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The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck - A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Thomas Longueville
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Bacon to Coke 10

CHAPTER III.

Coke tries to regain the favour of Buckingham and the King by offering
his daughter to Sir John Villiers--Anger of Lady Elizabeth--Lady
Elizabeth steals away with her daughter 21

CHAPTER IV.

Coke besieges his wife and carries off his daughter--Coke and Winwood
_v_. Lady Elizabeth and Bacon--Charges and counter-charges 30

CHAPTER V.

Lady Elizabeth tries to recover her daughter--Her scheme for a match
between Frances Coke and the Earl of Oxford--Bacon, finding that
he has offended both Buckingham and the King, turns round and
favours the match with Villiers--Trial of Lady Exeter--Imprisonment
of Lady Elizabeth at an Alderman's house 39

CHAPTER VI.

Frances is tortured into consent--The marriage--Lady Elizabeth comes
into royal favour and Coke falls out of it--Lady Elizabeth's
dinner-party to the King--Carleton and his wife quarrel about
her 52

CHAPTER VII.

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