1. T.C. Pease, The Leveller Movement: A Study in the History and Political Theory of the English Great Civil War (Washington, D.C., 1916), p. 134;
2. H. N. Brailsford, The Levellers and the English Revolution, ed. Christopher Hill (1961; 2nd edn, Nottingham, 1983), p. 321.
3. Brian Manning, The English People and the English Revolution (1976; 2nd edn, 1991), p. 410 and chapter 10 more generally.
4. On the character of the state, see especially Michael J. Braddick, State Formation in Early Modern England, c.1550–1700 (Cambridge, 2000);
5. Mark Goldie, ‘“The Unacknowledged Republic”: Office-holding in Early Modern England’, in Tim Harris (ed.), The Politics of the Excluded, c.1500–1850 (Basingstoke, 2001), pp. 153–94;