_.vF or my title to this introduction I thank Lamar Hill, by way of Mark Twain. From Professor Hill's contribution to this volume, the reader will see the aptness of my borrowing, for the quotation serves as a splendid epigraph for these essays on Tudor and early Stuart history. volume you have in hand has a little history of its own, and it is this that I intend to map out for you here. In the summer of 1994 Robert C. Ritchie, W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington, asked me to think about a subject for a conference to celebrate the Huntington's seventy-fifth anniversary. Tudor and early Stuart history, long one of the most important fields of research at the Huntington, was settled on as a general subject for the conference, which would be one celebratory event among others. We agreed that the invited speakers would be given some latitude in their choice of subject, but that each had to cobble to the last of a single theme. I submitted a written proposal suggesting the title that was ultimately adopted, The Remapping of English Political History, 1500-1640, and we explored the prospects for contributions with about a dozen scholars from Britain, Canada, and the United States. In the fall we settled on a group of seven distinguished invitees: Professors Barbara Harris, Patrick Collinson, Norman Jones, Paul Christianson, Mark Kishlansky, Kevin Sharpe, and Annabel Patterson. Colleagues at the Huntington proposed that I make the eighth presentation, leaving us with four talks to be given on each of two days. We then invited David Cressy to open the proceedings with an introduction to the conference theme. Our lineup reflected a conscious decision to obtain balance on the theme of remapping, not only from the beginning of the Tudor century well into the early Stuart era, but also through a variety of perspectives on politics, political culture, and writing political history. By the time of the actual conference in June 1995, there had been some discussion of publishing the proceedings, whether extramurally or by the Huntington Library itself. But nothing had been decided on that point until early August, when Susan Green, editor of the Huntington Library Quarterly,
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