abstract:Hatfield House is a country house set in a large park, the Great Park, on the eastern side of the town of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The present Jacobean house was built in 1611 by Robert Cecil, First Earl of Salisbury and Chief Minister to King James I and has been the home of the Cecil family ever since.
But the book will at the same time enhance Mr Roberts's reputation as a scholar to be reckoned with: no one else has mined the Cecil family archive at HatfieldHouse to such effect.