Acknowledgments; The Union of the Crowns, the Public Sphere and Great Expectations; Chapter 1 Militant Aspiration and British Identity in Jacobean Britain, 1603-18; Chapter 2 Aspiration Deferred: the Spanish Match, the Outbreak of the Thirty Years' War and Domestic Political Polarization, 1619-29; Chapter 3 The British Soldier Abroad: Robert Monro, Militant Protestantism and the Personal Rule of Charles I; Chapter 4 The Protestant Cause and the British Context of Covenanter Propaganda, 1637-40; Chapter 5 Long Parliament, Britain and the Protestant Cause, 1641; Chapter 6 The Irish Rebellion, the Palatinate and the Descent into Civil War, 1641-2;.