Plates 1, 3a, 5b, 5c are reproduced by courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery,
London; plate 2a by permission of Westminster Cathedral Treasury; plates 2b, 4a,
5a, 7b, 8a, 10, 11a, 11b, 12, 15, 16, 17a, 17b by permission of the Bodleian Library,
University of Oxford; plate 3b by permission of the Victoria & Albert Museum,
London; plate 4b by courtesy of the Marquess of Salisbury and Courtauld Institute
of Art; plates 6, 8b are copyright British Museum; plates 7a, 9a are reproduced by
permission of Country Life Picture Library; plate 9b by permission of Oxfordshire
Photographic Archive; plate 13 by permission of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cam-
bridge; plate 14 by permission of the Master & Fellows of Magdalene College,
Cambridge.

Maps 1, 2, and table 5 are reproduced by permission of Dr Joan Thirsk, Dr Peter
Bowden, and Cambridge University Press from Joan Thirsk (ed.), Agrarian History
of England and Wales, iv. 1500-1640 ( Cambridge, 1967); tables 1-4 by permis-
sion of Professor Steve Rappaport and Cambridge University Press from Steve Rappaport
, Worlds within Worlds ( Cambridge, 1987); map 6 by permission of Dr
Michael Bush and Edward Arnold (publisher) Limited, from Michael Bush, The
Government Policy of Protector Somerset ( London, 1975); maps 7 and 8 by permis-
sion of Oxford University Press from T. W. Moody et al. (eds.), New History of
Ireland, ix. Maps ( Oxford, 1984).

-xviii-