1. For Bruen, see William Hinde, A Faithful Remonstrance of the Holy Life and Happy Death of John Bruen of Bruen Stapleford in the County of Chester, Esquire (1641 [Wing 2063]); R.C. Richardson, Puritanism in North-west England: A Regional Study of the Diocese of Chester to 1642 (Manchester, 1972), pp. 122–4;
2. Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559–1625 (Oxford, 1982), pp. 167, 169; and BL MS Additional 70001, fol. 1. For Ratcliffe, see Richardson, Puritanism in North-west England, pp. 133, 141;
3. and D.M. Hirst, The Representatives of the People? Voters and Voting in Earlty Stuart England (Cambridge, 1975), p. 198.
4. PRO CHES 21/2, fols. 96, 100, 100v, 105. Cf. Peter Lake and Michael Questier, ‘Prisons, Priests and People’, in Nicholas Tyacke (ed.), England’s Long Reformation, 1500–1800 (1997), pp. 195–233.
5. For Jane Ratcliffe, see Peter Lake, ‘Feminine Piety and Personal Potency: The “Emancipation” of Mrs Jane Ratcliffe’, The Seventeenth Century 1 (1986), 143–65;