Simon Adams is Reader in History at the University of Strathclyde

Introduction
1. Faction, clientage and party: English politics, 1550-1603
2. Eliza enthroned? The Court and its politics
3. Favourites and their factions at the Elizabethan Court
4. The patronage of the crown in Elizabethan politics: the 1550s in perspective
5. The Eltonian legacy: politics
6. The Court as an economic institution
7. Queen Elizabeth's eyes at Court: The Earl of Leicester
8. The Dudley clientele, 1553-63
9. A Puritan crusade? The composition of Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86
10. The Dudley clientele and the House of Commons, 1559-86
11. A godly peer? Leicester and the Puritans
12. The gentry of north Wales and Leicester's expedition to the Netherlands, 1585-86
13. The Composition of 1564 and Leicester's tenurial reformation in the lordship of Denbigh
14. Office-holders of the borough of Denbigh and the lordships of Denbighshire in the reign of Elizabeth I
15. 'Because I am of that countrye & mynde to plant myself there': Leicester and the West Midlands
16. Baronial contexts? Continutity and change in the noble affinity, 1400-1600
Index