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Notes PREFACE 1. Thomas Stoughton, A general treatise against poperie (Cambridge, 1598) pp.4-5. 2. Peter Clark, English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution (Hassocks, 1977) pp. 152-7. The Act Books of the Court of the Archdeacon of Canterbury, Cathedral Archives and Library Canter bury, are full of evidence of the cultural war of the 1570s between preachers and minstrels. A little of it is sampled in my The Religion of Protestants: the Church in English Society, 1559-1625 (Oxford, 1982) pp.206-7. 3. From Iconoclasm to Iconophobia: the Cultural Impact of the Second English Reformation (The Stenton Lecture, 1985) (Reading, 1986). 1 THE PROTESTANT NATION 1. C. A. Sneyd (ed.), A Relation of the Island of England About the Year 1500, O.S. XXXVII (Camden Society, 1847) pp. 20-1. John Major is quoted by Jenny Wormald in Journal of British Studies, XXIV (1985) 158. 2. Christopher Hill, 'The Protestant Nation', in Collected Essays II: Relig ion and Politics in 17th Century England (Brighton, 1986) pp. 28-9. 3. Michael McGiffert has drawn attention to the importance of this text for national self-consciousness in 'God's Controversy with Jacobean Eng land', in American Historical Review, LXXXVIII (1983) 1151-74; with further comments, critical of his original argument, in ibid., LXXXIX (1984) 1217-18. Calvin's exposition is in J. Owen (ed.), Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets, I (Edinburgh, 1846). 4. George H. Williams et al. (eds), Thomas Hooker: Writings in England and Holland, 1626-1633, Harvard Theological Studies XXVIII (Cam bridge, Mass., 1975) pp. 244-8. 5. John Aylmer, An Harborowe for faithfull and trewe subiectes ('Stras borowe' but recte London, 1559) Sig. P4v ; James Jones, Londons looking-back to Jerusalem (1635) p. 27; Latimer quoted by Hill in 'The Protestant Nation', p. 29; John Lyly, in E. Arber (ed.), Euphues and his England (1868) p.456; J. Bruce (ed.), Correspondence of Matthew Parker (Parker Society: Cambridge, 1853) pp. 418-19. 6. Thomas Cooper, The blessing of Japheth (1615) Epistle. 7. John Pocock writing on England, in O. Ranum (ed.), National Con sciousness, History, and Political Culture in Early-Modern Europe (Bal timore, 1975) pp. 98-105. 156 Notes 157 8. Patrick Wormald, 'Bede, the Bretwaldas and the Origins of the Gens Anglorum', in P. Wormald, D. Bullough and R. Collins (eds), Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society: Studies Presented to J. M. Wallace-Hadrill (Oxford, 1983) pp. 99-129. 9. John W. McKenna, 'How God Became an Englishman', in De Lloyd J. Guth and John W. McKenna (eds), Tudor Rule and Revolution: Essays for G. R. Elton from his American Friends (Cambridge, 1982) pp. 25-43; Joseph R. Strayer, 'France: the Holy Land, the Chosen People, and the Most Christian King', in T. K. Rabb and J. E. Seigel (eds), Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of E. H. Harbison (Princeton, 1969) pp. 15-16; John Barnie, War in Medieval Society: Social Values and the Hundred Years War 1337-99 (1974) especially chapter 4, 'Patriots and Patriotism'; A. K. McHardy, 'Liturgy and Propaganda in the Diocese of Lincoln During the Hundred Years War', in Stuart Mews (ed.), Religion and National Identity: Studies in Church History, XVIII (Oxford, 1982). pp. 215-27. 10. D. Napthine and W. A. Speck, 'Clergymen and Conflict 1660-1763', in W. J. Sheils (ed.), The Church and War Studies in Church History, XX (Oxford, 1983), pp. 231-62; Thomas Adams, Englands sicknesse, in Workes (1629) pp. 302-48. 11. Thomas Becon, The polecy of warre (1543) in J. Ayre (ed.), Early Works (Parker Society: Cambridge, 1843) pp. 203-61; William Whate ley, Charitable teares: or a sermon shewing how needefull a thing it is for every godly man to lament the common sinnes of our countrie (1623) pp. 244-5. 12. Richard Cust and Peter G. Lake, 'Sir Richard Grosvenor and the Rhetoric of Magistracy', in Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, LIV (1981) 40-53; Peter Clark, 'Thomas Scot and the Growth of Urban Opposition to the Early Stuart Regime', in Historical Journal, XXI (1978) 1-26. 13. Richard Eedes, Six learned and godly sermons (1604) Sig. B; Isaac Colfe, 1588. A Sermon preached on the queenes day (1588) Sig. B1; Maurice Kyffin, The blessednes of Brytaine, or a celebration of the queenes holyday (1587). 14. G. W. Bernard, 'The Pardon of the Clergy Reconsidered', in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, XXXVII (1986) 262; John M. King, 'The Godly Woman in Elizabethan Iconography', in Renaissance Quarterly, XXXVIII (1985) 41-84. C. M. D. Crowder, Unity, Heresy and Reform 1378-1460: the Conciliar Response to the Great Schism (1977) pp. 108-26. 15. J. Ayre (ed.), The Sermons of Edwin Sandys (Parker Society: Cam bridge, 1841) p. 418. 16. William Burton, Davids evidence (1592) p.147, quoted in Michael McGiffert, 'Covenant, Crown and Commons in Elizabethan Puritanism', in Journal of British Studies, xx (1980) 44. 17. David Loades, 'The Origins of English Protestant Nationalism', in Religion and National Identity, pp. 297-307. See also the essay in the same collection by Anthony Fletcher, 'The First Century of English Protestantism and the Growth of National Identity', pp. 309-17. Jenny 158 Notes Wormald, 'Gunpowder, Treason, and Scots', in Journal of British Studies, XXIV (1985) pp. 141-68. 18. Patrick Collinson, 'Truth and Legend: the Veracity of John Foxe's Book of Martyrs', in A. C. Duke and C. A. Tamse (eds), Clio's Mi"or: Historiography in Britain and the Netherlands: Britain and the Nether lands, VIII (Zutphen, 1985) pp. 31-54. See also J. F. Mozley, John Foxe and His Book (1940). 19. William Whateley, A bride bush, Or, a direction for ma"ied persons (1623), Preface. 20. William Haller, Foxe's Book of Martyrs and the Elect Nation (1963) is corrected by Katherine R. Firth, The Apocalyptic Tradition in Reforma tion Britain 1530-1645 (Oxford, 1979), Richard Bauckham, Tudor Apocalypse (Appleford, 1978) and V. Norskov Olsen, John Foxe and the Elizabethan Church (Berkeley, 1973). Foxe's singular importance as Luther's translator is implied by the prefaces to the English editions of A commentarie upon the epistle to the Galathians (1575), A commentarie upon the fiftene psalmes (1577) and Special and chosen sermons (1578). See also G. R. Elton, 'Luther in England', in Bernd Moeller (ed.), Luther in der Neuzeit (Gutersloh, 1983) p. 126. 21. G. J. R. Parry, A Protestant Vision: William Ha"ison and the Reformation of Elizabethan England (Cambridge, 1987). 22. Albert Peel, 'Congregational Martyrs at Bury St Edmunds. How Many?', in Transactions of the Congregational Historical Society, xv (1946) 64-7. For Brightman on Laodicea see William S. Lamont, Marginal Prynne 1600-1669 (1963) pp. 59-64 and his Godly Rule: Politics and Religion, 1603-60 (1969) pp. 49-52. See also Firth, Apocalyptic Tradi tion, p. 167. 23. Becon, Early Works, p. 239. On England and the Calvinist international see Patrick Collinson, 'England and International Calvinism, 1558-1640', in Menna Prestwich (ed.), International Calvinism, 1541-1715 (Oxford, 1985) pp. 197-223. 24. Thomas Cooper, The blessing ofJapheth (1615) p. 34; Thomas Cooper, Sathan transformed into an angell of light (1622), Sig. A3. 25. Becon, Early Works, p. 353; Whateley, Charitable teares, Sig. 02. For the effect of national danger see Carol Z. Wiener, 'The Beleaguered Isle. A study of Elizabethan and Early Jacobean Anti-Catholicism', in Past and Present no. 51 (May 1971) 27-62. 26. Thomas Sutton, Englands first and second summons (1616), p. 30; Whateley, Charitable tea res , Preface. See also John Stockwood, A sermon preached at Paules crosse on Barthelmew day being the 24 of August 1578 (n.d.); Henry Leslie, A warning for Israel in a sermon preached at Christ Church in Dublin the 30 of October 1625 (Dublin, 1626); James Cleland, Iacobs weI and Abbots conduit (1626) p. 6. 27. T. Twyne, A short and pithie discourse concerning the engendring, tokens and effects of all earthquakes in generall (1580). See also Anthony Munday, A view of sundry examples (1580); James Bisse, Two sermons (1581); Arthur Golding, A discourse upon the earthquake (1580). The Coventry comment will be found in R. W. Ingram (ed.), Records of the Early English Drama, III (Toronto, 1981) p. 294. On Halley's Comet see Notes 159 Thomas Jackson, Judah must into captivitie: six sermons (1622) p. 25 and Preface. On the sin of swearing see Edmund Bicknell, A swoord ageynst swearyng (1579). Swearing was identified as 'the most odious sin' in John Fosbroke, Englands warning by Israel and Judah (1617), bound with Six sermons delivered in the lecture at Kettering (1633) p. 32. 28. Whateley, Charitable teares, pp. 244-5. 29. For an account of English 'Hoseads' see McGiffert, 'God's Controversy with Jacobean England' (loc. cit.). 30. Quoted in Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants: the Church in English Society 1559-1625 (Oxford, 1982) p. 230. 31. McGiffert discusses the topos of Nineveh and Jonah, loco cit., pp. 1155-6. See John Hooper, Sermons upon Jonas (1550); T. W. [Thomas Wilcox?], A sermon preached at Paules Crosse on Sunday the thirde of November 1577 (1578), which uses Nineveh to shame and condemn England; John King, Lectures upon Ionas delivered at Yorke (Oxford, 1599), which applies Jonah as a relevant type but not Nineveh; and the Lutheran Johann Brenz, translated by Thomas Tynne as Newes from Ninive to Englande (1570). The ballad 'A warning to England, let London begin' (Huntington Library, HEH 18269) calls 'that happy citie Ninevie' 'a goodly myrour to London'. 32. Henoch Clapham, An epistle discoursing upon the present pestilence (1603); Henoch Clapham his demaunds and answers touching the pestil ence (1604); Henoch Clapham, Doctor Andros his Prosopeia answered (1605).