1. Edward Hyde, ZZZSelections from the History of the Rebellion and the Life of Himself, ed. G. Huehns and Hugh Trevor-Roper (Oxford: Oxford University, 1978), p. 83.
2. Malcolm Smuts, ‘Force, Love and Authority in Caroline Political Culture’, in The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, ed. Ian Atherton and Julie Sanders (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), pp. 28–49, p. 33.
3. Philip Finkelpearl, John Marston of the Middle Temple: An Elizabethan Dramatist in his Social Setting (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969), pp. 1–5, describes the City lawyers as ‘the largest single group of literate and cultured men in London’, possessing a distinctive masquing culture which did, at key points, express disquiet with official policy. See also Chapter 4 (p. 116).
4. They also mark Henrietta Maria’s political interventions: see Julie Sanders, ‘Caroline Salon Culture and Female Agency: The Countess of Carlisle, Henrietta Maria, and Public Theatre’, Theatre Journal, 52 (2000), 449–64,
5. and Karen Britland, ‘“All emulation cease, and jars”: Political Possibilities in Chloridia, Queen Henrietta Maria’s Masque of 1631’, Ben Jonson Journal, 9 (2000), 1–22.