Tea will be served from 4.45

Suggested preparatory reading:

P. Withington, The Politics of Commonwealth: Citizens and Freemen in Early Modern England (2005), P. Collinson, ‘The Monarchical Republic of Queen Elizabeth I’ in his Elizabethans (2003), 31-58; J. F. McDiarmid (ed.), The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England (2007), esp. ‘Introduction’.