"My Merry Rockhurst": Being Some Episodes in the Life of Viscount Rockhurst, a Friend of King Charles the Second, and at One Time Constable of His Majesty's Tower of LondonCastle, Egerton
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"My Merry Rockhurst": Being Some Episodes in the Life of Viscount Rockhurst, a Friend of King Charles the Second, and at One Time Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London
Castle, Egerton
Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction; Tower of London (London, England) -- Fiction
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