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 43
... battle of Southwold Bay , and , after the captain and officers had been sent off , had been stowed under hatches with the remaining survivors . Unarmed and urging them on with his whistle , he led them in a surprise assault on the Dutch ...
... battle of Southwold Bay , and , after the captain and officers had been sent off , had been stowed under hatches with the remaining survivors . Unarmed and urging them on with his whistle , he led them in a surprise assault on the Dutch ...
Page 88
... battle - cry in the armoury of English freedom ; it dominated the constitution . Those assembled in parliament did not represent numbers but 1 In London a small patrol of less than fifty mounted men was maintained to guard its ...
... battle - cry in the armoury of English freedom ; it dominated the constitution . Those assembled in parliament did not represent numbers but 1 In London a small patrol of less than fifty mounted men was maintained to guard its ...
Page 346
... battle of , 75 palace , 137 , 139 Blood , Col. Thomas , 32 Blundell , William , 45 , 51 , 57 , 59 , 67 Blunt , Wilfrid Scawen , 238 Boleyn , Anne , q . , 10 Bologna , 179 Bolton , 92 , 200 , 201 , 258 Bombay , 60 Bonington , Richard ...
... battle of , 75 palace , 137 , 139 Blood , Col. Thomas , 32 Blundell , William , 45 , 51 , 57 , 59 , 67 Blunt , Wilfrid Scawen , 238 Boleyn , Anne , q . , 10 Bologna , 179 Bolton , 92 , 200 , 201 , 258 Bombay , 60 Bonington , Richard ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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