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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After the Civil Wars the value of land began to rise steadily as a result of agricultural improvements . ... laid out £ 5 an acre for marling , while Essex squires brought chalk from the Kentish cliffs to enrich their waste lands .
After the Civil Wars the value of land began to rise steadily as a result of agricultural improvements . ... laid out £ 5 an acre for marling , while Essex squires brought chalk from the Kentish cliffs to enrich their waste lands .
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Growing numbers of husbandmen who had enjoyed a small but vital stake in the land - a strip or two in the parish arable fields , pasture on the common for a few ragged cattle , pigs and geese , the right to gather manure and fuel ...
Growing numbers of husbandmen who had enjoyed a small but vital stake in the land - a strip or two in the parish arable fields , pasture on the common for a few ragged cattle , pigs and geese , the right to gather manure and fuel ...
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You must a cleean land , plenty a dress , and plenty a laiabour to git the increeas and , when ye a got these , the increeas comes.1 " Such a man when his time to die came could look round on an entire countryside which he had helped to ...
You must a cleean land , plenty a dress , and plenty a laiabour to git the increeas and , when ye a got these , the increeas comes.1 " Such a man when his time to die came could look round on an entire countryside which he had helped to ...
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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 California |
| Digitized | 26 May 2007 |
| Length | 359 pages |
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