... marriage the career of Lady Villiers had lain in the hands of her father and her mother; after her marriage it was, for atime, in the hands of her brother-in-law, Buckingham, as the career of Sir ... the trial of another member of Lady Elizabeth's family, namely her stepmother, Lady Exeter.[29]By the irony of fate, it happened that the two mortal enemies, Coke and Bacon, acted together ... mention the question of her marrying him. The motherand daughter were on one side and the father on the other; neither would yield an inch, and Hatton House,Holborn, became the scene of violent...