Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Map of North-East Wales -- Introduction -- Part 1. Welsh Historical Culture -- Introduction -- 1 How Was History Written in Wales? -- 2 The Character and Purpose of Welsh Historical Culture -- 3 Connecting Welsh Historical Culture -- 4 Thomas Mostyn: Collections, Historical Writing, and Welsh Identity -- Part 2. Religion -- Introduction -- 5 The Welshness of the Church of England -- 6 The North-East Welsh Gentry and Their Catholic Neighbours -- 7 Puritanism and the North-East Welsh Gentry, 1640-88 -- 8 Sir Thomas Hanmer: Episcopalian Squire or 'Church-Papist'? -- Part 3. Royalism and Loyalism -- Introduction -- 9 Loyalty in the Region and the Nation -- 10 Royalism -- 11 North-East Welsh Royalism and Loyalism, 1660-85 -- 12 Robert Davies III: Royalism and Loyalism in North-East Wales -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
Analyses the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688
