Contents
1
The Long Road to Civil War
1540–1650
2
The Making of the Pembrokes
1527–1546
3
A Countrey of Lands and Mannours
The World the Pembrokes Acquired
4
The Exercise of Noble Authority
The First Earl as Power Broker, 1549–1570
5
I’ll Be a Park and Thou Shalt Be My Deer
The Making of the Pembroke Arcadia, 1570–1586
6
Little Earths Kind of Paradise
Mary Pembroke’s Court at Wilton, 1586–1601
7
Two Incomparable Brethren
The Careers of William, Earl of Pembroke, and Philip, Earl of Montgomery, 1601–1630
8
So Mutable Are Worldly Things
Ancient Communities and the Threat of Modernity
9
Elizian Fields and Ayery Paradises
The Perfecting of Wilton, 1630–1640
10
A Sad and Miserable Condition We Are Fallen Into
The Catastrophe of Civil War, 1640–1650
Afterword
Hear This, O Ye that Swallow Up the Needy
The Destruction of Downland Society, 1650–1830