1“An Exhortation to Obedience,” Book of Homilies (1562). This was still read in Anglican churches in Virginia as late as the mid-17th century. For a helpful discussion see Terence R. Murphy, “The Early Tudor Concept of Order,” in Emilio C. Viano and Jeffrey H. Reiman, eds., The Police in Society (Lexington, Mass., n.d.), 75-87; Keith Wrightson, “Two Concepts of Order …,” in John Brewer and John Styles, eds., An Ungovernable People; The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (London, 1980), 21-46.
2 George Alsop, “A Character of the Province of Maryland” (1666), rpt. in Clayton C. Hall, ed., Narratives of Early Maryland, 340-87.