List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note to the Reader; Abbreviations; Introducing the Eglantine Table; The Table: models and artistic context; Botany, the Table and Hardwick New Hall; The playing cards and gaming boards; The writing implements; The music in staff notation; The book of lute tablature; 'A full and lively pourtraiture': The Table as evidence for Tudor musical instruments; The bowed instruments and bows; The gittern or guitar; The cittern; The lute; The harp; The wind instruments; The Table and the music of the 1560s; Pipers, Fiddlers and the Musical Lives of the Majority; Tables of the Mind; Appendix 1: The renovation of the Eglantine Table by Tankerdale Ltd, 1996; Appendix 2: The Table in the context of furnishings in Bess of Hardwick's houses; Glossary; List of Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index