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Title: The Wits and Beaux of Society
Volume 1

Author: Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton

Release Date: March 19, 2006 [EBook #18020]

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THE
WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY

BY
GRACE AND PHILIP WHARTON

New Edition with a Preface

BY
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY, M.P.

_And the original illustrations by_
H. K. BROWNE AND JAMES GODWIN

TWO VOLS.--VOL. I.

New York
WORTHINGTON CO., 747 BROADWAY
1890

[Illustration: WHARTON'S ROGUISH PRESENT.]

DEDICATION.

DEAR MR. AUGUSTIN DALY,

May I write your name on the dedication page of this new edition of an
old and pleasant book in token of our common interest in the people and
the periods of which it treats, and as a small proof of our friendship?

Sincerely yours,
JUSTIN HUNTLY M'CARTHY.

LONDON, _July, 1890._

CONTENTS.

PREFACE TO THE PRESENT EDITION p. xi
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION p. xxv
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION p. xxix

GEORGE VILLIERS, SECOND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.

Signs of the Restoration.--Samuel Pepys in his Glory.--A Royal
Company.--Pepys 'ready to Weep.'--The Playmate of Charles
II.--George Villiers's Inheritance.--Two Gallant Young
Noblemen.--The Brave Francis Villiers.--After the Battle of
Worcester.--Disguising the King.--Villiers in Hiding.--He
appears as a Mountebank.--Buckingham's Habits.--A Daring
Adventure.--Cromwell's Saintly Daughter.--Villiers and the
Rabbi.--The Buckingham Pictures and Estates.--York
House.--Villiers returns to England.--Poor Mary
Fairfax.--Villiers in the Tower.--Abraham Co