6o The Sa'cnteenth Century (1603 -1714)

sermons preached in parliament, an unexpected source.349 The
skills of influence used to maintain the war party are analysed
by Underdown,350 A topic on which much more needs still to
be written has at least been well opened in various studies of
the manner in which the parliament administered its share of
the realm. Pennington deals with the committee of finance;351
with Roots' assistance he describes one of the local instruments,
a task performed by Everitt for another region.352 Everitt has
also produced two exemplary' general analyses of particular
regions in the years of disturbance,353 while Howell performs a
similar service for a town caught in all the cross-currents of the
time (including the Scots).354

Two new studies of Oliver Cromwell have not replaced the
old masterpiece by Firth. Paul emphasizes the protector's re-
ligion, while Ashley has recanted his earlier view which saw in
Cromwell the prototype of twentieth-century dictators.355 He
has also written some useful brief biographies of Oliver's
comrades in arms.356 Trevor-Roper broke new ground in a

341 Hugh R. Trevor-Roper, "The fast sermons in the Long Parlia-
ment*, Feiling Ft (n. 130), 85-138.

sse D. E. Underdown, Tarty management and the recruiter elections
1645 - 1648', EHR 83 (1968), 235-64.

m Donald H. Pennington, *The accounts of the kingdom', Tawney
Ft (n. 126), 182-203.

m Donald H. Pennington and Ivan Roots, The Committee at Stafford*
Manchester UP: 1957. Pp. bcxxiii, 389.-Alan M. Everitt, The
County Committee of Kent in the Civil War. Leicester: Dept of
English Local History, Occasional Papers 9: 1957. Pp. 53. Rev:
EHR 73, i57ff.

IM Alan M. Everitt, The Community of Kent in the Great Rebellion,
1640-1660. Leicester UP: 1966. Pp. 356, Rev: EHR 83, 172^;
Ec&R* 20, i67ff, - Idem, Suffolk and the Great Rebellion, 1640 -1660.
Suffolk Record Soc.: 1960. Pp. 141. Rev: EHR 77, 775^

184 Roger Howell, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution. O:
Clarendon: 1967. Pp. xiv, 397, Rev: EHR 83, 84of.; EcHR* 20,

557E
*" Robert S. Paul, The Lord Protector: religion and politics in the life of

Oliver Cromwell. L: Lutterworth Press: 1955. Pp. 438. - Maurice

Ashley, The Greatness of Oliver CromwclL L: Hodder & Stoughton:

1957- Pj>- 3&2-
*** Maurice Ashley, CromwelFs Generals. L: Gape: 1954. Pp. 256,