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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... lords ; the younger sons of a viscount or baron , honourables . There their transmitted dignities ended . Save for the eldest male their grandchildren were all commoners with the same prefix as groom and gamekeeper . Kinship with them ...
... lords ; the younger sons of a viscount or baron , honourables . There their transmitted dignities ended . Save for the eldest male their grandchildren were all commoners with the same prefix as groom and gamekeeper . Kinship with them ...
Page 84
... lords would pay £ 400 or more for the hire of one of Mr. Bakewell's rams , and yeomen would club together to establish cart- horse and ploughing tests . The country gentleman who did not look after his estate lost as much caste as he ...
... lords would pay £ 400 or more for the hire of one of Mr. Bakewell's rams , and yeomen would club together to establish cart- horse and ploughing tests . The country gentleman who did not look after his estate lost as much caste as he ...
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... Lord Melbourne's Whig Cabinet of 1835 , eleven out of fourteen members were lords or the sons of lords : in its Tory successor of 1841 , nine . Yet , though until 1832 a magnifico like the Duke of Buckingham could return a dozen members ...
... Lord Melbourne's Whig Cabinet of 1835 , eleven out of fourteen members were lords or the sons of lords : in its Tory successor of 1841 , nine . Yet , though until 1832 a magnifico like the Duke of Buckingham could return a dozen members ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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