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Ian Atherton is Lecturer in History at Keele University. He has co-edited Norwich Cathedral: Church, City and Diocese 1096–1996 (1996) and written Ambition and Failure in Stuart England: The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore (1999). He has also published work on the manuscript circulation of news in seventeenth-century England. Toby Barnard is Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has written widely on early modern Irish history. His Cromwellian Ireland: English Government and Reform in Ireland 1649–1660 was reissued in paperback in 2000. Michael J. Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield. His previous publications include Parliamentary Taxation in Seventeenth Century England: Local Administration and Response (1994), The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558–1714 (1996) and State Formation in Early Modern England (2000). He is also co-editor (with John Walter) of Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in England and Ireland (2001) and (with David Armitage) of The British Atlantic World, 1500–1800 (2002). Colin Brooks is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. He has taught there since 1970 and has been Dean of the School of English and American Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. His research interests ... log in or subscribe to read full text