Connecting centre and locality: Political communication in early modern England

Front Matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes On Contributors -- Abbreviations And Conventions -- Introduction -- 'a Dog, A Butcher, And A Puritan': The Politics Of Lent In Early Modern England -- The Lord Admiral, The Parliament-men And The Narrow Seas, 1625-27 -- Space, Place And Laudianism In Early Stuart Ipswich -- 'written According To My Usual Way': Political Communication And The Rise Of The Agent In Seventeenth-century England -- Diligent Enquiries And Perfect Accounts: Central Initiatives And Local Agency In The English Civil War Provincial 'levellers' And The Coming Of The Regicide In The South-west -- Sovereignty By The Book: English Corporations, Atlantic Plantations And Literate Order, 1557-1650 -- Local Expertise In Hostile Territory: State Building In Cromwellian Ireland -- News And The Personal Letter, Or The News Education Of Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl Of Huntingdon, 1660-71 -- The News Out Of Newgate After The 1715 Jacobite Rebellion -- Index Edited By Chris R. Kyle And Jason Peacey. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.