Set in a Silver SeaA social history of England from the days of the first Stuart king, James, when England was largely an agricultural and rural country, through the reign of Queen Victoria, when England had become the world's foremost industrial and Imperial giant. |
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Throwing down the gauntlet to the former - the world's greatest empire and the militant champion of the Roman Church and Counter - Reformation - they plundered the Spanish Main and , under Drake , broke into the closed Pacific and ...
Throwing down the gauntlet to the former - the world's greatest empire and the militant champion of the Roman Church and Counter - Reformation - they plundered the Spanish Main and , under Drake , broke into the closed Pacific and ...
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The national religion as re - established by law in 1660 was Anglicanism - that temperate and homely blend of ancient Catholic ritual and Church government with Protestant tenet which expressed the English genius for compromise .
The national religion as re - established by law in 1660 was Anglicanism - that temperate and homely blend of ancient Catholic ritual and Church government with Protestant tenet which expressed the English genius for compromise .
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It was true there was a State Church to which the majority of Englishmen belonged and whose membership conferred civic privilege . But the Church of England was supported by parliament less because it had a monopoly of truth as because ...
It was true there was a State Church to which the majority of Englishmen belonged and whose membership conferred civic privilege . But the Church of England was supported by parliament less because it had a monopoly of truth as because ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Set in a Silver Sea Anchor A680 Volume 680 of Anchor books Doubleday anchor books English social history |
| Author | Arthur Bryant |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1968 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 31 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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