1. John Fletcher, The Maid’s Tragedy, 1.1.8–11, in The Dramatic Works of the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon, ed. F. Bowers, 10 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), 2.29.
2. Peter Lake and Steven Pincus (eds.), The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), p. 1.
3. See also I. Atherton and J. Sanders (eds.), The 1630s: Interdisciplinary Essays on Culture and Politics in the Caroline Era (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), p. 3, on the ‘contested, controversial, and fragile’ 1630s.
4. Glenn Burgess, Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart Constitution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996), p. 9 (esp. n. 26),
5. and Nicholas Henshall, The Myth of Absolutism: Change and Continuity in Early Modern European Monarchy (London: Longman, 1992), pp. 1–5.