Edward Vallance - Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 1658–1727

Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 16581727

Politics, culture and society in early modern Britain

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Loyalty, memory and public opinion in England, 16581727

EDWARD VALLANCE

Manchester University Press

Copyright Edward Vallance 2019

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Contents

I would like to thank the following people and organisations for their help in writing this book. A number of people have very generously shared references with me, including Ed Legon, Blair Worden, Jason Peacey, Philip Loft and Gavin Robinson. My Roehampton colleague Andrew Wareham gave me some very helpful pointers on the Hearth Tax and related records. Katrina Navickas made a very useful suggestion in relation to OCR software. I am also grateful to Ed and Blair, along with Tony Claydon, Brian Cowan and Mark Knights, for sharing their work with me, including work-in-progress. Mike Braddick, Simon Dixon, John Spurr and Brodie Waddell provided me with insightful comments on draft chapters and articles. I am particularly grateful to Mark Knights for his generosity in both sharing his own work (published and unpublished) on addressing, and in commenting on draft chapters of mine which have come his way. Very helpful feedback has also been given by seminar, workshop and conference audiences in Boston, London, Lyon, Paris, Portland, Toulouse, Erfurt, Oxford and Reading. Initial research in to this topic was supported by the award of a British Academy Small Research Grant. The University of Roehampton provided two terms of research leave which were critical to enabling me to complete this project. Access to Nouvelles Ordinaires de Londres at the Beinecke Library, Yale, was assisted through the award of a Lewis Walpole Library Fellowship. I would like to thank the many librarians and archivists who have assisted me with my research, particularly Dr Joan Unwin for sharing her expertise on the Cutlers Company. I am grateful to the Northumberland Estates for permission to consult and quote from their papers. Some portions of permission to reproduce them here. I would like to thank the series editors at Manchester University Press for their understanding as delivery deadlines were shifted, and for their support through the writing process. Finally, I would like to thank the person who helped me most in completing this book, my wife Linnie. Writing a book is a stressful and time-consuming exercise. People involved in writing a book are not always the most fun to be around. I am indebted to Linnie for her support, patience, love and understanding while I bashed away at book number four.

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