1. Cf. Keith Wrightson, ‘The Enclosure of English Social History’, reprinted in Adrian Wilson (ed.), Rethinking Social History: English Society 1570–1920 and its Interpretation (Manchester, 1993), p. 66; Patrick Collinson, ‘De Republica Anglorum: Or History with the Politics Put Back’, reprinted in Collinson, Elizabethan Essays (1994), p. 14.
2. Anthony Fletcher, Reform in the Provinces: The Government of Stuart England (New Haven, Conn., 1986), pp. 116–42.
3. See Christopher Coleman and David Starkey (eds), Revolution Reassessed: Revisions in the History of Tudor Government and Administration (Oxford, 1986);
4. S.J. Gunn, Early Tudor Government, 1485–1558 (Basingstoke, 1995), pp. 1–22; and the essays which arose from the Royal Historical Society conference on ‘The Eltonian Legacy’. See TRHS 6th ser. 7 (1997), 177–336.
5. G.R. Elton, ‘Tudor Government: The Points of Contact’, reprinted in Elton, Studies in Tudor and Stuart Politics and Government, Volume III: Papers and Reviews 1973–1981 (Cambridge, 1983), pp. 3–57.