Venning - An alternative history of Britain: the English Civil War

Thanks are due as usual to my commissioning editor at Pen and Sword, Phil Sidnell, for his support for this series and advice on the book. Also to Ting Baker and Matt Jones for their help with the editing, and to the Cromwell Association for discussions and articles which helped to add depth to my knowledge of Cromwells military career.

Primary sources

Bodleian Library Oxford: Carte Mss.

Clarendon Mss. no. 24.

Tanner Mss. no 60.

British Library: Additional Mss. 18981, 18982, 24465, 25465, 31116.

Harleian Mss.

Sloane Mss.

Thomason Tracts.

Historical Manuscripts Commission: Portland Mss.

House of Commons: Commons Journals, vols 25.

House of Lords: Lords Journal, vols 46.

National Archives: Committee of Both Kingdoms: Day Book.

National Archives: Committee of Both Kingdoms: Letter Book.

National Archives: Committee of Both Kingdoms: State Papers, vol 16.

Paris: Archives du Ministre des Affaires Etrangres: Correspondence Politique: Angleterre.

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: 16413, ed. W Douglas Hamilton (Longmans 1887).

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: 1644, ed. Hamilton (Longmans 1888).

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: 16445, ed. Hamilton (Longmans 1890).

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: 16457, ed. Hamilton (Longmans 1891).

Calendar of State Papers Venetian: 16402, ed. Allen Hinds (HMSO 1924).

Calendar of State Papers Venetian: 16423, ed. Allen Hinds (HMSO 1925).

Calendar of State Papers Venetian: 16437, ed. Allen Hinds (HMSO 1926).

The English Revolution, vol I: Fast Sermons to Parliament (Cornmarket Press, Oxford 1970).

The English Revolution: Newsbooks, ed. Robin Jeffs (Cornmarket Press Oxford 1971).

The English Revolution: Newsbooks Vol 1: Oxford Royalist vol 1: Mercurius Aulicus, January August 1643 (1971).

The English Revolution: Newsbooks Vol 2: Oxford Royalist vol 2: Mercurius Aulicus, September March 1644 (1971).

The English Revolution: Newsbooks Vol 3: Oxford Royalist vol 3: Mercurius Aulicus, April 1644 March 1645 (1971).

The English Revolution: Newsbooks Vol 4: Oxford Royalist vol 4: Mercurius Aulicus, April September 1645 (1971); Mercurius Rusticus, May 1643 March 1644; Mercurius Anti-Britannicus, August 1645; Mercurius Academicus, December 1645 March 1646.

Letters and Papers of Robert Baillie , ed. D. Laing, 3 vols (Edinburgh 18412).

Baxter, Richard Reliquiae Baxterianae .

Bruce, J., ed, The Verney Papers: Notes of Proceedings in the Long Parliament, temp Charles I, from memoranda by Sir Ralph Verney (Camden Society 1845).

Carte, Thomas, ed., Collection of Original Papers (London 1839).

Earl of Clarendon (Edward Hyde), History of the Great Rebellion , ed. W. D. Macray (Oxford 1888).

State Papers Collected by the Earl of Clarendon , ed. R. Scope and T. Monkhouse, 3 vols (Oxford 176786).

The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell , ed. W. C. Abbott, vol 1 (Cambridge Massachusetts 1937).

Cooper, Trevor, ed., The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia During the English Civil War (Woodbridge 2001).

The Diary of Sir Simonds DEwes , ed. Willson Coates (1942).

The Diary of Sir Simonds DEwes , ed. Wallace Notestein (New Haven, US, 1925).

Memorials of the English Civil War: Correspondence of the Fairfax Family , ed. R. Bell, 2 vols (1849).

Gardiner, S. G., ed., Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution .

Gilbert, J. N., ed., History of the Confederate War in Ireland by Richard Bellings , 7 vols (Paris 1882-91).

P. Gordon of Ruthven, Short Abridgement of Englands Distemper (Spalding Club, Aberdeen 1842).

Haller, W., ed., Tracts on Liberty in the Puritan Revolution, 163847 , 3 vols (New York 1934).

The Autobiography of Lord Herbert of Cherbury , ed. S. Lee (London 1886).

Hopton, Sir Ralph, Bellum Civile (1902 edition).

Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson (London 1806).

The English Levellers , ed. Andrew Sharp (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought: Cambridge UP, 1998).

The Memoirs of Major-General Ludlow 16251672 , ed. C. Firth (Clarendon Press 1894).

The Journal of Sir Samuel Luke , ed. I. G. Philip, 3 vols (Oxfordshire Record Society, 195053).

Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Memoirs of William, Duke of Newcastle and his Wife Margaret , ed. Sir C. Firth (London 1907; also the 1913 edition pub. by J. M. Dent).

The Oglander Memoirs: Extracts from the Manuscripts of Sir John Oglander, Knight , ed. W. Long (1888).

Petrie, Sir Charles, ed., The Letters, Speeches and Proclamations of Charles I (Cassell 1935).

Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers , ed. Eliot Warburton, 3 vols (London 1849).

Rushworth, J., Historical Collections , 8 vols (London 16591700).

Spalding Memorialls of the Troubles in Scotland , ed. J. Stuart, 2 vols (Spalding Club Aberdeen 18312).

Sprigge, Joshua, Anglia rediviva being the history of the army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, 1647 (reprint Oxford 1849).

Vicars, J., Englands Parliamentary Chronicle , 3 vols (16436): vol 1, Jehovah-Jireh. God in the Mount ; vol 2, Gods Ark overtopping the Worlds Waves ; vol 3, The Burning Bush not consumd .

Walker, Sir Edward, Historical Discourses upon several occasions , ed. H. Clopton (1705).

Warwick, Sir Philip, Memoirs of the Reign of Charles I (1702, reprint Edinburgh 1813).

Webb, J., Memorials of the civil war as it affected Herefordshire and the adjacent counties , ed. T. N. Webb, 2 vols (1879).

Whitelocke, Bulstrode, Memorials (Oxford 1853).

Wiltshire Record Office: Mss. 413/444.

Wishart, George, Memoirs of Montrose (London 1893).

Secondary sources

Abell, H., Kent and the Great Civil War (Ashford 1901).

Adair, John, Cheriton 1644: The Campaign and the Battle (Kineton 1973).

Adair, John, Roundhead General: the Campaigns of Sir William Waller (Sutton 1997).

Adamson, John, The Noble Revolt: the Overthrow of Charles I (Phoenix 2007).

Atkin, H. and W. Loughlin, Gloucester in the Civil War (Tempus 1992).

Barrett, John, Cavalier Generals: King Charles I and his Commanders in the English Civil War 16426 (Pen and Sword 2004).

Bayley, A. R., The Great Civil War in Dorset 16421660 (Taunton 1910).

Braddick, M., Gods Fury, Englands Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars (Allen Lane 2008).

Brailsford, H. N. and C. Hill, The Levellers and the English Revolution (Cresset 1961).

Brammer, R., Winceby and the Battle (Boston, Lincs, 1994).

Bruce, J. and D. Masson, eds, The Quarrel between the Earl of Manchester and Oliver Cromwell; An Episode of the English Civil War (Camden Society, new series, vol 12, 1875).

Broxap, E., The Great Civil War in Lancashire (Manchester 1910).

Carpenter, S. D., Military Leadership in the English Civil War 164251 (London 2005).

Carte, Thomas, The Life of James, Duke of Ormonde (University of Ireland Press 1851).

Carlton, Charles, Charles I: The Personal Monarch (Routledge 1983).

Coate, M., Cornwall in the Great Civil War and Interregnum 16421660 (Truro 1963 edition).

Cressy, David, England On Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 16402 (Oxford 2006).

Cust, Richard, Charles I: A Political Life (Longmans 2005).

Cust, Richard and Ann Hughes, The English Civil War (London 1997).

Edgar, F. T. R., Sir Ralph Hopton: The Kings Man in the West 164253 (Oxford UP 1968).

Farr, D. N., Major John Lambert 16191684 (2003).

Farrow, W., The Great Civil War in Shropshire (Shrewsbury 1926).

Firth, C. H., Cromwells Army: A History of the English Soldier during the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate (Greenhill Books reprint 1992).

Firth C. H., and G. Davies, The Regimental History of Cromwells Army , 2 vols (Oxford 1940).