



Produced by Al Haines










[Frontispiece: Le Prince Rupert.  Duc de Baviere et Cumberland.  From
the portrait by Honthorst in the Louvre Paris.]





RUPERT

PRINCE PALATINE


BY

EVA SCOTT


Late Scholar of Somerville College

Oxford




WESTMINSTER

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & Co.

NEW YORK

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

1900




SECOND EDITION




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PREFACE

It is curious that in these days of historical research so little has
been written about Rupert of the Rhine, a man whose personality was
striking, whose career was full of exciting adventure, and for whose
biography an immense amount of material is available.

His name is known to most people in connection with the English Civil
War, many have met with him in the pages of fiction, some imagine him
to have been