CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I | His Birth and Family | [1] |
| II | An Irish Childhood | [15] |
| III | Schooldays at Eton | [34] |
| IV | The Manor of Stalbridge | [55] |
| V | The House of the Savoy | [70] |
| VI | Robyn goes Abroad | [85] |
| VII | The Debacle | [99] |
| VIII | In England Again | [122] |
| IX | The Deare Squire | [140] |
| X | A Kind of Elysium | [159] |
| XI | Hermetic Thoughts | [170] |
| XII | Oxford: a Learned Junto | [189] |
| XIII | Politics and Philosophy | [206] |
| XIV | The Restoration and the Royal Society | [226] |
| XV | The Plague and the Fire | [246] |
| XVI | A New London | [267] |
| XVII | The House in Pall Mall | [282] |
| Index | [311] |