Set in a Silver SeaDoubleday, 1968 - 359 pages A 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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Page 29
... in Paternoster Row , and drapers and booksellers in Paul's Churchyard . And the fashionable folk of the West End continued to inhabit the stately porticoed houses of Covent Garden and Lincoln's Inn Fields - both PEPYS'S LONDON 29.
... in Paternoster Row , and drapers and booksellers in Paul's Churchyard . And the fashionable folk of the West End continued to inhabit the stately porticoed houses of Covent Garden and Lincoln's Inn Fields - both PEPYS'S LONDON 29.
Page 76
... continued enjoyment by elaborate entails on their elder children . But they valued them almost entirely for what they brought in freedom and ease to themselves . They extended and improved their domains and cheated the king's Exchequer ...
... continued enjoyment by elaborate entails on their elder children . But they valued them almost entirely for what they brought in freedom and ease to themselves . They extended and improved their domains and cheated the king's Exchequer ...
Page 105
... continued to fight on and , in the end , with the allies she had financed , armed and helped to liberate , had utterly broken him and his power . Yet for all her immense sacrifices , she had grown richer than ever before . Though it had ...
... continued to fight on and , in the end , with the allies she had financed , armed and helped to liberate , had utterly broken him and his power . Yet for all her immense sacrifices , she had grown richer than ever before . Though it had ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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