Many people ask me where I get my information
from. Well I own a lot of books but the library has many more. Here is a good
selection below.
a) Charles's
letters exist in many places, the various publications that include them often
duplicating each other. Not all the letters have been printed and there is no
collected edition of those that have. The original letters are in various
manuscript collections including the Clarendon MSS in the Bodleian Library, the
Strafford MSS in the Central Library, Sheffield, the MSS of the Duke of Beaufort, the Domestic State
Papers in the Public Record Office, and the MSS of the House of Lords. Among
important printed sources are:
Cabala sive scrinia sacra , 1654 and later 1787.
Bromley, G., Collection of Original Royal Letters .
Letters to King James the Sixth from the Queen, Prince Henry, Prince
Charles (these are fascimiles), Maitland Club, No. 35, 1835.
Halliwell, J. O., Letters of the Kings of England , 1846.
Ellis, H., Original Letters Illustrative of English History
: 1st Series, vol. 3; 2nd Series, vol. 3; 3rd Series, vol. 4., 1824-6.
Petrie,
C., The Letters, Speeches and Proclamations of King Charles I . This is a small selection, as is a later edition,
1935.
Letters concerning the Spanish Match are in the Hardwicke Papers , vol. I
printed from the Harleian MSS; so are letters and documents concerning the Earl
of Bristol printed from the State Papers.
Letters, etc. concerning the Isle of Rhé are in the Hardwicke
papers , vol. II, printed from the State Papers.
Kensington's (Holland's) proxy courtship letters of Henrietta-Maria are in Cabala .
Charles's own courtship letters to Henrietta-Maria are in the Clarendon MSS and calendared in the
Clarendon State Papers .
Letters from Charles to Strafford are in W. Knowler, The Earl of Strafford's Letters and Despatches ,
1739.
The correspondence of Charles and Secretary
Nicholas in 1641 is in an Appendix to most editions of Evelyn's
Diary and Letters .
Charles's letters to James,
Duke of Hamilton, are in G. Burnet, Memoirs of the Lives and Actions of James and William,
Dukes of Hamilton , 1677.
The correspondence captured by Parliament after Naseby
was published in many forms, generally called The King's Cabinet Opened , from
1645 onwards. The original letters are among H/Lords MSS, 6, I.
Charles's letters to Henrietta-Maria from Newcastle in 1646 were published by J. Bruce as Charles I in 1646 , Camden Society, 1856.
Charles's letters to Glamorgan (Worcester)
are in MSS Duke of Beaufort, calendered in H.M. Comm. Duke of Beaufort , 12, IX.
― 465 ―
Charles's letters to Ormonde are in the Carte Papers .
'Escape' letters of Charles to Firebrace while at Carisbrooke are in an Appendix
to P. Barwick, Life of John Barwick , 1724.
b) Charles's Speeches
and Proclamations.
Some will be found in Petrie (above), in the Proceedings of
Parliament (below), in Rushworth (below) as well as in separate publications.
Important are the
Reliquiae Sacrae Carolinae , 1649.
Bibliotheca Regia 'such of the papers . . . as have escaped the wrack and ruine
of these times', 1659.
Charles's disputations with Henderson
at Newcastle in 1646 are in the
Reliquiae (above) as well as being published separately.
Unlike his father, Charles wrote very little apart from a few odd verses, a
paraphrase or two, a few lists and many annotations. His chief period of
composition was in captivity and resulted in the Eikon
Basilike , published immediately after his
execution. The generally accepted view now is that the Eikon was written
jointly by Charles and John
Gauden, Bishop of Worcester, see
Madan, F. F.,
A New Bibliography of the Eikon Basilike
, 1950.
Roper, H. R.
Trevor, History Today , 1951.
Herbert, however, thought that some of the
sheets that Charles was handling were not in his
own handwriting. It cannot be certain how far Herbert
was reliable. But the sentiments of the Eikon so strongly accord with Charles's
own, and the style so strongly resembles his, that there can be little doubt
that Charles was closely involved. Perhaps his
drafts were prepared for the printer by Gauden and the sheets Herbert
saw Charles handling were in the nature of
'proofs'. Someone was certainly operating on the practical side to have the
machinery of printing and distribution ready to operate immediately after the
King's death. See also
The Last Counsel of a Martyred King , 1660.
Heylin, P., The Works of King Charles
I . . . with the Life and Reign , 1735.
Chalmers, G., The Poetic Remains of some of the Scottish Kings , 1824 (includes
'Majesty in Misery' said to have been written at Carisbrooke by Charles in 1648
and 'Lines on a Quiet Conscience' from Woty's Poetical Calendar , vol. VIII,
also attributed to Charles, though without date).
C—
State Papers, Etc.
The official State Papers Domestic cover a vast variety of state and
inter-departmental correspondence and instruction, memoranda, reports; they
include reports of foreign missions, letters to and from Ambassadors, they record official payments, they include letters and
instructions from the King and petitions from ordinary people. They are
calendared as Calendar of State Papers Domestic .
The Reports from the Venetian Ambassadors in London
to the Doge and Senate at Venice
cover the period. A tradition of keen observation, generally accurate, makes
them enjoyable and useful reading. They are translated and calendared as
Calendar of State Papers Venetian .
Other collections of State Papers include
Rushworth, J., Historical Collections of Private Passages of State etc.,
7 vols, 1659 ff.; later eds. 8 vols, 1680-1701.
Nalson, J., An Impartial Collection of the Great Affairs of State etc., 2 vols,
1682-3.
For Scotland
the Letters and State Papers during the Reign of King James the Sixth contain
useful material concerning the baby Charles,
Abbotsford Club, VI, 1838.
Letters to King James the
Sixth contain early letters of Charles and his
family as well as the Accounts of the Lords High Treasurers of Scotland
published as an Appendix to the Introduction which are useful for Charles's
birth and nursery years.
Statutes of the Realm
Besides the official publication there are several abridged editions:
Firth, C. H. and Rait, R. S., Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum 1642-1660
, cover the period when Charles was absent from Westminster, 1911.
Steele, R. R.,
Bibliotheca Lindesiana (a bibliography of royal Proclamations), 1910.
Rymer, T. and Sanderson, R., Foedera , includes many pronouncements made by the
Privy Council during the Personal Rule, 20 vols, 1704-32.
Records of the Privy Council
The Privy Council Registers are officially published in full transcript as
Acts of the Privy Council of England, New Series, 1542-1631 , 46 vols,
1890-1964.
The Registers for 1631-1637 are reproduced photographically on micro-opaque
cards, 1962.
The Registers for 1637-1645 are published as slightly reduced facsimiles in
codex form, 6 vols, 1967-68.
D—
Various Collections
Many news-letters from the State Papers in the Public Record Office have been
transcribed by Thomas Birch and edited by R. F. Williams in 4 vols as The Court
and Times of James I and The Court and Times of Charles I , 1849.
The Letters of John Chamberlain (many of which are in the State Papers and are
included in Birch (above)) were edited in 2 vols by N.
E. McClure,
1939.
The despatches of the agent of the Grand Duke of Tuscany are full of interest.
They are calendared in Reports of the H.M.
Comm. , 11, i (Skrine MSS).
Harleian Miscellany: or a collection of scarce, curious, and entertaining
tracts . . . found in the late Earl of Oxford's library , ed. W. Oldys, 8 vols,
1744-6; ed. T. Park, 10 vols., 1808-13.
Somers Tracts . . . selected from . . . public as well as private libraries ,
16 vols, 1748-51; ed. W. Scott 13 vols, 1809-15.
Howell, J., Epistolae
Ho Elianae
, 3 vols, 1645.
Whitelocke, B., Memorials of the English Affairs , 1682 and later.
Harington, J., Nugae
Antiquae , 2 vols, 1769.
Nichols, J. (ed.), The Progresses . . . etc. . . . of King
James the First (compiled from MSS and
pamphlets, 4 vols), 1828.
E—
Biographies of Charles
Arnway, J., The Tablet, or Moderation of Charles
I, Martyr , 1649.
Wotton, H., A Panegyrick of King Charles
, 1649.
Anon., The Life and Reign of King Charles
or the Pseudo-Martyr Discovered , 1651.
Gerbier, B.(?), The Non-Such Charles his Character
, 1651.
Lilly, W., The True History of King James
the First and King Charles
the First , 1651.
Weldon, A., The Court and Character of King James, Whereunto is now Added the
Court of King Charles Continued unto the Beginning of these Unhappy Times ,
1651.
Peyton, E., The Divine Catastrophe of the House of Stuarts ,
1652.
L'Estrange, H., The Reign of Charles
I , 1655.
Heylin, P., Observations upon the History (i.e. of L'Estrange,
above), 1655.
L'Estrange, H., The Observator Observed , 1656.
Sanderson, W., A Compleat History of the Life and Reigne of King
Charles From His Cradle to His Grave , 1658.
Van den Bos, L., The Life and Raigne of King Charles , 1658.
Rider, W., new ed. of Arnway (above), 1661.
Perrinchief, R., The Royal Martyr, or the Life and Death of King
Charles I , 1676.
Butler, S., The Plagiary Exposed .
. . against the Memory of King Charles
I , 1691.
Hollingworth, R., The Character of King Charles
, 1692.
Hollingworth, R., A Defence of King Charles
, 1692.
Perrinchief, R., The Life and Death of King Charles I (similar to Perrinchief,
1676), 1693.
Harris, W., An Historical and Critical Account
of the Life and Writings of Charles I , 1758.
D'Israeli, I., Commentaries on the Life
and Reign of Charles I , 1828-31.
Abbott, Jacob, History of King
Charles the First of England
, 1848.
Guizot, F. P. G., History of Charles
the First and the English Revolution , 1854.
Chancellor, E. Beresford,
The Life of Charles I, 1600-1625 , 1886.
Adams, W. H. D., The White King , 1889.
Seton, W. W.,
The Early Years of Frederick Henry,
Prince of Wales and Charles, Duke of Albany
, 1916.
MacKilliam, A. H., Charles the First , 1917.
Coit, C. W.,
The Royal Martyr , 1924.
Higham, F. M.,
Charles I , 1932.
Belloc, H., Charles the First ,
1933.
John, Evan, King
Charles I , 1933.
Brookes, J., A Vindication of Charles
I , 1934.
Pakenham, M. P.,
Charles I , 1936.
Stratford, E. Wingfield,
Charles, King of England (3 vols), 1948-50.
French, A., Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval ,
1955.
Wedgwood, C. V.,
The King's Peace, 1637-1641 , 1955.
Wedgwood, C. V.,
The King's War, 1641-1647 , 1958.
Toynbee, M. R.,
Charles the First , 1964.
Hibbert, C., Charles I , 1968.
Bowle, J., Charles I , 1975.
Carlton, C., The Personal King ,
1983.
F—
Particular Studies of Charles
Williamson, H.
Ross, Charles
and Dictator , 1946.
Young, G. M.,
Charles I and Dictator , 1950.
Dobson, J., The Children of Charles I , 1975.
Hibberd, C., Charles I and the Popish Plot ,
1983.
G—
Particular Episodes in Charles's Life: The Sources Given below Are a Few of the
Most Useful
1—
Birth and Childhood
Chancellor (above) is the only one who deals with the early years in any
detail.
Carey, Robert,
Earl of Monmouth, Memoirs of the Life of . . . , 1759 (passim )
Cantrell, Henry, The Royal Martyr, a true
Christian , 1716 (for the baptism of Charles).
Keevil, J. J.,
'The Illness of Charles, Duke of Albany
from 1600-1612', Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , Vol.
IX, No. 4, October, 1954.
Arbuckle, W. F., 'The Gowrie Conspiracy', Scottish Historical Review , 36, pp.
1 ff and 89 ff, 1957.
2—
Spanish Marriage
The Hardwick State
Papers vol. I are the main repository of the letters from Charles,
James, Buckingham, Bristol
and contain the answers of Bristol
to the charges against him. Also
Wotton, H. The Life and Death of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (reasons for going).
Chamberlain, J. Letters , Vol. II,
480-81 (for the return from Spain).
Journals of the House of Lords , Vol.
III, 220-33 for Buckingham's
'Narration'.
Proposed Spanish Marriage Treaty, and the negotiations ,
Clarendon MSS., Rushworth I, 76 ff; Fray Francisco de Jesus, 'Narrative of the
Spanish Marriage Treaty', ed. S.
R. Gardiner,
Camden Soc. , 1869.
'The Earl of Bristol's
Defence of his Negotiations in Spain',
Camden Soc.
Misc. VI ,
1871.
3—
Cadiz and La
Rochelle
Glanville, J. 'The Voyage to Cadiz
in 1625'; Camden Soc, 1883.
Journal of all the Proceedings of the Duke of Buckingham in the Isle of Ree ,
1627.
4—
Civil War
Manley, T., Iter Carolium
, Jan. 1642-1649, 1660.
Walker,
E., Historical Discourses , 1705.
Maseres, F. (ed.), Select Tracts relating to the Civil Wars in England
, 2 vols, 1815.
Parsons, D. (ed.), The Diary of Henry
Slingsby (1638-45) , 1836.
Cary, H. (ed.),
Memorials of the Great Civil War, 1642-52 , 2 vols. 1842.
Symonds, R., Diary of the Marches
of the Royal Army 1644-5 , Camden
Soc., 1859.
Peacock, E. (ed.), Army Lists of Roundheads and Cavaliers . . . 1642 , 1874.
Langmead, T. L.
(ed.), Sir Edward
Lake's account of his Interview
with Charles I , Camden Soc., 1858.
Varley, F. J.
The Siege of Oxford . . . 1642-1646
, 1935.
Young, P., 'King Charles I's Army in 1642', J. Soc. Army Hist. Research , 17,
pp. 102-9, 1938.
Ketton-Cremer, R. W.,
'The King's Journey', in A Norfolk Gallery , 1948.
Burne, A. H.,
The Battlefields of England
, 1950.
Burne, A. H.
and Young, P., The Great Civil War , 1950.
Woolrych, A. H.,
Battles of the Civil War , 1961.
Roy,
I., 'The Royalist Council of War, 1642-6', B.I.H.R. ,
XXXV, pp. 150-68, 1962.
Young, P., Edgehill, the Campaign and the Battle
, 1967.
Young, P., Marston Moor, the Campaign and the Battle
, 1967.
Smith, G. R.,
Without Touch of Dishonour (Life and death of Slingsby), 1968.
Thomas, P.
W. Sir John
Berkenhead 1617-1679, a Royalist Career in
Politics and Polemics , 1969.
Toynbee, M. and Young, P., Cropredy
Bridge 1644, the Campaign and the Battle
, 1970.
Young, P. and Emberton, W., The Cavalier Army, its Organization and Everyday
Life , 1974.
Smith, G. R.
and Toynbee, M., Leaders of the Civil Wars 1642-1648 , 1977.
Malcolm, J.
L., 'A King in Search of Soldiers: Charles
I in 1942', Hist. J. , 21, 1978.
Young, P., Civil War England
, 1981.
Hutton, R., The Royalist War Effort, 1642-1646 , 1982.
5—
Captivity
Herbert, T., Threnodia Carolina , being the 1st
ed. of Herbert's Memoirs of the last two years
of the Reign of . . . King Charles
I (other eds 1702, 1813, infra Stevenson, etc.) 1678.
Peck, F. (ed.), Desiderata Curiosa , 2 vols, 1732-5; (contains much material on
escape to the Scots), 1779.
Birch, T. (ed.), Letters . . . Hammond
. . . relating to King Charles
I while he was confined in Carisbrook , 1764.
Ashburnham, J., Narrative . . . of his Attendance on King Charles
, 2 vols, 1830.
Berkeley, J., Memoirs (Appendix to above), 1830.
Montreuil, J. de, The Diplomatic
Correspondence of 1645-48 , ed. J.
G. Fotheringham,
2 vols, Scot. Hist. Soc.
(for Charles's escape to the Scots), 1898/9.
Fea, A., Memoirs of the Martyr King, 1646-9 , 1905.
Stevenson, G. S.
(ed.), Charles I in Captivity from Contemporary
Sources . Contains Herbert's Memoirs ,
Narratives of Col. Edward Cooke,
Major Huntington, Henry
Firebrace, 1927.
Firebrace, C. W.,
Honest Harry, being the biography of Sir
Henry Firebrace,
Knight, 1619-1691 , 1932.
Mackenzie, N., 'Sir
Thomas Herbert
of Tintern, a parliamentary royalist', Bull.I.H.R. , 28, pp. 23-86, 1955/56.
Jones, J., The Royal Prisoner (in the Isle of Wight),
1965.
6—
Trial and Execution
Nalson, J., A True Copy of the Journal of the High Court of Justice for the
Tryal of King Charles I , 1684.
Herbert, T., Memoir of the Last Years of the
Reign of King Charles I to which is added a Particular Account of the Funeral
of the King , several eds, 1678.
The State Trials , vol. IV, (ed. from contemporary sources by W.
Cobbett, T.
B. Howell
and others) 1809-28.
Halford, H., Essays and Orations , 'An Account of the Opening of the Tomb of King
Charles I at Windsor
in 1813', 1831.
Muddiman, J. C.
(ed.), The Trial of King Charles
the First , 1928.
Galwey, R. Payne,
The Scaffold George of Charles
I , 1908.
Lockyer, R., Trial of Charles I
, 1959.
Wedgwood, C. V.,
The Trial of Charles I , 1964.
The newssheets for end Jan. and beginning Feb., 1649.
H—
Particular Topics
1—
Ships and the Navy
Heywood, T., A True Description of His
Majestie's Royal Ship [the Sovereign of the Seas], 1637.
Oppenheim, M., A History of the Administration of the Royal
Navy and of Merchant Shipping in Relation to the Navy from 1509 to 1660 , 1896.
Penn, C. D.,
The Navy under the Early Stuarts , 1913.
Pett, P., The Autobiography of Phineas
Pett , ed. W. G.
Perrin, 1918.
Davis, R., The
Rise of the English Shipping Industry , 1962.
2—
Fishing
Smith, S., A True Narration of the Royall Fishings of Great
Britaine and Ireland
, 1641.
Smith, S., The Herring-Busse Trade , 1641.
Elder, J. R.,
The Royal Fishery Companies of the Seventeenth Century , 1912.
3—
Sovereignty of the Seas
Selden, J., Mare Clausum (written 1617 or '18, pub. 1635, trans. M.
Nedham 1652).
Borough, J., The Sovereignty of the British
Seas , 1633, pub. 1651.
4—
Ship Money
Gordon, M. D.,
'The Collection of Ship Money in the reign of Charles
I', Trans.R.H.S. , 3rd S.4, pp. 141-62, 1910.
Keir, D. L., 'The Case of Ship-Money', Law Quart. Rev. , 52, pp. 546-74, 1936.
Bard, N. P.,
'The Ship Money Case and William
Fiennes, Viscount Saye and Sele',
Bull.I.H.R. , 50-51, pp. 177-84, 1977.
Swales, R. J. W., 'The Ship Money Levy of 1628', ibid. , pp. 164-76.
5—
Patents and Monopolies
Price, W. H.,
The English patents of monopoly , 1906.
Rymer, Privy Council (supra , C.)
Leonard, H.
H., 'Distraint of Knighthood: the last
phase, 1625-41', History , No. 63, pp. 23-7, 1978.
6—
The King's Finances
Dietz, F. C.,
Receipts and Issues of the Exchequer during the Reigns of James
I and Charles I (Smith
College Studies, Northampton,
Mass), 1928.
Dietz, F. C.,
English Public Finance, 1558-1641 , 1932.
Ashton, R., 'The Disbursing Official Under the Early Stuarts:
the Cases of Sir William
Russell and Philip
Burlamachi', Bull.I.H.R. , 30, pp. 162-74,
1957.
Ashton, R., The Crown and the Money Market, 1603-1640 , 1960.
Tawney, R. H.,
Business and Politics under James I: Lionel
Cranfield as Merchant and Minister , 1958.
Prestwich, M., Cranfield, Politics and Profits under the Early Stuarts
, 1966.
Alexander, M. Van Cleave, Charles
I's Lord Treasurer , 1976.
I—
The King and His Court
1—
Whitehall and Architecture
Dugdale, G., Whitehall Through the
Centuries , 1950.
Charlton, J., The Banqueting House , 1964.
Millar, O., The Whitehall Ceiling ,
1958.
Summerson, J., Architecture in Britain
1530-1830 , 1953.
Akrig, G. P.,
Jacobean Pageant or the Court of King James I , (for Whitehall
and the courtier's life), 1962.
Parry, G., The Golden Age Restor'd: The Culture of the Stuart
Court, 1603-1643 , 1981.
2—
The Court Masque
and Order of the Garter
Simpson, P. and Bell
C. P.,
Designs by Inigo Jones
for Plays and Masques at Court (Walpole
Soc.), 1924.
Steele, M. S.,
Plays and Masques at the Court during the Reigns of Elizabeth,
James, and Charles
, 1926.
Welsford, E., The Court Masque
, 1927.
Nicoll, A., Stuart Masques and the Renaissance
Stage , 1938.
Orgel, S., The Jonsonian Masque , 1965.
Ashmole, E., The Institution, Laws, and Commerce of the Most-Noble Order of the
Garter , 1672.
Ashmole, E., A History of the Most Noble Order of the Garter , 1715.
Wilson, T. H., Saint George in Tudor and Stuart England-the development of the
Cult of the Order of the Garter , (London M. Phil. thesis), 1976
For both 1 and 2 (above) lives of Inigo Jones, e.g.
Gotch, A., Inigo Jones , 1928.
Summerson, J., Inigo Jones
, 1966.
3—
Art and the King's Pictures
Waterhouse, E., Painting in Britain
1530-1790 , 1953.
Whinney, M. and Millar, O., English Art
1625-1714 , 1957.
Millar, O., The Queen's Pictures (partic. Pt. 3), 1977.
Hewlett, H. G., 'Charles I as a Picture
Collector', in The Nineteenth Century , vol. XXVIII, Aug. 1890.
Phillips, C., The Picture Gallery of Charles
I (Portfolio Monograph No. 25), Jan. 1896.
Pickel, M. B.,
Charles I as Patron of Poetry and Drama , 1936.
Roper, H. Trevor-,
The Plunder of the Arts in the Seventeenth Century (for Mantuan Collection),
1970.
Sainsbury, W. N.,
Appendix H (Q.12) for Mantuan Collection.
Van der Doort, A., Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I reproduced with an
Introduction by Oliver Millar
(Walpole Soc. vol. XXXVII), 1960.
Millar, O., The Age of Charles I: Painting in England
1620-1649 , 1972.
Nuttall, W. L. F., 'King Charles's
Pictures and the Commonwealth Sale',
Apollo , Oct. 1965.
4—
Literature
Knights, L. C.,
Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson , 1937.
Wedgwood, C. V.,
Seventeenth-Century English Literature , 1950, 1970.
Wedgwood, C. V.,
Poetry and Politics Under the Stuarts , 1960.
5—
Portraits of Charles
Cust, L., 'The Equestrian Portraits of Charles
I', Burlington Magazine , XVIII,
pp. 207 ff. 1910-11.
Mann, J. G., 'The Charles I
Statue at Charing Cross', Country Life , pp. 908-9, May 16, 1947.
Toynbee, M. R.,
'Some Early Portraits of Charles I', Burlington
Magazine , XCI pp. 4-9, 1949.
Esdaile, K. A., 'The Busts and Statues of Charles I', ibid , pp. 4-14, 1949.
Millar, O., Age of Charles I (above).
Strong, R., Charles I on Horseback , 1972.
6—
Little Gidding
Mayor, J. E. B. (ed.), Two Lives , 1855.
Carter, T.
T. (ed.), Nicholas
Ferrar, his Household and his Friends ,
1892.
Blackstone, B. (ed.), The Ferrar Papers , 1938.
Haycock, A. L.,
Nicholas Ferrar
of Little Gidding , 1938.
Maycock, A. L.,
Chronicles of Little Gidding , 1954.
7—
The King's Evil; The Occult, etc.
Browne, J., Service used in touching for the King's Evil ,
1684.
Crawford, R., The King's Evil , 1911.
Toynbee, M. R.
'Charles I and the King's Evil' in Folklore vol.
LXI, March 1950.
Thomas, K.
V., Religion and the Decline of Magic ,
1971.
J—
The King and His Church
1—
The Church of England and the Church of Rome
Laud, biography (Q..
Charles's own letters and speeches, etc. (B).
Gamaches, C. de, Memoirs of the Mission in England of the Capuchin Friars . . . 1630-1669 are printed in
vol. II of Birch, Court and Times of Charles I (supra).
Panzani, Con, Rossetti , transcripts of the correspondence are in the P.R.O.
Panzani, G., The Memoirs of Gregorio Panzani, including an account of his
Agencies in England 1634-1636 , ed. J. Berington, 1793.
Meyer, A. O., 'Charles I and Rome', Am.Hist.Rev. , 19, pp. 13-26, 1913.
Albion, G. G., Charles I and the Court of Rome , 1938.
Hill, J.E.C. Economic Problems of the Church , 1956.
Havran, M. J., The Catholics in Caroline England , 1962.
Tyacke, N., 'Puritanism, Arminianism and Counter-Revolution' in Origins of the
English Civil War , ed. C. Russell, 1973.
Hibbard, C. M., 'Early Stuart Catholicism: Revisions and Re-Revisions', J.M.H. ,
vol. 52, No. 1, March 1980.
2—
Puritanism and Puritan Protest
Laud's speech against Bastwick, Burton, Prynne in 1637 is in Harleian Misc.
Prynne,
W., Canterburie's doome , 1646.
Heath, Sir Robert, 'Speech . . . in the case of . . . Leighton in
the Star Chamber', Camden Soc. Misc. VII, 1875.
'Proceedings against Prynne', Camden Soc. N.S. 18, 1877.
Ball, T. Life of the Renowned Doctor Preston , ed. E. W. Harcourt, 1628.
Newton, A. P., The colonizing Activities of the Early Puritans ,
1914.
Kirby, E. W., William Prynne: A Study in Puritanism , 1931.
Haller, W., Tracts on Liberty in the Puritan Revolution , 3 vols, 1934.
Haller, W., The Rise of Puritanism , 1938.
Morgan, I., Prince
Charles's Puritan Chaplain , 1957.
Hill, J. E. C., Puritanism and Revolution , 1958.
Hill, J. E. C. (ed.), Brailsford, The Leveller Movement , 1961.
Gregg, P., Free-born John (a
biography of Lilburne), 1961.
Lamont, W., Marginal Prynne , 1963.
Hill, J. E. C., Society and Puritanism in pre-Revolutionary England , 1964.
Lamont, W., Godly Rule , 1969.
The Thomason Tracts, passim.
K—
Political Theory
Until recently, theoretical discussion, principles of political obligation,
etc. have attracted more attention than either the day-to-day happenings in
Parliament or the development of Parliament itself. Thus:
Gardiner, S. R., Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution
1628-1660 , 1889.
Figgis, J. N., The Theory of the Divine Right of Kings , 1896.
Tanner, J. R., English Constitutional Conflicts of the Seventeenth
Century, 1603-1689 , 1928.
Gooch, G. P., Political Thought in England from Bacon to Halifax , 1914/15.
Gooch, G. P., English Democratic Ideas in the Seventeenth Century
(2nd ed. edited Laski),
1927.
Tanner, J. R., Constitutional Documents of the Reign of James I
1603-1625 , 1930.
Allen, J. W., English Political Thought, 1603-1660 , 2 vols, 1938.
Sabine, G. H., A History of Political Theory , 1937.
Wormuth, F. D., The Royal Prerogative 1603-1649 , 1939.
Judson, M. A., The Crisis of the Constitution , 1949.
Zagorin, P., A History of Political Thought in the English Revolution , 1954.
Kenyon, J. P., The Stuart Constitution , Documents and Commentary, 1966.
Daly,
J., 'The Idea of Absolute Monarchy in 17th Century England', H.J. , 21, pp. 227-50, 1978.
L—
Parliament
1—
General
Journals of the House of Commons
Journals of the House of Lords
These Journals contain some speeches, procedural accounts, attendances, but are
scrappy and incomplete.
The Old Parliamentary History , compiled 1751-62.
The Parliamentary History of England , compiled by William Cobbett 1806-20.
Both these Parliamentary histories need supplementing and should be used with
caution, but they make good use of contemporary pamphlets, etc. to fill in gaps
in the Journals .
Firth, C. H., The House of Lords During the Civil War, 1603-1660 ,
1910.
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Coates, W. H., 'Some Observations on the Grand Remonstrance' J.M.H.
, 4, pp. 1-17, 1932.
Forester, J., The Arrest of the Five Members by Charles I
, 1860.
5—
General Discussion (See Also Essay Collections)
Notestein, W., 'The Winning of the Initiative by the House of Commons', Proc.
Brit. Acad. 11, pp. 125-75, 1924-5.
Willson, D. H. (ed.), The Parliamentary Diary of Robert Bowyer , 1941.
Hinton, R. M. K., 'The Decline of Parliamentary Government under Elizabeth and the Early Stuarts', C.H.J. , 13, pp. 116-32, 1957.
Mitchell, W. M., The Rise of the Revolutionary Party in the English
House of Commons 1603-1629 , 1957.
Johnson, R. C., 'Parliamentary Diaries of the Early Stuart Period', Bull.I.H.R. , 44, pp. 293-300, 1971.
Russell, C., 'Introduction' and 'Parliament and the King's
Finances' in The Origins of the English Civil War (infra) , 1973.
Hirst, D., The Representative of the People? , 1975.
Russell, C., 'Parliamentary History in Perspective:
1602-1629', History , 61, pp. 1-27, 1976.
Sharpe,
K., 'Parliamentary History 1603-1629: In or out of Perspective?' in Faction and
Parliament (infra) , 1978.
Russell, C., Parliaments and English Politics 1621-1629 ,
1979. This is the most comprehensive study of early Stuart Parliaments to have
appeared. With the work of Hirst and Sharpe it emphasizes both the new approach to Parliamentary
history and the importance of day-to-day happenings as opposed to the
theoretical approach represented by the works listed under K (above).
Important reviews are:
Underdown, D., Am.Hist.Rev. , 85, Feb. 1980.
Hirst, D., 'Parliament, Law and War in the 1620s' H.J. ,
23, 1980.
Woolrych, A., 'Court, Country and City Revisited', History , June 1980.
Hexter, J. H., 'The Not-So-New-Men', New York Review , Dec. 18, 1980.
M—
Government
1—
At the Centre
Aylmer, G. E., The King's Servants: the Civil Service of Charles I
1625-1642 , 1961, rev. 1974.
2—
In the Localities
The emphasis upon Parliament has been matched by an increasing
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Charles's own time, given rise to fruitful discussion. The most important
contributions are:
Harrington, J., Commonwealth
of Oceana , 1656.
Tawney, R. H.,
'Harrington's Interpretation of his Age', Proceedings of the British
Academy , 1941.
Tawney, R. H.,
'The Rise of the Gentry 1558-1640', Econ.Hist.Rev. , 11, 1941.
Stone, L., 'The Anatomy of the Elizabethan Aristocracy', Econ.Hist.Rev. , 13, 1948.
Roper, H. R.
Trevor-, 'The Elizabethan Aristocracy: An
Anatomy Anatomized', Econ.Hist.Rev. , 2nd. S. 3, 1951.
Stone, L., 'The Elizabethan Aristocracy, a restatement', Econ.Hist.Rev. , 2nd
S. 4, 1952.
Roper, H. R.
Trevor-, 'The Gentry 1540-1640',
Econ.Hist.Rev. Supplement , 1, 1953.
Tawney, R. H.,
'The Rise of the Gentry, a Postscript', Econ.Hist.Rev. , 2nd. S. 7, 1954.
Cooper, J.
P., 'The Counting of Manors', Econ.Hist.Rev.
, 2nd S. 8, 1956.
Zagorin, P., 'The Social Interpretation of the English Revolution',
J.Econ.Hist. , 19, 1959.
Hexter, J. H.,
'Storm Over the Gentry', in Re-appraisals in History , 1961.
Simpson, A., The Wealth of the Gentry 1540-1660 , 1961.
Stone, L., The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641 , 1965.
Stone, L., Social Change and Revolution in England
1540-1640 , 1965.
Coleman, D. C., 'The Gentry Controversy and the Aristocracy in
Crisis', History , 51, 1966.
Zagorin, P., The Court and the Country , 1969.
Christianson, P., 'The Causes of the English Revolution: A Revaluation', J. of
British Studies , 15, 1976.
Journal of Modern History , 49, No. 4, a special issue devoted to the English
Revolution, Dec. 1977.
Commentaries on the above in ibid. , March 1978.
Pocock, J. G. A. (ed.), The Political Works of James
Harrington , 1977.
For information on Lotteries, see
Ashton, J., A History of English Lotteries , 1893.
Ewen, C. L.,
Lotteries and Sweepstakes , 1932.
Q—
Biographies of People Close to Charles
1a—
King James I
Wilson, A., The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King
James the First , 1653.
Osborne, F., Some Traditionall
Memoyres on the Raigne of King
James the First , 1658.
