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Title: Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles

Author: Various

Release Date: October 14, 2004 [EBook #13751]

Language: English

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CHARACTERS

FROM THE

HISTORIES & MEMOIRS

OF THE

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

With an Essay on THE CHARACTER

and Historical Notes

By DAVID NICHOL SMITH

OXFORD

1918

CONTENTS

ESSAY ON THE CHARACTER

I. The Beginnings
II. The Literary Models
III. Clarendon
IV. Other Character Writers

CHARACTERS

1. JAMES I. By Arthur Wilson
2. " By Sir Anthony Weldon
3. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM (George Villiers, first Duke). By Clarendon
4. SIR THOMAS COVENTRY. By Clarendon
5. SIR RICHARD WESTON. By Clarendon
6. THE EARL OF ARUNDEL (Thomas Howard, fourteenth Earl). By Clarendon
7. THE EARL OF PEMBROKE (William Herbert, third Earl). By Clarendon
8. SIR FRANCIS BACON. By Ben Jonson
9. " " " By Arthur Wilson
10. " " " By Thomas Fuller
11. " " " By William Rawley
12. BEN JONSON. By Clarendon
13. " " By James Howell
14. HENRY HASTINGS. By Shaftesbury
15. CHARLES I. By Clarendon
16. " By Sir Philip Warwick
17. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD (Thomas Wentworth, first Earl). By Clarendon
18. THE EARL OF STRAFFORD (Thomas Wentworth, first Earl). By Sir Philip
Warwick
19. THE EARL OF NORTHAMPTON (Spencer Compton, second Earl). By Clarendon
20. THE EARL OF CARNARVON (Robert Dormer, first Earl). By Clarendon
21. LORD FALKLAND (Lucius Cary, second Viscount). By Clarendon
22. LORD FALKLAND (Lucius Cary, second Viscount). By Clarendon
23. SIDNEY GODOLPHIN. By Clarendon
24. WILLIAM LAUD. By Clarendon
25. " " By Thomas Fuller
26. " " By Sir Philip Warwick
27. WILLIAM JUXON. By Sir Philip Warwick
28. THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD (William Seymour, first Marquis). By Clarendon
29. THE MARQUIS OF NEWCAS