Meticulously researched, with index and trees, Salt & Silk is based on fact.
It reveals the history and fortunes of a gentry family in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Main Characters

The story is told through the lives of two people: Morgan Aubrey the Salter, and Herbert Aubrey the Politician.

Morgan Aubrey tells how he was admitted into the Salters’ Guild and became rich, survived the dangerous religious turmoil of the Elizabethan era, how he bought an estate in Clehonger and married his son to the daughter of one of the oldest of the Herefordshire families.

Herbert Aubrey details his life during the Civil War, how his father, ‘the old Cavalier’ suffered, the time Roundheads captured and imprisoned his grandfather and the way he used powerful friends like Lord Danby to savse him from bankruptcy.

Development

Morgan Aubrey came to life in Meredith’s mind. She saw him quite clearly. He was a stocky individual with a determined character stemming from what was known of his treatment by his father. Meredith had the distinct impression he wanted to say something. So she let him speak and willingly typed up what he wanted to say. In the end, he had told her how he felt about all the documented facts that had been unearthed, not to mention the turbulent times through which he lived. That had to be Morgan’s story.

Then his great-grandson, the Member of Parliament for Hereford, came to life and pushed him aside. He was quite a different kettle of fish. After Herbert Aubrey II had finished telling her (and boasting too) about all his influential friends and acquaintances in London, she could understand a little better how those events, on record, had shaped his character and temperament. Meredith felt sorry for him, growing up as he did in his formative years during the civil war...more

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