⁶ See Leah Marcus, Puzzling Shakespeare: Local Reading and Its Discontents, The New Historicism, 6 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1988), 51–105; Williams, The French Fetish, 189–93.

⁷ See Gregerson, ‘French Marriages and the Protestant Nation’.

⁸ Thomas Cogswell, The Blessed Revolution: English Politics and the Coming of War, 1621–1624 (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1989).

⁹ In one famous formulation, seventeenth-century radicals discounted the entire period between the Conquest and the fall of Charles I as a foreign occupation, a ‘Norman Yoke’ finally doffed by Parliamentarians committed to contractual theory of government. See Christopher Hill, ‘The Norman Yoke’, in his Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the Seventeenth Century (1958; rpt. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 1997).