Walking through the picture collection of the Earls of Sandwich at Hinchingbrooke House, Boyle describes each portrait and tells the life of its sitter. Edward Montagu, first Earl of Sandwich and Pepys’s patron, appears with his Spanish beard, alongside the rakish Earl of Rochester, Lady Carteret and the family of the Winter Queen.
A gallery of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century lives for lovers of English family history. Download the free EPUB.