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Now in the collection of Sir Peter Purbecke, at Wricklesmarsh Court, Black-heath. "This noble work has been indifferently assigned to various periods; the most general opinion, however, pronounces it to be a copy of an earlier work of Alkamenes, or possibly Kephisodotos.
This continued three hours together until Night, and no Magistrate or Officer of the Peace once showed himself to stop this Tumult: so the poor man being above eighty years of age, died of this violence, and no Inquisition was taken of it, nor any of the Malefactors discovered in the City." On the 26th of February Chamberlain wrote to Carleton: "The Lady Purbecke w^th her young sonne, and Sr.
"I have received the King's command and your directions in your letters to bring my Lord of Purbecke out of London which I have done and have made no noise of it and have done all I could to give no scandal to the Duke or Viscount: He is now at Hampton Court, but is not willing to go any further till the king send express commande that he shall not staye here.
The matter was placed in the hands of the English Ambassador, and he describes what followed in a letter from Paris to the Secretary of State in England: "Rt. Honble. "Your honours letters dated the 7th March I received the 21 the same style by the Courrier sent to serve his Majesties writt upon the Lady Viscountesse Purbecke. They came to me about 11 of the clock in the Morning.
"The Lord of Purbecke is out of order likewise, for this day feurtnight getting into a roome next the street in Wallingford house, he beat down the glasse windowes with his bare fists and all bloudied &c." If this be true, may it not be possible that he was trying to break his way out of a room in which Buckingham had locked him up on the pretence that he was insane?
Chamberlain wrote to Carleton: "MY VERY SWEETE LORD: " ... The Viscount Purbecke followed the court a good while in very goode temper, and there was speech of making 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,
There you told me of one that had made a great offer of an easy and safe cure of your G. brother the Ld. Purbecke. "That it much trobbled you when he did but beginne to express himselfe because he sayde he would doe it bye onlye touchinge his head with his hands w^ch made yo^r Grace jealous in as much as he mentioned noe Naturall Medicine.
But I shall be talking the matter over with Sir Peter Purbecke, who's just come back to Wricklesmarsh from the Continent, and, provided ahem! you don't go talking about this affair, I should feel justified in recommending him to make you some substantial acknowledgment for any well, little inconvenience you may have been put to on account of your slight connection with the business, and the steps I may have thought proper to take in consequence.
Aimes that knoweth my Lord of Purbecke and fitte to be employed by rate he hath power to persuade him. I beseech you grant me fair of this and you shall have it me "To be your faithfull servant ever to be commanded "HAMPTON COURT "this 2 of September."
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