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Vaughan, Richard, 13

Vaughan, Robert, 76

Vennice, William, 190–91

Venus and Adonis
(Shakespeare), 120

Veronese, 96

village life and farming.
See also
copyhold system; custom of the manor

Civil War and, 242–59

early, 29–52, 56–57, 104–5

poverty and, after Civil War, 273–82

in 1630s, 163–69, 171–97

Villiers, Christopher.
See
Anglesey, Earl of

Villiers, George.
See
Buckingham, Duke of

Villiers, John.
See
Purbeck, Viscount, 146

Villiers, Mary (elder).
See
Buckingham, Mary Villiers, Countess of

Villiers, Mary (younger,
later
Duchess of Lennox), 228

marriage of, to Charles Herbert, 5, 155, 215, 218–19, 221, 223, 225

marriage of, to Duke of Lennox, 228–29, 235–36

Virgil, 100

 

Walers, Sir William, 251

Walsingham, Sir Francis, 96, 104

Walton, Izaak, 157

Warwick, Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of, 83

Warwick, John Dudley, 1st Earl of.
See
Northumberland, 1st Duke of

Webb, John, 213

Wentworth, Sir Thomas.
See
Strafford, Earl of

Wharton, Sir George, 136–37

Whitacre, Christopher, 186

White, Henry, 255

White, John, 178

White, Thomas (arrested 1556), 69

White, Thomas, of Potterne, 250

Whitemarsh, Walter, 178

William ap Thomas (Welsh ancestor), 10

William of Orange, 101

Williams, Edward, 255

Williams, Phillipp, 76–77

Willoughby, William, 256–57

Wilson, Thomas, 188, 189

Wilton estate and House, 1–7, 63, 148–49, 168, 172, 184

Arcadia and Sidneys and, 21–22, 82–100, 102, 111–12, 115–19, 121–22

changes in, under 4th Earl, 162, 199–201, 204, 208–14, 271

Civil War and, 241, 242, 256, 259, 261

custom of manor and, 43–50, 279–80

1st Earl and, 17–23, 45, 56–60, 66–68, 70

Wiltshire, 29–53, 62, 70, 85–87, 159–97, 241–44, 247–61, 273–82

Wiltshire Downs, 94, 276–80

Winchester, Bishop of, 74–75

Winchester, Marquess of, 16–17

Wise, Thomas, 183

Wishart, George, 12–13

Witt, Anne, 163

Woolf, Virginia, 101

Worcester, Earl of, 12, 64

Wriothesley, Sir Thomas, 26–27

Wroth, Lady Mary, 140

Wyatt, Thomas, 14, 69, 79

 

Xenophon, 59

 

Yong, William, 13

 

Zouche, Francis, 76

F
irst, I want to thank Steven Hobbs, the Wiltshire County archivist, for his time and expertise, and for the patience he showed while I was researching this book. His enthusiasm for discovering key documents in the enormous and marvellously rich collections he has under his care never flagged. It has been the greatest of pleasures to work with him.

The staff of Cambridge University Library, the National Archives, the House of Lords Journal Office, the British Library, Hatfield House, and Sheffield Archives have all been equally generous and professional with the documents in their care.

In Wiltshire, Alison J. Maddock and John Chandler both steered me toward important changes of view, and Rosalind Conklin Hays, the co-editor of the Wiltshire collection in the Records of Early English Drama series, generously made available her preliminary transcriptions from the Wiltshire Quarter Sessions Rolls, in particular the libel sung by Jane Norrice of Stoke Verdon (A1/110/1631E no 151), which appears here on Chapter 8.

The volumes published each year by the Wiltshire Record Society, including the key document for this book,
Surveys of the Manors of Philip, earl of Pembroke and Montgomery 1631–2
, edited by Eric Kerridge in 1953, have been invaluable, none more than the brilliant act of research and editorship performed by Dr. Joseph Bettey in his
Wilt
shire Farming in the Seventeenth Century
, published by the Record Society in 2005. There is no more remarkable account of rural England on the cusp of the medieval and the modern. For membership details and past volumes, please contact the Honorary Secretary, Wiltshire Record Society, c/o Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Cocklebury Road, Chippenham SN15 3QN, England

At Wilton House itself, the Earl of Pembroke, Chris Rolfe, Ros Liddington, Nigel Bailey, David Colgrave, and Charlotte Spender have all gone well out of their way to help me, and I am very grateful to them all.

Katherine Duncan-Jones, Paula Henderson, Susan Koslow, the late Sir Oliver Millar, Alistair Laing, Barbara Ravelhofer, Robert Sackville-West, Alexandra Samarine, and Kim Wilkie have all in their different ways set me on better and truer paths.

I am grateful, as ever, to Caroline Dawnay, Zoe Pagnamenta, Hugh van Dusen, Vera Brice, Jane Beirn, Helen Ellis, Sammia Rafique, and above all Susan Watt for making the complex and drawn-out task of writing books like this into the pleasure it has been.

Jacket painting by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, By permission of the Earl of Pembroke

Jacket design by Abby Weintraub