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.