Gallery. Baker, C. H. Collins, ‘John Souch of Chester’, Connoisseur (1928), pp. 131–32Google Scholar. I am grateful to Mrs Dorothy Owen for this reference.
page xiv note 2 I am grateful to Mr Peter Salt for bringing to my attention a warrant in the Lord Chamberlain's warrant books describing Aston as ‘a Gentleman Extraordinary of the Privy Chamber' (P.R.O. LC5/134, p. 170). John Aston (d. 1650) was active in royal service (e.g. CSPD, 1629–31, p. 161Google Scholar) and his adventures in the Bishops’ War are described in his journal published in ‘North Country Diaries’, Surtees Society (1910).Google Scholar
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page xv note 1 Morrill, , Cheshire, pp.37, 45–56Google Scholar; Morrill, , Provinces, pp.48–49, 150–52Google Scholar; Fletcher, Anthony, The Outbreak of the English Civil War (London, 1981), pp. 91–124, 283–91, passimGoogle Scholar; Maltby, Judith, ‘Approaches to the Popular Support for the Book of Common Prayer and the Established Church in late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England’ (Cambridge Ph.D thesis in progress).Google Scholar
page xv note 2 Sir Thomas Aston's published works on this subject are: A Remonstrance Against Presbytery (n.p., 1641); A Collection of Sundry Petitions (n.p., 1642).
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