Pauline Louise Croft

Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils 1558-1612

King James

King James

Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night

400 years ago this November the most ambitious and extraordinary plot ever conceived in this country came close to success: the attempt by Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators to destroy in a single, annihilating blast the entire British ruling class and royal family.This book draws on the experti...

Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils by Croft Pauline (2002-03-01) Hardcover

[(Spanish Company * * )] [Author: Pauline Croft] [Jan-1973]

King James (British History in Perspective) by Pauline Croft (2002-11-15)

The Spanish Company (London Record Society)

Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils

The Cecils were the dominant noble family in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. William, Lord Burghley rose to power and great wealth under Elizabeth I, then used his extensive patronage and exceptional breadth of interests to advance the Cecils' remarkable political and cultural pre-eminence. This w...

King James

Pauline Croft's clear and concise study provides a narrative of the reign of King James VI and I in his dominions of England, Ireland, and Scotland, together with an authoritative analysis of his remarkable, though flawed, achievements. Croft emphasizes the inter-relationships between domestic and f...

FRESH LIGHT ON BATE'S CASE (BOUND OFFPRINT FROM "THE HISTORICAL JOURNAL", VOLUME 30, NO. 3)