Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. List of Abbreviations xii
6. Note on the Text xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. Part I: Reformation, Rivalry and Remembrance
9. 1 The Victorian Invention of Anglicanism and its Reception 21
10. 2 The Casket Letters: Controversy and Conspiracy 43
11. 3 The Battle of Adderley Aisle and Family Chapels in Post-Reformation England 73
12. Part II: Catholics, Puritans and Conformists
13. 4 ‘Trapped in the Mental World of Robert Parsons’: Religious Politics, Blame and the Essex Rising of 1601 99
14. 5 The Strange Case of the Boy of Bilson: Catholics, Puritans, Exorcists and Politics in Post-Reformation England 122
15. 6 Bishop Lewes Bayly – Prelate as Puritan? 142
16. 7 Growing Opposition? Puritan Cheshire in Laudian London: the Diary of Samuel Torshell 1638–9 160
17. Part III: Publics and the Drama of Politics in the Post-Reformation
18. 8 Weighed in a Balance: Strategising Public Politics in Anglo–Dutch Affairs, 1617–19 189
19. 9 At the Heart of a Knot of Villainy: Dr Lambe and the Purbeck Affair 213
20. 10 The Literary Lake 232
21. Part IV: Structures of Post-Revolutionary Politics
22. 11 The Nature of ‘the Powers that Be’: Politico-Religious Thought 1637–53 and its Antecedents 253
23. 12 ‘Yet God is Good to Israel’: Nehemiah Wallington Reads (and Writes) the News 280
24. 13 John Lilburne, the People and the English Revolution 304
25. 14 Revisionism, Partisanship and the Structure of Early Modern British Imperial Culture 323
26. Bibliography of Peter Lake’s Works 356
27. Index 368
28. Tabula Gratulatoria 388
29. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 389