John Poyer, the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire and the British Revolutions

Lloyd Bowen is Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.The main readership level is undergraduate and postgraduate students in Higher.

• MapsAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: The Setting: John Poyer and Early Stuart Pembrokeshire, c.1606–1640Chapter 2: The Irish Crisis and the Coming of Civil War, 1640–42Chapter 3: Allies and Enemies: Poyer and Pembroke during the First Civil WarChapter 4: The Struggle for Supremacy: Poyer and Post-War Politics, 1646–47Chapter 5: The Road to Rebellion, August 1647–March 1648Chapter 6: Poyer, Powell and the Prince, March–April 1648Chapter 7: The Siege of Pembroke, May–July 1648Chapter 8: Revenge and Revolution: Poyer, Print and Parliamentary Justice, August 1648–April 1649Chapter 9: AfterlivesAppendix: Timeline of the Civil Wars in Pembrokeshire

‘This is a brilliant book, which not only transforms our view of the ‘turncoat’ John Poyer but also provides one of the most vivid, well-informed and sophisticated accounts ever written of the seventeenth-century civil wars in Wales.”