CONTENTS CHAPTER I. UNDER THE STUARTS 11. THE KINGS FAVOURITE . 111. KNIGHTSE RRANT . IV. THE E XPEDITIO TO N ROCHELLE . V. THE A VENTURE O S F BASIL F EILDING . VI. THET RIBULATI O O F N DSO CTORH ARVEY . VII. EOREIGN AI YAIRS . VIII. ENGLISH AF FAIRS . IX. A OUNDHEAI S WIFE . COMMANDER-IN-O F H T I H E E F F M IDLANDS . XI. THE C APTIYK I NG .... more » XII. THE CORI IONWEALTH XIII. THE KESTOKATION . LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BASIL VISCOUNT FEILDING AND HIS WIFE ANN WESTON IN CARNIVAL DRESS AT VENICE . . Frontispicre From the icturc at Newnharn Paddox FACING PAGE MARY BEAUMONT COUNTESS OF BUCKINGHAM . I0 From tlie pichire by Myteits at Nmnham Pcrddox THE INFANTA MARIA ANA . . 2 8 From the pictirre at Newnham Paddox GEORGE VILLIERS DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM . from tlrc cttfre by Iairscn at Newnham Paddox . 56 WILLIAM FEILDING IST EARL OF DENBIGH . From the picture. after Vandyke at Nwnham Paddox . 78 FACSIMILE OF A HOLOGRAPH LETTER OF CHARLES I TO BASIL VISCOUNT FEILDING AT VENICE . . 126 From the original at Nmrrham Paddox MARY FEILDING XARCHIONESS OF HAMILTON. . 140 From the picitrve by Vandyke at Nmnham Paddox SUSAN VILLIERS COUNTESS OF DENBIGH . 168 From tlu picture by Myteris at Newnham Paddox WILLIAM FEILDING IST EARL OF DENBIGH . . 190 From the fiicture by Balthaza GerMer at Nmn6am Pahlox BASIL FEILDING 2ND EARL OF DENBIGH . 2 0 6 From a rare elfgraving JAMES IST DUKE OF HAMILTON From the. pictlrre by Vandyke at Nmlram Paddox SUSAN VILLIERS COUNTESS OF DENBIGH . 2 8 8 Prom the ictitre by Balthazar Gerbicr a f Newnham Paddox ix LIST OF AUTHORITIES NEWNHAMPA UDOXM ANUSCRIITS. CLARESDONHSI STORY O F THE REBELLION. IASSOLNIFSE OF MILTOS. STATE RECORDS. CIVIL WAR TRACTS. GREENSH ISTORY O F ENGLAXD. SIR HENRYW OTTONSN EBIUIRS. GARDINERHSI STORY. JOURNAL O S F HOUSES O F PARLIAXEXT. DALTONSL IFE OF SIR EDWARDC ECIL. RUSHWORTHHSI STORICACLO LLECTIOS. COURT A ND TIMES O F JAMES I AND CHARLE 1. LINGARDHS ISTORY OF ENGLAND. SIR T. HERBERTMS I. YOINS. LUDLOW SI EMOIRS. NICHOLS YARWICKSIIIKE. SALVETTILSE TTERS. WHITLOCK L S EJIOIRS. MEMOIRS O F MADAME DE O T T E V I L L E . LIFE AND LETTERSO F ENDY IIOPONR TER. ROYALIST FATHER AND ROUNDHEAD SON CHAPTER I UNDER THE STUARTS T HERE is, perhaps, no time in our history so full of contrast, change, and conflict as those days which, witnessing the rise of the favourite George Villiers, saw follow, in rapid succession, the struggle between King and Parliament, the Civil War, the supremacy of the Commonwealth, and the subsequent restoration of the ill-fated Stuarts. We all know the history of that period and often picture it to ourselves, wondering how it influenced individual lives, and what it meant to see this England of ours rent by civil war, with neighbour fighting against neighbour, and the whole land seething with enmity, hate, and bloodshed. There are few families, perhaps, where the wh. 0 i e story is laid so clearly or so graphically before us as in the portraits and letters of the Feildings of Newnham. There we turn from the walls on which hang the pictures of the actors in this drama to the muniment room where lie the records they have left of their B 2 ROYALIST FATHER AND ROUNDHEAD SON personal feelings, their emotions, and the motives which guided their lives. We live over again with them days of political power and excitement, followed by others of struggle and anguish...

ISBN-13: 9781408649060
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Publication Date: 2/29/2008
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