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Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, in conversation with King Charles II, praises the virtue of his Osborne ancestors. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale, 1771.

Speculum Juventutis, or, A true mirror : where errors in breeding noble and generous youth, with the miseries and mischiefs that usually attend it, are clearly made manifest, as likewise remedies for every growing evil : portray'd to the life in the legend of Sisaras and Vallinda / by Capt. Edw. Panton, Patrophilus.

The thoughts of a member of the lower House [i.e. John Trenchard] in relation to a project for restraining and limiting the power of the crown in the future creation of peers.

Costumes and pastimes of the nobleman. Etching by J. Amman and VZ, 1579.

Love, lust, and license in early modern England : illicit sex and the nobility / Johanna Rickman.

Courtly Indian women in late imperial India / by Angma Dey Jhala.

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Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, in conversation with King Charles II, praises the virtue of his Osborne ancestors. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale, 1771.

The thoughts of a member of the lower House [i.e. John Trenchard] in relation to a project for restraining and limiting the power of the crown in the future creation of peers.

Costumes and pastimes of the nobleman. Etching by J. Amman and VZ, 1579.

Love, lust, and license in early modern England : illicit sex and the nobility / Johanna Rickman.

Courtly Indian women in late imperial India / by Angma Dey Jhala.