| Politics and ideology in England, 1603-1640 JP Sommerville Longman Publishing Group, 1986 | 544 | 1986 |
| Thomas Hobbes: political ideas in historical context JP Sommerville Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992 | 291 | 1992 |
| Royalists and patriots: Politics and ideology in England, 1603-1640 JP Sommerville Routledge, 2014 | 246 | 2014 |
| King James VI and I: political writings JP Sommerville Cambridge University Press, 1994 | 215 | 1994 |
| Absolutism and royalism JP Sommerville The Cambridge History of Political Thought 1450 (1700), 348-373, 1991 | 125 | 1991 |
| The'new art of lying': equivocation, mental reservation, and casuistry JP Sommerville | 123 | 1988 |
| James I and the divine right of kings: English politics and continental theory JP Sommerville The Mental World of the Jacobean Court 55, 70, 1991 | 96 | 1991 |
| From Suarez to Filmer: a reappraisal JP Sommerville The Historical Journal 25 (3), 525-540, 1982 | 70 | 1982 |
| Filmer:'Patriarcha'and Other Writings JP Sommerville Cambridge University Press, 1991 | 63 | 1991 |
| English and European political ideas in the early seventeenth century: revisionism and the case of absolutism JP Sommerville Journal of British Studies 35 (2), 168-194, 1996 | 62 | 1996 |
| Papalist political thought and the controversy over the Jacobean oath of allegiance JP Sommerville na, 2005 | 60 | 2005 |
| John Selden, the law of nature, and the origins of government JP Sommerville The Historical Journal 27 (2), 437-447, 1984 | 47 | 1984 |
| Richard Hooker, Hadrian Saravia, and the advent of the divine right of kings JP Sommerville History of political thought 4 (2), 229-245, 1983 | 40 | 1983 |
| Lofty science and local politics J Sommerville The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes, 246-272, 1996 | 39 | 1996 |
| The Royal Supremacy and Episcopacy ‘Jure Divino’, 1603–1640 JP Sommerville The journal of ecclesiastical history 34 (4), 548-558, 1983 | 39 | 1983 |
| King James VI and I: Political Writings I James, JP Sommerville Johann, 1994 | 38 | 1994 |
| History and theory: the Norman Conquest in early Stuart political thought JP Sommerville Political Studies 34 (2), 249-261, 1986 | 38 | 1986 |
| Hobbes, Selden, Erastianism, and the history of the Jews JP Sommerville Hobbes and history, 160-188, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| English and Roman Liberty in the monarchical republic of early Stuart England JP Sommerville The Monarchical republic of early modern England, 201-216, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| Leviathan and its Anglican context J Sommerville | 30 | 2007 |
