Quarrel with the king
Subtitle: the story of an English family on the high road to civil war
By: Adam Nicolson.
Contributors: Nicolson, Adam, 1957-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780061154317
Subjects: Herbert, William, -- Sir, -- 1507-1570 -- Family; Herbert family; Nobility -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- History -- Charles I, 1625-1649
Genres: Biography.
Description: Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history -- from the 1520s through 1650 -- Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three generations of change, ambition, resistance, and war. With vivid color and fascinating detail, acclaimed historian Adam Nicolson recounts the story of a century-long power struggle between England's richest family and the English Crown -- a fascinating study of divided loyalties, corruption, rights and privilege, and all the ambiguities involved in the exercise and maintenance of power and status. - Publisher.
Notes: A version of this book appeared in the UK under the title: The Earls of paradise.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The long road to civil war, 1540-1650; title: The making of the Pembrokes, 1527-1546; title: A countrey of lands and mannours : the world the Pembrokes acquired; title: The exercise of noble authority : the first Earl as power broker, 1549-1570; title: I'll be a park and thou shalt be my deer : the making of the Pembroke Arcadia, 1570-1586; title: Little earths kind of paradise : Mary Pembroke's court at Wilton, 1586-1601; title: Two incomparable brethren : the careers of William, Earl of Pembroke, and Philip, Earl of Montgomery, 1601-1630; title: So mutable are worldly things : ancient communities and the threat of modernity; title: Elizian fields and ayery paradises : the perfecting of Wilton, 1630-1640; title: A sad and miserable condition we are fallen into : the catastrophe of civil war, 1640-1650; title: Afterword : Hear this, o ye that swallow up the needy : the destruction of downland society, 1650-1830