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Memoirs of the Court
of England and * *

During the Reigns of the Stuarts, includ-
ing the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

MRS. MALCOLM DONALD

MAY 23 1940

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.

WILLIAM HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE.

Character of This Nobleman- His Career at Court - His

Reception at the Court of Elizabeth - His Marriage

- His Conduct at the Council-chamber of James -

The King's Practical Joke, and Pembroke's Retaliation

- Quarrel between Pembroke and Sir George Wharton

- Wood's Description of Pembroke Remarkable Cir-

cumstances Attending His Decease

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CHAPTER II.

PHILIP HERBERT, EARL OF PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY.

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The Earl's Character -King James's Partiality for Him –

His Progress at Court - His Appearance at the Court

of Elizabeth-His Marriage to Lady Susan Vere-

The Wedding Banquet and Mask - Montgomery's In-

solence and Cowardice- He Is Horsewhipped by Ram-

sey The Earl's Vanity as a Patron of Literature —

His Second Wife- His Political Apostasy - Burlesque

of His Speech to the University of Oxford-His Study

of Physiognomy. His Death

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CHAPTER III.

MARY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE.

Relations of This Lady-Her Character - Her Literary

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CHAPTER IV.

JAMES HAY, EARL OF CARLISLE.

Introduction of This Personage to King James- His Rapid

Rise in the Monarch's Favour- His Elevation to the

Peerage-Family Traditions-The Earl's Magnificence

- Splendour of His Mission to Paris - His Costly

Progress to Germany - Dinner Provided for Him by

the Prince of Orange- His Unsuccessful Missions—

His Extravagance in Costume Prodigality of His

Feasts Ante-suppers - Banquet Given by the Earl

in Honour of the French Ambassador - First and

Second Marriage of the Earl - His Ruling Passion in

Death His Character

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CHAPTER V.

FRANCIS, LORD BACON, VISCOUNT ST. ALBANS.

Bacon's Birth-His Boyhood.

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His Oratory-His Friends

- Hobbes of Malmsbury - Variety of Bacon's Knowl-

edge His Superb Manner of Living His Venality

-Dishonesty of His Servants- His Humiliation be-

fore His Peers-His Retort to Gondomar - Remark

of Charles, Prince of Wales - Bacon's Ingratitude to

the Earl of Essex- False Aspersions Cast on His

Name - His Comparative Poverty-Anecdotes - His

Personal Appearance- Anecdotes - Celebration of Ba-

con's Sixtieth Birthday Ben Jonson's Verses on the

Occasion Bacon's Death - -Howell's Remarks on the

Event

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