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Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables 1. Introduction: the good, the bad, and the godly? The laity and the established church 2. Conformity and the church courts, c. 1570-1642 3. The rhetoric of conformity, c. 1640-1642 4. Sir Thomas Aston and the campaign for the established church, c. 1640-1642 5. Parishioners, petitions, and the Prayer Book in the 1640s 6. Conclusion: laity, clergy, and conformity in post-Reformation England Appendix 1. Petitions for the Book of Common Prayer and episcopacy, 1640-1642 Appendix 2. Subscribing Cheshire parishes and townships, 1641 Appendix 3. Five subscribing Cheshire communities Bibliography.
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