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Quarrel with the king : the story of an English family on the high road to civil war / Adam Nicolson.

by Nicolson, Adam, 1957-

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Herbert, William, Sir, 1507-1570 -- Family.

Herbert family.

Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography.

Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649.

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9780061154317 (hardcover)

0061154318 (hardcover)

ix, 306 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), geneal. table, maps ; 24 cm.

A version of this book appeared in the UK under the title: The Earls of paradise.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-292) and index.

The long road to civil war, 1540-1650 -- The making of the Pembrokes, 1527-1546 -- A countrey of lands and mannours : the world the Pembrokes acquired -- The exercise of noble authority: the first Earl as power broker, 1549-1570 -- I'll be a park and thou shalt be my deer : the making of the Pembroke Arcadia, 1570-1586 -- Little earths kind of paradise : Mary Pembroke's Court at Wilton, 1586-1601 -- Two incomparable brethren : the careers of William, Earl of Pembroke, and Philip, Earl of Montgomery, 1601-1630 -- So mutable are worldly things: ancient communities and the threat of modernity -- Elizian fields and ayery paradises : the perfecting of Wilton, 1630-1640 -- A sad and miserable condition we are fallen into: the catastrophe of civil war, 1640-1650 -- Hear this, o ye that swallow up the needy : the destruction of downland society, 1650-1830.

Nicolson, Adam, 1957- Earls of paradise.

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