Charles I and the People of England.

Cover -- Charles I and the People of England -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Prologue -- Introduction -- An Incomplete Narrative -- What´s Missing? -- Chapter1. The Commonwealth of England -- Chapter2. The Oath of a King -- Chapter3. Sacred Kingship and Dutiful Subjection -- Chapter4. Unprosperous Wars -- Chapter5. An Accessible Monarch? -- Chapter6. Importunate Petitioners -- Chapter7. The King's Religion and the People´s Church -- Chapter8. The King´s Declaration and the People´s Sports -- Chapter9. Sacred Kingship Eclipsed -- Chapter10. The Blindness of Charles I -- 1: The Commonwealth of England -- A Blessèd Realm -- Aristocrats and Gentlemen -- Ordinary People -- An Ordered Society -- Weak Women -- Wanderers -- A Balance Disturbed -- Refractory Disorders -- A Wider World -- A Cold Country -- 2: The Oath of a King -- A Royal Ritual -- A Contested Oath -- 3: Sacred Kingship and Dutiful Subjection -- Excellent Tokens -- Royal Majesty -- Prerogative Power -- Ship Money and the Safety of the Kingdom -- Material Demands -- Dishonourable Discourse -- Accumulated Frictions -- 4: Unprosperous Wars -- Wars of Christendom -- Men at Arms -- Burdensome Billeting -- Distressed Mariners -- The Perils of Peace -- 5: An Accessible Monarch? -- The People's Gaze -- The Pulse of the Court -- The King on the Road -- 6: Importunate Petitioners -- Aristocrats and Intermediaries -- A Mathematical Petitioner -- Disorderly Petitioning -- Urgent Messages -- Warning Libels -- An Affable King -- 7: The King´s Religion and the People´s Church -- A Christian Monarch -- A Papist in his Heart? -- The King´s Catholics -- Ceremonialism and its Discontents -- Puritan Misdemeanours -- God´s Ambassadors -- God´s People -- Sabbath Offences -- Accumulated Tensions -- 8: The King´s Declaration and the People´s Sports -- The Discipline of the Sabbath.

The King´s Declaration -- To Read or Not to Read -- Salves to Conscience -- Contested Sports -- Reversal -- 9: Sacred Kingship Eclipsed -- Mutiny in Scotland -- King Charles´s Northern Wars -- Trampling on Majesty -- Constitutional Contention -- Railing Venom -- The Royal Touch -- 10: The Blindness of Charles I -- Impaired Vision -- Notes -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Chapter1 -- Chapter2 -- Chapter3 -- Chapter4 -- Chapter5 -- Chapter6 -- Chapter7 -- Chapter8 -- Chapter9 -- Chapter10 -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives, London -- Bodleian Library, Oxford -- Borthwick Institute, York -- Bristol Record Office, Bristol -- British Library, London -- Cambridge University Library, Cambridge -- Cambridgeshire Record Office, Cambridge -- Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies, Aylesbury -- Cheshire Record Office, Chester -- Devon Record Office, Exeter -- Dorset History Centre, Dorchester -- Downing College, Cambridge -- Durham Cathedral Library and Archives, Durham -- Durham University Library, Durham -- East Sussex Record Office, Lewes -- Essex Record Office, Chelmsford -- Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington -- Gloucestershire Archives, Gloucester -- Guildhall Library, London (transferred to London Metropolitan Archives) -- Hammersmith and Fulham Archives, Hammersmith -- Hampshire Record Office, Winchester -- Hereford Record Office, Hereford -- Hertfordshire Archives, Hertford -- Huntington Library, San Marino, California -- Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone (formerly East Kent Archives) -- Lambeth Palace Library, London -- Leicestershire Record Office, Leicester -- Lichfield Record Office, Lichfield -- Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln -- London Metropolitan Archives, London -- The National Archives, Kew -- National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth -- New College, Oxford -- Norfolk Record Office, Norwich.

Northamptonshire Record Office, Northampton -- Nottinghamshire Archives, Nottingham -- Nottingham University Library, Nottingham -- Oxfordshire Record Office, Oxford -- Parliamentary Archives, London -- Queen´s College Oxford -- Sheffield Archives, Sheffield -- Shropshire Record Office, Shrewsbury -- Somerset Archives, Taunton -- Staffordshire Record Office, Stafford -- Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich -- William Salt Library, Stafford -- Wiltshire Record Office, Trowbridge -- Worcestershire Record Office, Worcester -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Picture Acknowledgements -- Index.

The story of the reign of Charles I - through the lives of his people. Prize-winning historian David Cressy re-creates the broadest possible panorama of early Stuart England, as it slipped from complacency to revolution.

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