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ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW EDITED BY G.W. BERNARD University of Southampton AND MARTIN CONWAY Balliol College, Oxford ASSISTANT EDITOR ANNA BAYMAN VOLUME CXxIll 2008 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Tapei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw with associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © Oxford University Press 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, OI transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or a licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE ISSN 0013-8266 Cos Printer, Singapore CONTENTS VOLUME CXxXIlIl ARTICLES The De Obitu Willelmi: Propaganda for the Anglo-Norman Succession, 1087-88? Katherine Lack Robert de Sigillo: An Unruly Head of the Royal Scriptorium in the 1120s and 1130s. Nicholas Karn Master Stephen Langton, Future Archbishop of Canterbury: The Paris Schools and Magna Carta. John W. Baldwin The Unoriginality of Tito Livio Frulovisi’s Vita Henrici Quinti. dD J < David Rundle 1109 The Intervention of the Crown and the Effectiveness of the Sheriff in the Execution of Judicial Writs, c.1355-1530. Pamela Nightingale Thomas More on Inquisitorial Due Process. Henry Ansgar Kelly Taking Up Office in Elizabethan Connacht: The Case of Sir Richard Bingham. Rory Rapple The Causes of the Thirty Years War 1618-48. Peter H. Wilson ‘In the Power of the State’: Mr Anys’s Project and the Tobacco Colonies, 1626-1628. Thomas Cogswell Catholic Loyalism in Early Stuart England. Michael Questier The Road to Farndon Field: Explaining the Massacre of the Royalist Women at Naseby. Mark Stoyle The Youth and Education of Christopher Wren. C.S.L. Davies Citizens, Soldiers and Urban Culture in Restoration England. Phil Withington The Price and Quality of Wine and Conspicuous Consumption in England 1646-1759. Motoko Hori Gender and the Development of Forensic Science: A Case Study. Julia Rudolph An Incorporating Union? British Politicians and Ireland 1800- 1830. K. Theodore Hoppen The Pirate, the Governor and the Secretary of State: Aliens, Police and Surveillance in Early Nineteenth-Century Gibraltar. Stephen Constantine EHR, exxiii. 505 (Dec. 2008) The Chinese Myth of Universal Kingship and Commissioner Lin Zexu’s Anti-Opium Campaign of 1839. Luke S. K. Kwong ‘Local Self-Government Is True Socialism’: Joshua Toulmin Smith, the State and Character Formation. Ben Weinstein ‘Imperium in Imperio’: Irish Episcopal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Colin Barr Industry, Class and Society: A Historiographic Reinterpretation of Michel Chevalier. Michael Drolet ‘The Elimination of Corrupt Practices in British Elections’? Reassessing the Impact of the 1883 Corrupt Practices Act. Kathryn Rix Politics and the Medical Hero: A.J. Cronin’s The Citadel. Ross McKibbin Deterrence and the European Balance of Power: The Field Force and British Grand Strategy, 1934-1938. B. J. C. McKercher Anglo-Soviet Naval Armaments Diplomacy Before the Second World War. Joseph A. Maiolo The British Government and the South African Neutrality Crisis, 1938-39. Andrew Stewart NOTES AND DOCUMENTS Andrea Sapiti: His Origins, and his Register as a Curial Proctor. Barbara Bombi Alice Perrers and John Salisbury. W. Mark Ormrod The Narrow Margin of Criticality: The Question of the Supply of 100-Octane Fuel in the Battle of Britain. Gavin Bailey REVIEW-ARTICLES Reconfiguring Indian History. David Washbrook Histories of Africa, Old and New. Richard Reid Consolidatingg the Empire: New Views on Ottoman History, 1453-1839. Christine Woodhead Between the Bear and the Dragon: Nixon, Kissinger and U.S. Foreign Policy in the Era of Détente. Matthew Jones EHR, cxxiii. 505 (Dec. 2008) ROOK REVIEWS 160, 412, 687, 988, 1284, 1505 OTHER PUBLICATIONS 271, I102 NOTICES OF PERIODICALS AND OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS ANNUAL INDEX EHR, cxxiii. 505 (Dec. 2008)