: The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck: A Scandal of the XVIIth Century by Longueville Thomas - Purbeck Frances (Coke) Villiers viscountess -1645; Trials (Adultery) Great Britain

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Sir Edward Coke--Lady Elizabeth Hatton--Bacon--Marriage of Coke and Lady Elizabeth--Birth of the Heroine 1

Rivalry of Coke and Bacon--Quarrelling between Coke and Lady Elizabeth--Coke offends the King and loses his offices--Letter of Bacon to Coke 10

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lady Purbeck in Paris--The English Ambassador--Serving a writ--Lady Purbeck at a convent--Sir Kenelm Digby--His letter about Lady Purbeck--Lady Purbeck returns to England 125

Lord Purbeck takes Lady Purbeck back again as his wife--He acknowledges Robert Wright as his own son--Death of Lady Purbeck--Retrospect of her life and character--Her descendants--Claims to the title of Viscount Purbeck 137

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