GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

Signs of the Restoration.--Samuel Pepys in his Glory.--A Royal
Company.--Pepys 'ready to Weep.'--The Playmate of Charles
II.--George Villiers's Inheritance.--Two Gallant Young
Noblemen.--The Brave Francis Villiers.--After the Battle of
Worcester.--Disguising the King.--Villiers in Hiding.--He
appears as a Mountebank.--Buckingham's Habits.--A Daring
Adventure.--Cromwell's Saintly Daughter.--Villiers and the
Rabbi.--The Buckingham Pictures and Estates.--York
House.--Villiers returns to England.--Poor Mary
Fairfax.--Villiers in the Tower.--Abraham Cowley, the
Poet.--The Greatest Ornament of Whitehall.--Buckingham's Wit
and Beauty.--Flecknoe's Opinion of Him.--His Duel with the Earl
of Shrewsbury.--Villiers as a Poet.--As a Dramatist.--A Fearful
Censure!--Villiers's Influence in Parliament.--A Scene in the
Lords.--The Duke of Ormond in Danger.--Colonel Blood's
Outrages.--Wallingford House and Ham House.--'Madame
Ellen.'--The Cabal.--Villiers again in the Tower.--A
Change.--The Duke of York's Theatre.--Buckingham and the
Princess of Orange.--His last Hours.--His Religion.--Death of
Villiers.--The Duchess of Buckingham. p. 1


COUNT DE GRAMMONT, ST. EVREMOND, AND LORD ROCHESTER.

De Grammont's Choice.--His Influence with Turenne.--The Church or
the Army?--An Adventure at Lyons.--A brilliant Idea.--De
Grammont's Generosity.--A Horse 'for the
Cards.'--Knight-Cicisbeism.--De Grammont's first Love.--His