Richard Cust is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of BirminghamPeter Lake is Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

'It [Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion] broadens our understanding of the ideology and material culture of the pre–Civil War gentry, and it shows how, even in counties with long efforts at consensus, tensions'Journal of British Studies

• IntroductionPart I: The Cheshire gentry and their world1 The culture of dynasticism2 The culture of the Cheshire gentleman3 The governance of the shirePart I conclusionPart II: The Personal Rule and its problems 4 Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s5 Puritans and ecclesiastical governmentPart II conclusionPart III: The crisis, 1641–426 Petitioning and the search for settlement7 The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?8 Cheshire and the outbreak of civil warPart III conclusionBibliography of manuscript sourcesIndex

Richard Cust is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of BirminghamPeter Lake is Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

'It [Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion] broadens our understanding of the ideology and material culture of the pre–Civil War gentry, and it shows how, even in counties with long efforts at consensus, tensions'Journal of British Studies

• IntroductionPart I: The Cheshire gentry and their world1 The culture of dynasticism2 The culture of the Cheshire gentleman3 The governance of the shirePart I conclusionPart II: The Personal Rule and its problems 4 Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s5 Puritans and ecclesiastical governmentPart II conclusionPart III: The crisis, 1641–426 Petitioning and the search for settlement7 The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?8 Cheshire and the outbreak of civil warPart III conclusionBibliography of manuscript sourcesIndex

Richard Cust is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of BirminghamPeter Lake is Distinguished Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

'It [Gentry Culture and the Politics of Religion] broadens our understanding of the ideology and material culture of the pre–Civil War gentry, and it shows how, even in counties with long efforts at consensus, tensions'Journal of British Studies

• IntroductionPart I: The Cheshire gentry and their world1 The culture of dynasticism2 The culture of the Cheshire gentleman3 The governance of the shirePart I conclusionPart II: The Personal Rule and its problems 4 Cheshire politics in the 1620s and 1630s5 Puritans and ecclesiastical governmentPart II conclusionPart III: The crisis, 1641–426 Petitioning and the search for settlement7 The search for the centre as partisan enterprise?8 Cheshire and the outbreak of civil warPart III conclusionBibliography of manuscript sourcesIndex