Pride and Graft
Christian Hesketh, 21 July 1983
Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I
by Linda Levy Peck.
Allen and Unwin, 277 pp., £18.50, December 1982,0 04 942177 8 Show More
by Linda Levy Peck.
Allen and Unwin, 277 pp., £18.50, December 1982,
“... Although Dr Peck’s absorbing book centres on the career of an individual, Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, it is not intended as a straightforward biography. As its title indicates, the author’s aim is to study, in relation to one outstanding individual, what Dr Peck sees as the crucial fields of patronage and administrative reform. Northampton was born in 1540 as Henry Howard, but in tracing his descent Dr Peck confuses the second Duke, who destroyed the Scottish army at Flodden, with the third, who succeeded in marrying off two of his nieces, one after the other, to Henry VIII ... ”