1. Journal of the House of Lords (hereafterLJ), VIII, 12 January 1646, Nottinghamshire Petition.
2. Nottinghamshire Archives (hereafter NA), Warrant to Sir Richard Willis, 22 August 1645, DC/NW D.48·74/30.
3. S. B. Jennings,‘These Uncertaine Tymes’: Newark and the Civilian Experience of the Civil Wars, 1640–1660(Nottinghamshire County Council, 2009), ch. 2.
4. For a fuller discussion of the siege, see A. C. Wood,Nottinghamshire in the Civil War(East Ardsley, 1971), 94–121.
5. D. Scott, ‘The Northern Gentlemen, The Parliamentarian Independents, and Anglo-Scottish Relations in the Long Parliament’,Hist. Jnl, 42·2 (1999), 347–75.