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Revising the High Politics of Early Stuart England - The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621–1624. By Thomas Cogswell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xii + 349. $59.50. - Charles I and the Road to Personal Rule. By L. J. Reeve. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xi + 325. $59.50. - Sir Robert Heath, 1574–1649: Window on an Age. By Paul E. Kopperman. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, 56. London: Boydell & Brewer, 1989. Pp. xvii + 335. $67.00.

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Richard Cust
Richard Cust*
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University of Birmingham
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 324 - 333
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2 Stone, L., “The Revival of Narrative: Reflections on a New-Old History,” Past and Present, no. 85 (1979), pp. 20–21Google Scholar. It should be noted, however, that Stone is broadly in sympathy with this approach to political history. For a more negative assessment of the value of detailed political narrative, see Cannadine, D., “British History: Past, Present and Future,” Past and Present, no. 116 (1987), pp. 169–91Google Scholar.

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5 In the meantime, see his important discussion of the House of Commons and supply during the 1620s: Cogswell, T., “A Low Road to Extinction? Supply and Redress of Grievances in the Parliaments of the 1620s,” Historical Journal 33 (1990): 283–303CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 For the argument that the origins of “new counsels” are be seen earlier than this, during the period 1626–27, when Charles first showed his aversion to parliaments and resorted to the Forced Loan as a means of raising money, see Cust, R. P., The Forced Loan and English Politics, 1626–1628 (Oxford, 1987)Google Scholar.

7 Russell, , Parliaments and English Politics, pp. 49–53, 397–99Google Scholar.

8 This point is developed at greater length in Cust, The Farced Loan; Cust, R. P., “Charles I and a Draft Declaration for the 1628 Parliament,” Historical Research 151 (1990): 143–61CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Cust, R. P., “Charles I and Great Yarmouth: Anti-Puritanism and Urban Politics,” Historical Journal (in press)Google Scholar.

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12 Much of this paragraph is based on Cust, “Charles I and a Draft Declaration,” pp. 144–48.