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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... Quaker's and Roman Catholicism . The Quakers had few friends . Despite the ultimate gentleness of their tenets , their outrages against contemporary manners won them enemies in all places . One of them , a woman , rose in the middle of ...
... Quaker's and Roman Catholicism . The Quakers had few friends . Despite the ultimate gentleness of their tenets , their outrages against contemporary manners won them enemies in all places . One of them , a woman , rose in the middle of ...
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... Quaker Penn in 1682 ; the Carolinas , New York and the shores of the Hudson ; treaties with the Turks and Moors to make Englishmen free of the Mediter- ranean ; trading settlements at Bombay and Fort William , and dusky ambassadors ...
... Quaker Penn in 1682 ; the Carolinas , New York and the shores of the Hudson ; treaties with the Turks and Moors to make Englishmen free of the Mediter- ranean ; trading settlements at Bombay and Fort William , and dusky ambassadors ...
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... Quaker to shut his shop , which reopened the moment they had gone . In such a society scarcely anything was planned . Man was left 1 Hutchins , Public Health Agitation 64 ; Bury I , 252 ; Clapham I 36–7 ; English Spy I 191 ; Fremantle I ...
... Quaker to shut his shop , which reopened the moment they had gone . In such a society scarcely anything was planned . Man was left 1 Hutchins , Public Health Agitation 64 ; Bury I , 252 ; Clapham I 36–7 ; English Spy I 191 ; Fremantle I ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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