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⁷ Ollard, Image of the king, p. 30.

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³⁷ Reliquiae Baxterianae: or Mr. Richard Baxter's narrative of the most memorable passages of his life and times, faithfully publish’d from his own original manuscript by Matthew Sylvester (London 1696). Lamont demonstrates authoritatively that, far from faithful to his subject, Sylvester suppressed Baxter's interests in the millennium.Google Scholar

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⁴¹ . Jennifer Carter, ‘Law, courts and constitution’, Ibid.. pp. 71—93.

⁴² The absence of local studies perforce artificially focuses the history of Restoration England narrowly on Westminster politics. A fuller understanding of the later seventeenth century awaits the county histories and perspectives from the provinces which have so valuably illuminated the early Stuart period.

⁴³ J. R.Jones, ‘Parties and parliament’ in Jones (ed.), The restored monarchy pp. 48–70; quotation on p. 57.

⁴⁴ Howard Tomlinson, ‘Financial and administrative developments in England 1660–80’, Ibid.. pp. 94–117.

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