Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his World

Robin Eagles is Editor of the House of Lords (1660–1832) section at the History of Parliament. His previous publications include Francophilia in English Society 1748–1815 (2000) and an edition of the Diaries of John Wilkes 1770–1797 (2014).Coleman A. Dennehy is a former IRC Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at UCD and UCL. Having formerly taught at Vienna, he is currently at the Humanities Institute (UCD) and has recently published Parliament in Ireland, 1613–89, Restoration Ireland, Law and Revolution in Seventeenth-Century Ireland, and several articles and chapters.

• 1. Introduction: Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his World: Court, Politics and Diplomacy in the Restoration 2. ‘The Inkhorn Lord’?: Locating Arlington’s Connections 3. Pretending to Be Catholic?: Sir Henry Bennet, the Alliance with Spain and Stuart Dalliance with Rome, 1656–62 4. The Earl of Arlington and Restoration Ireland 5. Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Arlington’s World: Polemic, Persuasion and the Conversion of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York 6. ‘Faisons meieux’: Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington and His Political Tactics 7. Arlington and Access 8. ‘So That my Estate May Continue in the Name and Blood of the Bennets for Ever’: The Bennet Brothers and the Perpetuation of the Bennet Family 9. Naturally Born Courtiers: The FitzRoy Dukes of Grafton, 1685–1757