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and 1633 : and the contemporary MS. Abstract of the
Earl of Danby’s Will. 6 pp. folio. 1640.
The 2nd signatory to the above documents, Frances, Viscountess
Purbeck, daughter of Sir Francis Coke, married John Villiers,
Viscount Purbeck—a marriage that proved a tragedy. The
Viscountess deserted the Viscount when he lost his reason and
lived with Sir Robert Howard, the Dramatist. In 1624 she gave
birth to a son [see infra] and in October was convicted of adultery.
The Peerage became extinct, though the claim to it put forward
by Robert Danvers was for many years a cause celebve.
Robert Danvers, alias Villiers, alias Wright, called
Viscount Purbeck, the illegitimate son of Viscountess
Purbecke (see supra}, married Elizabeth Danvers, the
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Buckingham for the use of the Viscountess, dated 1631
and 1633 : and the contemporary MS. Abstract of the
Earl of Danby’s Will. 6 pp. folio. 1640.
The 2nd signatory to the above documents, Frances, Viscountess
Purbeck, daughter of Sir Francis Coke, married John Villiers,
Viscount Purbeck—a marriage that proved a tragedy. The
Viscountess deserted the Viscount when he lost his reason and
lived with Sir Robert Howard, the Dramatist. In 1624 she gave
birth to a son [see infra] and in October was convicted of adultery.
The Peerage became extinct, though the claim to it put forward
by Robert Danvers was for many years a cause celebve.
Robert Danvers, alias Villiers, alias Wright, called
Viscount Purbeck, the illegitimate son of Viscountess
Purbecke (see supra}, married Elizabeth Danvers, the
sister of the Earl of Danby. 10 A.Ll.s. and a L.s., 1659-60.
To Sir Robert Clayton and John Morris, authorising the
payment of money.
Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, Lord Treasurer, temp.
Charles IE 2 A.Ll.s. 2 pp. 4to. 2 Sept. 1678. To Sir
George Jeffries [Judge Jeffreys].
“ I am glad his Matie. does you the honour hee intended you this
day and I hope to see him do you greater. . . .”
95 DEFOE. The History of the Great Plague in London, in
the Year 1665. ... To which is added, a Journal of the
Plague at Marseilles, in the Year 1720. 8vo. Frontispiece
—an Original Water-Colour Drawing of a scene during
the Plague of London. Black morocco sides decorated with
the Skull and Cross-bones in gold and blind, in the panel on
the upper cover is “Mors Undique scevit—1665,” with the
Essex crest in the centre, in the panel on the under cover is
“ Mussabat Tacito Medicina Timore,” the back is lettered on
four panels, and the top and bottom panels are impressed with
the Skull and Cross-bones upon a background of tiny gold dots
and stars, the volume has purple watered-silk fly-leaves,
inside the cover is a broad border of black morocco covered with
the Skull and Cross-bones in gold—50 in all, enclosing a panel
of purple silk. At the four corners of the purple silk end-
leaves the Skull and Cross-bones is repeated, gilt edges.
London, 1754. £24
An unique binding made for the Earl of Essex (circa 1800) by an
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London.
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