Lloyd Bowen is Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University.

With consummate skill, the author showcases what the lifetime of Edward Vaughan tells us about how webs of feud, litigation, inheritance and factional conflict shaped the experience of civil war. Bowen offers a new style of biography, inventively fashioned from litigation records to illuminate provincial gentry life in the mid-Wales borderlands. Professor Andrew Hopper, University of Oxford

• Genealogical ChartsMapsAbbreviationsIntroductionPART ONE: FAMILY, FACTION AND THE LAWChapter 1: Families and Faction in Elizabethan and Early Stuart MontgomeryshireChapter 2: A Labyrinth of Lawsuits: Contesting the Llwydiarth Inheritance, 1622–31Chapter 3: Powis versus Vaughan and the Downfall of Prerogative Justice, 1631–42PART TWO: POLITICS AND PATRIMONY DURING THE BRITISH CIVIL WARSChapter 4: Civil War, Conquest and Committees, 1642–45Chapter 5: Edward Vaughan, the Governance of North Wales and the Struggle overAccounts, January–October 1646Chapter 6: The Army, Civilians and Parliamentary Elections, October 1646–April 1647Chapter 7: Parliament Man?: Edward Vaughan, Parliamentary Presbyterians and Pride’s Purge, April 1647–February 1649PART THREE: FROM REPUBLIC TO RESTORATIONChapter 8: Republican Revenge, 1648–55Chapter 9: Religion, Politics and Rehabilitation, 1650–61Chapter 10: Death and Dynasty, 1661–72ConclusionMANUSCRIPT BIBLIOGRAPHY