Bacon to Coke 10

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.

Buckingham ennobles his own family--Villiers becomes Lord
Purbeck--Purbeck and the Countess of Buckingham become
Catholics--Rumours that Purbeck is insane 64

CHAPTER VIII.

The insanity question--Quite sane--Thought insane again--Letter
from Lady Purbeck to Buckingham--Birth of Robert Wright--Sir
Robert Howard 74

CHAPTER IX.

Proceedings instituted against Sir Robert Howard and Lady
Purbeck--Buckingham's correspondence about them with his
lawyers--Lanier, the King's musician--Buckingham accuses Lady
Purbeck of witchcraft--Dr. Lambe--Laud and witchcraft 83

CHAPTER X.

Trial of Lady Purbeck before the High Commission--The
sentence--Archbishop Laud--The Ambassador of
Savoy--Escape--Clun--Some of our other characters--Lady Purbeck
goes to Stoke Pogis to take care of her father--Death of Coke 102

CHAPTER XI.

Lady Purbeck goes to London--Laud--Arrest of Lady Purbeck and Sir
Robert Howard--Question of her virtue at that time--Lord
Danby--Guernsey--Paris--Sir Robert Howard turns the tables on
Laud--Changes of religion 114

CHAPTER XII.

Lady Purbeck in Paris--The English Ambassador--Serving a