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The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661 The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640–1661 CARLA GARDINA PESTANA HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England Copyright©2004bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege Allrightsreserved PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica FirstHarvardUniversityPresspaperbackedition,2007 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Pestana,CarlaGardina. TheEnglishAtlanticinanageofrevolution,1640–1661/CarlaGardinaPestana. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN-13978-0-674-01502-9(cloth : alk.paper) ISBN-100-674-01502-9(cloth : alk.paper) ISBN-13978-0-674-02412-0(pbk.) ISBN-100-674-02412-5(pbk.) 1.GreatBritain—Colonies—America—History—17thcentury. 2.GreatBritain—Colonies—Administration—History—17thcentury. 3.America—History—To1810. 4.Plantationlife—AtlanticOceanRegion—History—17thcentury. 5.Plantationlife—America—History—17thcentury. 6.GreatBritain—History—PuritanRevolution,1642–1660—Influence. 7.GreatBritain—History—PuritanRevolution,1642–1660. 8.British—AtlanticOceanRegion—History—17thcentury. 9.AtlanticOceanRegion—Politicsandgovernment. 10.AtlanticOceanRegion—History. I.Title. E18.82.P472004 973.2′—dc22 2004052610 ToCodyandAnderson Contents Acknowledgments ix NotesonDatingandEditorialMethod xi Map:TheEnglishAtlantic,1640–1661 xii Introduction:Revolutionandthe EnglishAtlantic 1 Prologue:TheEnglishAtlanticin1640 14 1 TheChallengeofCivilWar 25 2 PuritanAscendancyandReligiousPolarization 53 3 RegicideandRoyalistRebellions 86 4 ReligiousPoliticsofa“PuritanRevolution” 123 5 FreeTradeandFreebornEnglishMen 157 6 LostLibertyandLaboringPeoplein theAtlanticWorld 183 Epilogue:TheEnglishAtlanticandthe LimitsofRestoration 213 Appendix1.PopulationFigures,1640 229 Appendix2.LondonPamphletsaboutNewEngland, 1641–1649 235 Notes 241 Index 331 Acknowledgments Itisagreatpleasuretothanktheinstitutionsandindividualswhohelpedto make this book possible. Research has been supported by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, through both the Summer Sti- pend program and the NEH-Huntington Library Fellowship; the Hunting- tonLibrary,forthatfellowshipaswellastheKembleandFletcherJonesfel- lowships;andtheAmericanPhilosophicalSocietySabbaticalYearFellowship. Ohio State University provided funding and release time from teaching du- ties in the College of Humanities’ Grant in Aid, Faculty Professional Leave, Special Research Assignment, and the Virginia Hull Research Award; in the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies’ research grant; and in a MershonCentergrant. ArchivistsandlibrarianshelpedmegettothesourcesIneededtowritethis book. These include the staff at the British Library, London; Bodleian Li- brary, University of Oxford; Friends House, London; the Public Records Office, Chancery Lane, London, and Kew; the Scottish Records Office, Ed- inburgh; Barbados Museum and Historical Society, Bridgetown; Bermuda Archives, Hamilton; the William Clark Library, Los Angeles; the Houghton Library, Harvard University; the Huntington Library, San Marino, Califor- nia; the John Carter Brown Library, Providence; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston; the New York Public Library; and the State Library of Ohio, Columbus. Special thanks must go to the Huntington Library, which has provided me with a scholarlyhomesincemydaysasagraduatestudentatU.C.L.A. Portionsofthismanuscripthavebeenpresentedatseminars,whereIhave received criticisms and suggestions from many generous colleagues. Thanks are due to participants in the Early American History Seminar (Huntington Library);EarlyModernBritishHistorySeminar(HuntingtonLibrary);Early Modern Seminar (Ohio State University); McNeil Center Seminar (Univer- sityofPennsylvania);SeminaronEarlyAmericanHistoryandCulture(Ohio State University); University of California Faculty Seminar (U.C. Santa ix
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