The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck - A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Thomas Longueville
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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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