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INTRODUCTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2011

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The Hotham family   3

Hull and the East Riding in 1642   7

The Hothams at war   11

Arrest and trial   21

Provenance   32

Editorial decisions and practice   34

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109 BL, TT E61(16) Certain informations, 17–24 July 1643 (London, 1643), pp. 209–210.

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122 HHC: Hotham MS, U DDHO/1/42.

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154 HHC: Hotham MS, U DDHO/1/35.

155 HHC: Hotham MS, U DDHO/1/37–38.

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