Introduction: "a mass of memories assembled" --"Your grace remembereth": memory as political counsel in Gorboduc -- Justified possessions: Spenser's recollections of "Faery lond" -- To conjure a nation: memory tricks and Henry V -- Remembering oblivion: Mlton's ambivalent politics in retrospect -- Coupling past and future: Dryden's rhymes as history -- Afterword.