19 On the connection between Arminianism and Lincolnshire, see Emory Battis, Saints and Sectaries: Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian Controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Chapel Hill, 1962), 249-85; for the linkage between London, Middlesex and Arminianism, see Shumway, “Early New Haven,” and Isabel Calder, New Haven Colony (New Haven, 1934); on the Puritan “middle way,” the classical work is still Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana. The argument of this work was developed in scholarly detail by Congregational historians in the 19th century, in particular Henry Martin Dexter and Williston Walker. Their work in turn was generalized by Perry Miller. These historians showed little interest in the social or regional origins of the Puritan middle way. But if one compares the small number of religious writers whom Perry Miller drew together as The New England Mind, most came from Suffolk, Essex and Norfolk, and were educated at Cambridge.

20 Cressy, Literacy and the Social Order; Havelock Ellis, A Study of British Genius, new ed. (Boston, 1926), 25-36.

21 R. W. Ketton-Cremer, Norfolk in the Civil War (1969, Norwich, 1985), 20.