Friends in YouthTwo old friends end up on opposite sides of the English Civil War, in this scintillating history. At the Inns of Court, the intellectual, literary, and social heart of early 17th century London, many pivotal friendships were forgedfew closer than that of Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward (Ned) Hyde. Both young men were lively characters, industrious, well connected, principled, and optimistic. They dreamed of reforming the government of Charles I, a