TAILIEUCHUNG - Title: The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century

This well-known incident is only mentioned to give an idea of the period of English history at which the following story makes its start. It is not, however, with public, but with private life that we are to be here concerned; nor is it in the Court of the Queen, but in the humbler home of her Attorney-General, that we must begin. In a humbler, it is true, yet not in a very humble home; for Mr. Attorney Coke had inherited a good estate from his father, had married an heiress, in Bridget Paston, who brought him the house and estate of Huntingfield Hall, in. | The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck 1 The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck Project Gutenberg s The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck by Thomas Longueville This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck A Scandal of the XVIIth Century Author Thomas Longueville Release Date March 4 2005 EBook 15257 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CURIOUS CASE OF LADY PURBECK Produced by Malcolm Farmer Richard J. Shiffer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE CURIOUS CASE OF LADY PURBECK A SCANDAL OF THE XVIITH CENTURY BY THE AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF SIR KENELM DIGBY THE ADVENTURES OF KING JAMES II. MARSHAL TURENNE THE LIFE OF A PRIG ETC. LONGMANS GREEN AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW LONDON NEW YORK BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA 1909 PREFACE The curious case of Lady Purbeck is here presented without embellishment much as it has been found in old books and old manuscripts chiefly at the Record Office and at the British Museum. Readers must not expect to find any well-drawn characters fine descriptions local colour or dramatic talent in these pages on each of which Mr. Dry-as-dust will be encountered. Possibly some writer of fiction endowed with able hands directed by an imaginative mind may some day produce a readable romance from the rough-hewn matter which they contain but as their author s object has been to tell the story simply as it has come down to us and as much as was possible to let the contemporaries of the heroine tell it in their own words he has endeavoured to suppress his own imagination his own emotions and his own opinions in writing it. He has CHAPTER I. 2 the pleasure of acknowledging much useful assistance and kind encouragement in this little work from Mr. Walter Herries Pollock. CONTENTS

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• Thomas Longueville
• Lady Purbeck
• The Curious Case
• Frances
• Lady Elizabeth Hatton