1. See, for example, the works of the royalist judge David Jenkins urging a restoration of Charles I by the army in 1647, which all included liberty of conscience as one of their demands. Jeremy Taylor’s Liberty of Prophesying, a rare tract in favour of liberty of conscience by an Anglican royalist, also dates from the royalist-Independent rapprochement of 1647: John Coffey. Jeremy Taylor’s Liberty of Prophesying, a rare tract in favour of liberty of conscience by an Anglican royalist, also dates from the royalist-Independent rapprochement of 1647: John Coffey, ‘The Toleration Controversy During the English Revolution’, in Christopher Durston and Judith Maltby (eds.), Religion in Revolutionary England (Manchester and New York, 2006), p. 61.
2. Henry Robinson, Liberty of Conscience (1644), p. 27, quoted in
3. Avihu Zakai, ‘Religious Toleration and its Enemies: The Independent Divines and the Issue of Toleration During the English Civil War’, Albion, 21 (1989), pp. 1–33, at p. 19.
4. Woodhouse, Puritanism and Liberty, pp. [84]–[6], [74]–[6]; D. B. Robertson, The Religious Foundations of Leveller Democracy (New York, 1951), p. 15 and chapter 2;
5. Edward Vallance, Revolutionary England and the National Covenant (Woodbridge, 2005), chapter 6, who argues that the notion of religious covenant came into the Agreements of the People via the army; see also Vallance’s contribution to this volume, chapter 1.