1. Derek Hirst, ‘Parliament, law and war in the 1620s’, Historical Journal, 23 (1980), p. 455.
2. For just such a view, see Austin Woolrych, ‘Shifting perspectives on the Great Rebellion’, History Today, 52 (2002), pp. 46–52.
3. Samuel Rawson Gardiner, History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the Civil War (London, 1883–84), vol. iv, p. 36.
4. Peter Lake, ‘Retrospective: Wentworth’s political world in revisionist and post-revisionist perspective’, in J.F. Merritt (ed.), The Political World of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, 1621–1641 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 252–83.
5. J.P. Sommerville, Royalists and Patriots: Politics and Ideology in England 1603–1640 (London: Longman, 1999), pp. 264–5.