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 55
... whole regiment of pitiful tatterdemalions beating to start a hare . ” 1 For , reared in a communal household drawn from every rank in rural society , a seventeenth century country gentleman was in little dan- ger of growing up out of ...
... whole regiment of pitiful tatterdemalions beating to start a hare . ” 1 For , reared in a communal household drawn from every rank in rural society , a seventeenth century country gentleman was in little dan- ger of growing up out of ...
Page 58
... whole land . Black dray- and coach - horses from Leicestershire , turkeys and geese from Essex and Suffolk that marched every autumn Londonwards in armies along the eastern highways , poultry from sandy Surrey commons , and hogs ...
... whole land . Black dray- and coach - horses from Leicestershire , turkeys and geese from Essex and Suffolk that marched every autumn Londonwards in armies along the eastern highways , poultry from sandy Surrey commons , and hogs ...
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... whole county , till the spires of Norwich rose before one , the greatest town in England for the making of stuffs and worsted stock- ings . In the south - west was the quality trade . This was the broadcloth manufacture which clothed ...
... whole county , till the spires of Norwich rose before one , the greatest town in England for the making of stuffs and worsted stock- ings . In the south - west was the quality trade . This was the broadcloth manufacture which clothed ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 1 2000 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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