23 Montgomeryshire Collections, vol. 22 (1888), p. 194.
24 Phillips, Memoirs of the Civil War in Wales, II, p. 209.
25 Journal of the House of Commons, III (n.d.), p. 636.
26 See: Phillips, Memorials of the Civil War in Wales I, chs 5–7; Hutton, The Royal-
ist War Effort, pts 5–6; Gaunt, A Nation Under Siege, chs 5–6; and Dore, ‘Sir Thomas
Myddleton’s Attempted Conquest of Powys’.
27 Montgomeryshire Collections, passim, but see especially the 1561 town charter
transcribed and translated in vol. 21 (1887), pp. 22–31; I. Soulsby, The Towns of
Medieval Wales (Chichester, 1983); G. Williams, Renewal and Reformation: Wales,
c. 1415–1642 (Oxford, 1993); G.H. Jenkins, The Foundations of Modern Wales,
1642–1780 (Oxford, 1993); J.G. Jones, Early Modern Wales, c. 1525–1640 (Basingstoke,
1994); C.J. Arnold, The Archaeology of Montgomeryshire (Welshpool, 1990); J. Speed,
The Theatre of Great Britain: The Second Book Containing the Principality of Wales (1676),
p. 115, which noted the ‘fruitfull … Soyle’ of the county, especially the ‘fruitfulnesse’
of the eastern half, and which described Montgomery as ‘the chiefest’ of the six towns
of the county, blessed with ‘very wholesome … aire, and pleasant … situation, upon
an easie ascent of an hill, and upon another farre higher mounted stands a faire and
well-repaired Castle, from the East Rocke whereof the Towne hath beene walled, as by
some part yet standing, and the tract and trench of the rest even unto the North-side
of the said Castle, may evidently be seene’.
28 The House of Commons, 1558–1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 3 vols (1981), vol. I,
pp. 320–1; The House of Commons, 1660–1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 3 vols (1983), vol. I,
pp. 516–18; P.D.G. Thomas, ‘The Montgomery Borough Constituency, 1660–1728’,
Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, vol. 20 (1962–64), pp. 293–304; D. Brunton and
D.H. Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (1954).
29 D. Underdown, Fire From Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth
Century (1992); M. Stoyle, From Deliverance to Destruction: Rebellion and Civil War in an
English City (Exeter, 1996).
30 Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, eds J. Bruce,
W.D. Hamilton and S.C. Lomas, 23 vols (1858–97) (‘CSPD’), 1635, p. 555; CSPD,
1635–36, pp. 204, 216; CSPD, 1636–37, pp. 419, 448–49, 506–7; CSPD, 1637, pp.
64–65, 393; CSPD, 1637–38, pp. 92, 365, 490; CSPD, 1638–39, pp. 74, 401; CSPD,
1639–40, p. 430; Herbert Correspondence, ed. Smith, pp. 91–92.
31 See, for example, P. Lake, ‘The Collection of Ship Money in Cheshire during
the 1630s: A Case Study of the Relations between Central and Local Government’,
Northern History, vol. 17 (1981); C.A. Clifford, ‘Ship Money in Hampshire: Collection
and Collapse’, Southern History, vol. 4 (1982); and K. Fincham, ‘The Judges’ Decision
on Ship Money in February 1637: The Reaction in Kent’, BIHR, vol. 57 (1984).
32 CSPD, 1637–38, p. 490.
33 CSPD, 1638–39, pp. 513–14; CSPD, 1639, pp. 103, 122, 525.
34 CSPD, 1640, pp. 205, 467–68.
35 See especially the work of Stoyle, From Deliverance to Destruction and Loyalty and
Locality: Popular Allegiance in Devon during the English Civil War (Exeter, 1994). A. Duf-
fin, Faction and Faith: The Political Allegiance of the Cornish Gentry, 1600–42 (Exeter,
1996) also stresses the centrality of religion, as does D. Underdown, Revel, Riot and
Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603–60 (Oxford, 1985), though
Underdown links religion to broader cultural and socio–economic trends and patterns.
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