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THE FIRST DUKE AND DUCHESS
OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
[Illustration: WILLIAM CAVENDISH, DUKE OF NEWCASTLE]
THE FIRST DUKE AND DUCHESS
OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE
By the Author of
“A Life of Sir Kenelm Digby,” “The Life of a Prig,”
etc.
With Illustrations
Longmans, Green, and Co.
39 Paternoster Row, London
New York, Bombay, and Calcutta
1910
PREFACE
The compiler of these pages does not labour under the delusion that he
has written a book. All that he has attempted has been, as it were, to
invite his reader to an arm-chair in his study, and to place in the
reader’s hands a succession of open volumes and copies of manuscripts
containing passages which throw more or less light upon the lives of
the first Duke and Duchess of Newcastle. Occasionally he has ventured
to make a few remarks, either of introduction or of retrospection,
concerning the evidence thus brought before his guest, remarks which
may easily be skipped at will.
This humble form of literary labour has the signal advantage that, if
it fails to attract the reader, it succeeds in affording an object for
reading to the writer.
Much assistance has been most kindly given in this work by Mr. Walter
Herries Pollock.
CONTENTS
PAGE
PREFACE v
CHAPTER I.
Clarendon’s _History_ and the Duchess’s biography—Pepys—Family
history—A wonderful grandmother—Boyhood—Hobbes—Wotten—The Court
of Savoy—Said to have been disliked by Buckingham—Marriage 1