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4. M. Kishlansky, Parliamentary Selection, Social and Political Choice in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1986), p. 229.
5. S. Lambert, The Opening of the Long Parliament’, Historical Journal, 27 (1984), pp. 265–87.