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History has not been especially generous to Henry Herbert, second Earl of Pembroke. He has never been the subject of a full biography. Penry Williams surveyed his career for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in little more than a thousand words.1 He is now remembered less for his own achievements than for his relatives’: his wife Mary Sidney, who gathered a brilliant literary and artistic circle at Wilton, and his sons, William and Philip, luminaries of the early Stuart period.2
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Penry Williams, “Herbert, Henry, second Earl of Pembroke (b. in or after 1538, d. 1601),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
The council in the Marches, although unpopular in some quarters, especially in the English counties under its jurisdiction, is regarded by historians as having been reasonably successful in its primary aim of maintaining law and order in Wales and administering justice in a speedy and affordable fashion: see, for example, J. Gwynfor Jones, Early Modern Wales, c. 1525–1640 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994), 92ff. On the late Elizabethan lieutenancies and their role in mobilizing military resources, see Neil Younger, War and Politics in the Elizabethan Counties (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012).
Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558–1641 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965), 212. T[he] N[ational]A[rchives]: P[ublic] R[ecord] O[ffice], SP 12/222/38.
J. E. Neale, The Elizabethan House of Commons (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949), 93.
Robert Lemon, ed., Calendar of State Papers, Domestic 1547–1580 (London: Longman, 1856), 464, 484, 562.
P. E. J. Hammer, The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics. The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585–1597 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 14;
A. H. Dodd, “North Wales in the Essex Revolt of 1601,” English Historical Review 59 (1944): 348–70.
See Neil Younger, “The Practice and Politics of Troop-Raising: Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex and the Elizabethan Regime,” English Historical Review 127, no. 526 (June 2012): 566–91, see 578, n. 49.
R. E. Ham “The Four Shire Controversy,” Welsh History Review 8, no. 4 (1977): 381–99. Williams, Council in the Marches, 293. HMC Report on the Manuscripts of Lord De L’Isle and Dudley, II, 459, 462.
HMC, The Manuscripts of the Right Honourable F. J. Savile Foljambe, ed. R. E. G. Kirk (London, 1897), 20–22;
Simon R. Neal, ed., Calendar of Patent Rolls 30 Elizabeth (1587–1588) (List & Index Society vol. 297, Kew, 2003), 27–28.
W. J. Smith, ed., Herbert Correspondence. The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Letters of the Herberts of Chirbury, Powis Castle and Dolguog, formerly at Powis Castle in Montgomeryshire (Cardiff and Dublin, 1963), 60–61. See also Wynn Papers no. 174.
George Owen, The Description of Pembrokeshire, ed. Dillwyn Miles (Llandysul: Goiner Press, 1994), 164.
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Younger, N. (2013). Henry Herbert, Second Earl of Pembroke and Noble Leadership in the Elizabethan Provinces. In: Kaufman, P.I. (eds) Leadership and Elizabethan Culture. Jepson Studies in Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137340290_8
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