The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck

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I have done and have made no noise of it and have done all I could to give no scandal to the Duke or Viscount: He is no

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and the question presents itself whether it was because he disliked acting as keeper to a lunatic, or because he

rport appears to be to urge Lord Purbeck, out of consideration for Buckingham, as well as for his ow

ms to have recovered his sanity; but only for a time, altho

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could not have been chronic; for in later years we read that he was managing h

ecome the subject of a certain amount of vague scandal, but, so far as was then known, or at least proved, of nothing more; and that he had contrived that she should h

, I shall with a very good will suffer with him, and think all but my duty, though I think every wife would not do so. But if you can so far dispense with the laws of God as to keep me from my Husband, yet aggravate it not by restraining me from his means, and all other contentments; but, which I think is rather the part of a Christian, you especially ought much rather to study comforts fo

never received a penny from you. Her confidence in your nobleness made me so long silent; but now, believe me, I will sooner beg my bread in the streets, to all your dishonours, than any more trouble my friends, and especially my Mother, who was not only content to afford us part of the little means she hath left her, but whilst I was with her, was continual

five years: and now it were time to despair, but that I hope you will one day be yourself, and be governed by your own noble thoughts, and then I am assured to obtain what I desire, since my desires be so reasonable, and bu

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, be argued that it may only mean that he was in a very bad state of bodily health accompanied by great mental

allowance. So early as 28th November, 1618, John Pary wrote to Carleton,[59] regretting that he had not applied to Lady Bedford to use her influence in o

most influential-and that in the face of enormous difficulties, was beginning to fall from her high estate. And besides the bi

ircumstances it is much easier to write with confidence. We have already learned much about them. We have seen that she was brought up in an atmosphere of perpetual domestic discord, ending in a physical struggle between her father and her mother for the possession of her person: that she

c, or even an irritable invalid. Then his change of religion would most likely annoy her extremely. Whethe

ction: nor could that daughter place much confidence in a mother who had once deceived her with a forged letter. To her father, who had treated her with great brutality and had sold her just as he might have sold a beast among his farm stock, she would be still less likely to turn for comfort or for counsel. Add to all

laced under such trying conditions, we can but feel prepared to hear that some or other of the usual results of bad education, bad treatment, and bad surroundings exhibited them

rn a boy named Robert Wright. More than a century later the Vicar of the Parish was a

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prived of the office of Lord Treasurer, had been tried for peculation in the discharge of it, and then condemned in the Star Chamber to imprisonment in the Tower and a fine of ￡30,000. When he was liberated, he was told that two of his sons, who held places

nection by marriage that Sir Robert Howard became acquainted and intimate with Lady Purbeck; and, to make a long story short, let it be observed here th

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