Image 7.
Sketch of Lady Mary Villiers as Royalist Courier & Intelligencer
during
the Interregnum
In Wits &
Beaux of Society by Grace and Philips Wharton, 2 vols. (London, 1890)
Illustrations
by H.K. Browne & James Godwin
Mary Villiers
accepts royalist communiques from her brother, George Villiers, second Duke
of
Buckinham,who
hides in plain sight in the streets of Cromwell's London,
disguised
as Merry Andrew.