1. See Q. Skinner, ‘Milton and liberty’, London Review of Books, 30.10 (22 May 2008), 16–18; idem, ‘John Milton and the politics of slavery’, Prose Studies 23 (2000), 1–22.
2. See the important, but under-recognised, article by J. G. A. Pocock, ‘Religious freedom and the desacralisation of politics: From the English civil wars to the Virginia statute’, in The Virginia Statute for religious freedom. Its evolution and consequences in American history, ed. M. D. Peterson and R. C. Vaughan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 43–73;
3. M. A. Goldie, ‘The English system of liberty’, in The Cambridge history of eighteenth-century political thought (The Cambridge history of political thought), ed. M. A. Goldie and R. Wokler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 40–78;
4. see also C. Fatovic, ‘The Anti-Catholic roots of liberal and republican conceptions of freedom in English political thought’, Journal of the History of Ideas 66 (2005), pp. 37–58;
5. S. Zurbuchen ‘Republicanism and toleration’, in Republicanism: A shared European heritage: Volume 2. The values of republicanism in early modern Europe, ed. M. Van Gelderen and Q. Skinner (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 47–71;