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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Page 66
so full of rolling stones and the lanes so narrow that corn was carried , not in carts , but on the backs of horses , corded on wooden frames . The demands of the metropolis turned every highway near it into a quagmire , sodden with the ...
so full of rolling stones and the lanes so narrow that corn was carried , not in carts , but on the backs of horses , corded on wooden frames . The demands of the metropolis turned every highway near it into a quagmire , sodden with the ...
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Every coach had its inns of call in the towns along its route , where horses were changed . Innkeeping in England was regarded as a respectable profession ; at the “ Crown " , Mansfield , the landlord and his wife were gentlefolk .
Every coach had its inns of call in the towns along its route , where horses were changed . Innkeeping in England was regarded as a respectable profession ; at the “ Crown " , Mansfield , the landlord and his wife were gentlefolk .
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Yet almost every Englishman born within sight of a highroad or a field thought it the height of felicity to be “ well mounted on a spunky horse who would be well in front . ” The English loved horses ; O'Kelly , owner of Eclipse ...
Yet almost every Englishman born within sight of a highroad or a field thought it the height of felicity to be “ well mounted on a spunky horse who would be well in front . ” The English loved horses ; O'Kelly , owner of Eclipse ...
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Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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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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