^{page xiii note 1} See Appendix D. There is only one bill recorded in the Commons Journal which Aston fails to mention.

^{page xiv note 1} Earwaker, J. P., East Cheshire (2 vols., London, 1877), II, pp. 10, 160, 317, 448–49Google Scholar; Ormerod, G., History of Cheshire, revised by G. Helsby (3 vols., London, 1882), I, pp. 532–35Google Scholar; DNB; VCHChes., II, pp. 42, 119Google Scholar; AO; Wood, Anthony, Athenae Oxonienses, revised by Philip Bliss (5 vols., London, 1815), II, pp. 184–85Google Scholar; CSPD, 1628–29, pp. 222, 225Google Scholar. The painting is in the Manchester Art Gallery. Baker, C. H. Collins, ‘John Souch of Chester’, Connoisseur (1928), pp. 131–32Google Scholar. I am grateful to Mrs Dorothy Owen for this reference.

^{page xiv note 2} I am grateful to Mr Peter Salt for bringing to my attention a warrant in the Lord Chamberlain's warrant books describing Aston as ‘a Gentleman Extraordinary of the Privy Chamber' (P.R.O. LC5/134, p. 170). John Aston (d. 1650) was active in royal service (e.g. CSPD, 1629–31, p. 161Google Scholar) and his adventures in the Bishops’ War are described in his journal published in ‘North Country Diaries’, Surtees Society (1910).Google Scholar

^{page xiv note 3} For a discussion of Aston's role in the Cheshire ship money controversy, see Lake, Peter, ‘The Collection of Ship Money in Cheshire during the Sixteen-thirties: A Case Study of Relations Between Central and Local Government’, Northern History (1981), passimGoogle Scholar; Marcotte, Elaine, ‘Shrieval Administration of Ship Money in Cheshire, 1637: Limitations of Early Stuart Governance’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (1975), pp. 148–50Google Scholar; Morrill, John, Revolt of the Provinces (London, 1976, 1980), p.25Google Scholar. For further reading about the spring elections of 1640 in Cheshire, see CSPD, 1639–40, pp. 564–65, 590–91Google Scholar; VCH Ches., II, p. 108Google Scholar; Morrill, John, Cheshire 1630–1660 (London, 1974), pp. 25, 33Google Scholar; Lake, , ‘Collection’, pp.67–68Google Scholar; Morrill, John, ‘Sir William Brereton and England's Wars of Religion’, Journal of British Studies (1985)Google Scholar. I am grateful to Dr Morrill for showing me a typescript of his article before publication.

^{page xv note 1} Morrill, , Cheshire, pp.37, 45–56Google Scholar; Morrill, , Provinces, pp.48–49, 150–52Google Scholar; Fletcher, Anthony, The Outbreak of the English Civil War (London, 1981), pp. 91–124, 283–91, passimGoogle Scholar; Maltby, Judith, ‘Approaches to the Popular Support for the Book of Common Prayer and the Established Church in late Elizabethan and Early Stuart England’ (Cambridge Ph.D thesis in progress).Google Scholar

^{page xv note 2} Sir Thomas Aston's published works on this subject are: A Remonstrance Against Presbytery (n.p., 1641); A Collection of Sundry Petitions (n.p., 1642).

^{page xv note 3} Morrill, , Cheshire, pp. 53–54, 56, 64–65, 75–76Google Scholar; Hutton, Ronald, The Royalist War Effort 1642–1646 (London, 1982), pp. 7–8, 22–30, 39, 44–46, 97–98, 127, 192–93Google Scholar; Dore, R. N., The Civil Wars in Cheshire (Chester, 1966), passimGoogle Scholar; H.M.C., 13th Report, Portland Mss. 1, p. 306; B. L. Thomason Tracts E.309(24). The owner of the diary, Mr Howard Talbot, is planning a biography of Sir Thomas which will deal in depth with his military career.