Foreword by Justin Champion: Arlington and his World

1. Introduction: Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington and his world: court, politics and diplomacy in the Restoration

Robin Eagles with Coleman A. Dennehy

2. 'The inkhorn Lord'? Locating Arlington's connexions

Robin Eagles

3. Pretending to be catholic? Sir Henry Bennet, the alliance with Spain, and the Stuart dalliance with Rome, 1656-62

Alistair Malcolm

4. The earl of Arlington and Restoration Ireland

Coleman A. Dennehy

5. Catholicism and anti-Catholicism in Arlington's world: Polemic, persuasion and the conversion of Anne Hyde, Duchess of York

Jacqueline Rose

6. 'Faisons meieux': Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington, and his political tactics

Alan Marshall

7. Arlington and Access

Brian Weiser

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

Charles Littleton

9. Naturally Born Courtiers: the FitzRoy dukes of Grafton, 1685-1757

Reider Payne