Excerpt: ...him a marquis that he might go before his younger brother but I heare of late he is fallen backe to his old craise and worse. "Yo r Lo ps most assuredly "at command, "(Signed) John Chamberlain ." This shows that, if Purbeck was insane, his insanity was intermittent; and it could not have been chronic; for in later years we read that he was managing his own affairs and that he married again, some time after the death of Frances. From the following letter, written by Lady Purbeck to Buckingham, and unfortunately ...
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Excerpt: ...him a marquis that he might go before his younger brother but I heare of late he is fallen backe to his old craise and worse. "Yo r Lo ps most assuredly "at command, "(Signed) John Chamberlain ." This shows that, if Purbeck was insane, his insanity was intermittent; and it could not have been chronic; for in later years we read that he was managing his own affairs and that he married again, some time after the death of Frances. From the following letter, written by Lady Purbeck to Buckingham, and unfortunately undated, it would seem that Buckingham had driven her from her home, when she had become 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 have none of the wealth which she had brought to her husband. As will be seen, she was apparently penniless, except for what she received from her mother or her friends. "My Lord 58:
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