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⁹ The emollient (or at least neutral) run of 1641 proclamations was ended by one of 10 Dec. for observing the Book of Common Prayer, which the earl of Essex told the king would ‘set all the kingdom by the ears’: Larkin, J. F. and Hughes, P. L., eds., Stuart royal proclamations (2 vols., Oxford, 1973–83), ii, pp. 752–4Google Scholar.

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¹³ TNA, PC 2/50, p. 130. For it being read in Leicestershire and Essex pulpits, see Bodleian Library (Bodl.), MS Walker c. 11, fo. 51v; British Library (BL), Additional (Add.) MS 5829, fo. 32. There was a protest by three godly aldermen at its reading in Exeter Cathedral, and also from some London officials, including Sheriff Isaac Pennington, in St Paul's: Stoyle, Mark, From deliverance to destruction (Exeter, 1996), p. 43Google Scholar; TNA, SP16/420/157; 16/427/117, PC2/50, pp. 244, 294, 348, C115/109/8854; the proclamation was also translated into Dutch and distributed in the Netherlands where the Covenanters had printing presses and a network of sympathizers: Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC), Report on the manuscripts of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (London, 1900), p. 125; Placat und verklärung … betreffend die auffrührischen practicken von alichen in Schottland (Leiden, 1639).

¹⁴ Charles endorsed such confrontational language and directed that the proclamation's more extensive sister work, the Large declaration, be written in a similar ‘smart’ style: Laing, ed., Baillie, ii, p. 430; also ibid., p. 487.

¹⁵ Larkin and Hughes, eds., Proclamations, ii, p. 667.

¹⁶ On this, see the comments of Nicholas Estwick relating to the promulgation of the Book of Sports: Bodl., MS Tanner 71, fo. 187.

¹⁷ Henry Valentine, God save the king (1639); Henry Peacham, The duty of all true subjects to their king (1639); Thomas Morton, A sermon preached before the kings most excellent majestie in … Durham (1639). Preaching before Charles in Durham Cathedral on 5 May, Morton, referred to the 27 Feb. proclamation as evidence of Charles's clemency which, he claimed, would be ‘an astonishment to posterity’ (p. 41). Charles had, however, intervened to change Morton's sermon text before it was printed, specifically removing claims that Calvin never authorized resistance to higher powers: TNA, SP16/437/56. On the wider clerical campaign, see also the visitation sermon at Canterbury in Apr. 1639 mentioned in Richard Culmer, Cathedrall newes from Canterbury (1644), p. 9.

¹⁸ Sharpe, Image wars, pp. 144–89.

¹⁹ HMC, Manuscripts of the Earl Cowper (3 vols., 1888–9), ii, pp. 216–17Google Scholar. Charles would soon issue another proclamation against ‘libellous and seditious pamphlets and discourses sent from Scotland’ after the appearance of the Covenanters’ An information from the states of the kingdome of Scotland: Larkin and Hughes, eds., Proclamations, ii, pp. 703–5; Como, ‘Secret printing’, pp. 55–6 and n. 31.

²⁰ Such comments suggest, pace Waurechen, ‘Covenanter propaganda’, that appeals to truth and an imagined rational audience through printed propaganda were not the preserve of the Covenanters.

²¹ See also the report of Covenanter reactions in BL, Add. MS 11045, fo. 5.

²² Laing, ed., Baillie, i, pp. 189, 487. Reading the proclamation in English churches was singled out by John Vicars in a discussion of the ‘foule calumnies and scoffes’ which had been cast upon the Covenanters in this period: John Vicars, God in the mount (1642), p. 16.

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²⁶ Calendar of state papers, Venetian, 1636–1639, pp. 509–10.

²⁷ Fielding, John, ‘Opposition to the personal rule of Charles I: the diary of Robert Woodford, 1637–1641’, Historical Journal, 31 (1988), pp. 769–88CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at p. 781.

²⁸ TNA, SP16/423/44(ii), 44(iv). See also SP16/425/16, 16(i), 16/430/10.

²⁹ It should also be noticed that one newsletter writer observed that since the proclamation was read, many Scottish books had been turned over to Justice Longe of Clerkenwell as required: BL, Add. MS 11045, fo. 1v. See also TNA, C115/109/8854.

³⁰ Laing, ed., Baillie, i, p. 188.

³¹ [Walter Balcanquhal], A large declaration concerning the late tumults in Scotland (Edinburgh, 1639). Cf. Kishlansky, ‘Lesson in loyalty’, p. 23, who offers a more positive reading of the Large declaration as part of a ‘skilful propaganda campaign’.

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³⁵ A prayer for the kings majestie in his expedition against the rebels of Scotland (1640); Laud, Works, iii, p. 106. For the directive that this be read by the minister and not an inferior official, see TNA, SP16/468/76. Bulstrode Whitlocke recalled the proclamation and prayer as part of the same propaganda initiative: Memorials of the English affairs (4 vols., Oxford, 1853), i, p. 102. For discussions of earlier state prayers, see Cooper, J. P. D., ‘“O Lorde save the kyng”: Tudor royal propaganda and the power of prayer’, in Bernard, George and Gunn, Steven, eds., Authority and consent in Tudor England (Aldershot, 2002), pp. 179–96Google Scholar, who describes such propaganda as ‘unquestionably directed towards a mass audience’ (p. 179), and Mears, Natalie, ‘Public worship and political participation in Elizabethan England’, Journal of British Studies, 51 (2012), pp. 4–25CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

³⁶ A prayer for the kings majestie in his northern expedition (1639); Laud, Works, iii, p. 105.

³⁷ TNA, SP16/467/147, 16/468/76, 16/469/52, 16/470/102.

³⁸ For Bright, see Commons Journal (CJ), ii, pp. 518, 569; Parliamentary Archives (PA), HL/PO/JO/10/1/119; J[ames] W[ilcock], A challenge sent to Master E[dward] B[right], a semi-separatist (1641), p. 6; idem, The true English Protestants apology (1642); Larking, ed., Proceedings … in Kent, pp. 144–5.

³⁹ George Swinnock, The life and death of Mr Th[omas] Wilson (1672), pp. 14–16. Wilson's case was raised in the early days of the Long Parliament by Sir Edward Dering, whose electoral candidacy Wilson had supported in both the Short and the Long Parliaments, and to whom Wilson dedicated a pamphlet in 1641: Jansson, Maija, ed., Proceedings in the opening session of the Long Parliament (7 vols., Rochester, NY, and Woodbridge, 2000–7), i, pp. 76, 81–2, 84–5, 368, 372, 379, 382Google Scholar; TNA, SP16/471/49; Larking, ed., Proceedings … in Kent, pp. 38–9; Thomas Wilson, Davids zeale for Zion (1641), sigs. A3–A4v.

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⁴² Culmer, Cathedrall newes, p. 8.

⁴³ Laing, ed., Baillie, i, p. 261.

⁴⁴ For concern about the ‘ventinge of private thowghts’ during the reading of this supposedly ‘public’ prayer, see Braddick, Michael and Greengrass, Mark, eds., ‘The letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper, 1641–1657’, in Seventeenth-century political and financial papers (Camden Society 5th ser., 7, London, 1996), pp. 158–9Google Scholar.

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⁴⁹ BL, Add. MS 5829, fo. 32. See BL, Harleian MS 6852, fos. 141, 295, and Stoyle, Soldiers and strangers, pp. 84–5, for later royalist allegations of the Scots entering England to take men's lands.

⁵⁰ Harris, Tim, ‘“A sainct in shewe, a devill in deede”: moral panics and anti-puritanism in seventeenth-century England’, in Lemmings, David and Walker, Claire, eds., Moral panics, the media and the law in early modern England (Basingstoke, 2009), pp. 96–116Google Scholar.

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⁵³ Braddick and Greengrass, eds., ‘Letters of Sir Cheney Culpeper’, p. 158. It is worth noting that Richard Culmer later glossed positive responses to the prayer as ‘cathedrall’ amens: above, p. 305.

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⁵⁵ BL, Add. MS 15903, fo. 75. It was probably not by accident that the document throughout referred to the minister as ‘Charles Devill’.

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⁵⁸ CJ, ii, pp. 274, 276; LJ, iv, pp. 379, 383; TNA, SP16/483/100; An ordinance of parliament for a day of publicke thanksgiving for the peace concluded between England and Scotland (1641). This clause was a later addition to the original ordinance secured at the commissioners’ request.

⁵⁹ Hyde, History of the rebellion, i, p. 385.

⁶⁰ Vicars, God in the mount, pp. 58–9.

⁶¹ Gardiner, ed., Constitutional documents, pp. 83–99; Sharpe, Image wars, pp. 158–60.

⁶² Whitlocke, Memorials, i, pp. 105–6.

⁶³ Laing, ed., Baillie, i, p. 286.

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⁷¹ Bodl., MS Nalson 2, fos. 72, 79.

⁷² BL, Add. MS 15672, fo. 42v.

⁷³ PJLP, ii, pp. 337, 341, iii, pp. 9, 12; CJ, ii, pp. 577, 603–4.

⁷⁴ The royal insignia was not wholly absent from parliamentary publications (for example, BL, Thomason 669, f.5 (1)) but it was used sparingly and disappeared as time went on.

⁷⁵ Hyde, History of the rebellion, ii, p. 74. Cf. ibid., pp. 48 n. 2, 69.

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⁷⁸ CJ, ii, p. 597; PJLP, ii, pp. 398, 402, iii, pp. 17–18.

⁷⁹ PJLP, iii, p. 37.

⁸⁰ CJ, ii, p. 611.

⁸¹ His majesties answer to a printed paper, intituled, a new declaration of the Lords and Commons of the 21st of June 1642 (York, 1642); His majesties declaration concerning leavies (1642). A number of editions were produced, including two with black letter typeface for wider consumption.

⁸² At its appearance, one parliamentary diarist seized immediately on the directive that it be published in all churches: PJLP, iii, p. 164.

⁸³ CJ, ii, p. 652; LJ, v, p. 182; BL, Thomason 669, f.5 (54).

⁸⁴ Calendar of state papers, Venetian, 1642–1643, pp. 100–1.

⁸⁵ PJLP, iii, pp. 210–11; CJ, ii, p. 669; Some speciall passages, 8 (12–19 July 1642), p. 47.

⁸⁶ Bodl., MS Nalson 13, fo. 178; CJ, ii, p. 684; PJLP, iii, p. 245; Some speciall passages, 9 (18–26 July 1642), p. 56. Gibb later maintained that he was unaware of parliament's order against reading the declaration: PA, HL/PO/JO/10/1/134/12; CJ, ii, pp. 789, 794.

⁸⁷ Russell, Fall of the British monarchies, p. 499; CJ, ii, pp. 609, 616. Cf. Order for publishing declarations and books set forth by his majesties command (Oxford, 1644). Jason Peacey notes that parliamentary print runs of 6,000–12,000 were usual: Politicians and pamphleteers, p. 47.

⁸⁸ For example, the Flintshire commissioners of array in Dec. 1642 directed ‘every minister in every parish churche’ to publish an order regarding the need to defend against the Chester parliamentarians ‘in the vulgar languadge’: Warwickshire Record Office, CR2017/TP646.

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¹⁰¹ See, for example, Thomas Wyatt of Ducklington's description of ‘trifling pamphlets’ as ‘very rude, uncivill & trifeling babbs’: Bodl., MS Top. Oxon. C378, p. 321.

¹⁰² Bodl., MS Walker c. 11, fo. 78. Cf. PA, HL/PO/JO/10/1/124/21(i); CJ, iii, p. 27.

¹⁰³ For example, see The copy of a letter sent from the committee at Lincoln (1642); CJ, ii, p. 695, iii, p. 26; LJ, v, p. 157; Stoyle, West Britons, pp. 160–2; Jerome de Groot, Royalist identities (Basingstoke, 2004), pp. 31–2.

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