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Provincial Squires and ‘Middling Sorts’ in the Great Rebellion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. S. Morrill
J. S. Morrill
Affiliation:
Selwyn College, Cambridge
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The Historical Journal , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 229 - 236
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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References

1 B. S. Manning, ‘Neutrals and neutralism in the English Civil War’, Oxford D.Phil, thesis 1957, introduction.

2 Everitt, A. M., The community of Kent and the Great Rebellion (Leicester, 1966)Google Scholar.

3 For an altogether more convincing and detailed view of the emergence of the parlia-mentarian movement in Suffolk see, Holmes, C., The Eastern Association in the English Civil War (Cambridge, 1974), particularly pp. 48–52, 63–8Google Scholar. This book appeared twelve months before the dated preface to Dr Manning's book and had existed as a widely read thesis: since 1969. David Underdown's book on Somerset, which also necessarily affects things Manning says about the west country, appeared in spring 1973 and my own book on Cheshire in spring 1974.

4 Cf. Morrill, J. S., The revolt of the provinces (1976), pp. 81–4, 125–6Google Scholar, and Morrill, J. S., The Cheshire Grand Jury 1625–59 (Leicester, 1976), pp. 33–45Google Scholar. which includes comment on grand jury activity elsewhere.

5 See, for example, the forthcoming Brandeis University Ph.D thesis on this subject by Ms Joyce Johnson.

6 I am grateful to Mr John Sutton, whose University of Lancaster Ph.D. on allegiance in Staffordshire is nearing completion, for confirming my own impressions, for drawing my attention to additional references, and for showing me the tables and maps which conclusively demonstrate the above pattern.

7 Davies, C. S. L., ‘Peasant Revolt in France and England: A Comparison’, Agricultural History Review, xxi (1973), pp. 123–134Google Scholar.

8 In Past and Present, no. 50 (1971)Google Scholar.

9 In Past and Present, no. 71 (1976)Google Scholar.

10 Pearl, V., London and the Outbreak of the Puritan Revolution (Oxford, 1961)Google Scholar, passim.

11 Cf. Morrill, , Revolt of the Provinces, pp. 98–111, 196–200Google Scholar.