Excerpt from My Lady Castlemaine: Being a Life of Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Afterwards Duchess of Cleveland Castlemaine was chosen in preference to others because it is so that the lady is always called by Samuel Pepys and he (who has surely more right than Euripides to the name of the human has taught us how she may be looked upon with a kindly eye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.