Westminster 1640–60: A royal city in a time of revolution

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Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1: The eye of the storm? Westminster, 1640–42

BEFORE AND AFTER THE SHORT PARLIAMENT

THE LONG PARLIAMENT

‘THE PERSECUTION IS SO FEARFULY CRUEL AND HOT’: ROMAN CATHOLICS IN WESTMINSTER

RELIGIOUS CHANGE AND RADICALISM

PUBLIC ORDER, THE TRAINED BANDS AND THE ‘DECEMBER DAYS’

THE AFTERMATH OF THE KING’S DEPARTURE

CONCLUSION

Chapter 2: ‘The perpetual marching of troops, the ceaseless noise of drums and trumpets’: the militarization of Westminster

MILITARIZATION in the 1640s

THE MILITARY IN WESTMINSTER, 1649–60

THE MILITARY AND WESTMINSTER SOCIETY

Chapter 3: Westminster and the state: sites and rites, 1642–60

SPECTACLE AND DISPLAY: ECLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS

SPECTACLE AND DISPLAY: SECULAR BUILDINGS AND SPACES

STATE ACCOMODATION

CONCLUSION

Chapter 4: Allegiance and government, 1643–60

THE PEACE PETITIONS

MALIGNANTS AND DELINQUENTS

GOVERNMENT BY COMITTEE: THE LIMITS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT?

THE PURGING OF WESTMINSTER?

NEGOTIATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT

INCORPORATION: A ‘CITY’ AT LAST?

POLITICS AND THE ABBEY

CONCLUSION

Chapter 5: Fashionable society in ‘these our cloudy days’

THE 1640S: WARTIME DISRUPTION

FASHIONABLE SOCIETY UNDER THE REPUBLIC AND PROTECTORATE

ELITE SOCIABILITY, PUBLIC SPACES AND THE LIMITS OF FASHIONABLE SOCIETY

CONCLUSION

Chapter 6: Religion, politics and society in revolutionary Westminster

RELIGIOUS REFORMS

THE LIMITS OF REFORM

RELIGION AND THE COMUNITY IN 1650S WESTMINSTER

CONCLUSION

Conclusion

Bibliography: selected manuscript sources

Index