The Verneys : a true story of love, war, and madness in seventeenth-century England
Traces the story of a seventeenth-century English family as drawn from their personal letters and other documents, discussing how their experiences reflected the realities of period gentry life, in an account that includes coverage of their relationshipswith Parliament and the royal family
Nonfiction
xxii, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781594489488, 1594489483
137237434
pt. 1: Edmund and Ralph. Francis turns Turk
Venturous knights
Sufficient intellectuals
I will provide
A little fading honour
The best of men
Fortune's wheel is ever turning
This world is full of changes
I do not like the quarrel
pt. 2: Ralph and Mary. A strange cruelty
Mischief
Oh my my dear dear
Giro d'Italia
pt. 3: Mun and Jack. None but princes
Mend me or end me
Perfect empress of my heart
All the physic in the world
She doth not rave
The levant trader
Natural bias
Good husbandry
Without escutcheons
He grows weary