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MESSRS. HURST AND BLACKETT'S 

 NEW VfGllKS Continued. 



VOLS. III. & IV. OF HER MAJESTY'S TOWER. 



By W. HEPWORTH DIXON. DEDICATED BY EXPRESS 

 PERMISSION TO THE QUEEN. Completing the Work. Third 

 Edition. Demy 8vo. 30s. 



CONTENTS : A Favourite ; A Favourite's Friend ; The Countess of Suffolk ; To the 

 Tower; Lady Catherine Manners; House of Villiers; Revolution; Fall of Lord 

 Bacon; A Spanish Match; Spaniolizing; Henry Do Vero; The Mutter of Hol- 

 land; Sea Affairs ; The Pirate War ; Port and Court; A New Romanzo; Move 

 and Counter-move ; Pirate and Prison ; In the Murshalsea ; The Spanish Olive ; 

 Prisons Opened; A Parliament; Digby, Earl of Bristol ; Turn of Fortune; Eliot 

 Eloquent; Folton's Knife; An Assassin; Nine Gentlemen in the Tower; A 

 King's Revenge : Charles I. ; Pillars of State and Churr.h ; End of Wentworth ; 

 Laud's Last Troubles ; The Lieutenant's House; A Political Romance; Phi- 

 losophy at Bay ; Fate of an Idealist ; Britannia ; Killing not Murder; A Second 

 Buckingham; Roger, Earl of Castlemaine ; A Life of Plots ; The Two Penns; 

 A Quaker's Cell; Colonel Blood; Crown Jewels, King and Colonel ; Rye House 

 Plot ; Murder; A Patriot; The Good Old Cause; James. Duke of Monmouth; 

 The Unjust Judge; The Scottish Lords; The Countess of Nithisdale; Escaped, 

 Ciiusc of the Pretender; Reformers and Reform , Reform Riots ; Sir Francis 

 Burdett; A Summons to the Tower; Arthur Thistle wood; A Cabinet Council; 

 Cuto Street; Pursuit; Last Prisoners in the Tower. 



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"These volumes are two galleries of richly painted portraits of the noblest 

 men and most brilliant women, .besides others commemorated by English 

 history. The grand old Hynl Keep, palace mid prison by turns, is ivvivillcd in 

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 who saw Kaleigh die in Palace Yard, to that of Thistlewood, the last prisoner im- 

 mured in the Tower. Few works are given to us, in those days, so abundant in 

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HISTORY OF WILLIAM PENN, Founder of 



Pennsylvania. By W. HKI-WOKTH DIXON. A NEW LIBRARY EDITION. 

 1 vol. domy Hvo, with Portrait. 12s. 



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 readers, who will thank Mr. IMxon for hi Interesting and Instructive memoir of 

 one of the worthies of England." Kj-niiiuier. 



"' William Penn ' is a line and noble work. Eloquent, picturesque, and epigra- 

 mfitic in style, subtle and philosophical in insight, and moderate anil accurate in 

 statement, it is a modal of what a biography ought to be." .SuW.iy Tinut. 



"Tho character of this great Christian Englishman, William Penn. a true- hero 

 of moral and civil conquests, is one of the fairest in modern history. a'id muy bo 

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