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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... 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 guard and almost miraculously recaptured the ship ...
... 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 guard and almost miraculously recaptured the ship ...
Page 69
... officers preserved the peace , enforced public order , maintained the highways and administered the poor law and public relief under the supervision of the justices of the peace , the sheriff and lord lieutenant . Those who did the dogs ...
... officers preserved the peace , enforced public order , maintained the highways and administered the poor law and public relief under the supervision of the justices of the peace , the sheriff and lord lieutenant . Those who did the dogs ...
Page 147
... officers as a threat to the Constitution.1 Foreigners could not understand the British attitude to popular violence ; it seemed to them like the weakness that had precipitated the Terror . But the people who quietly obeyed their ...
... officers as a threat to the Constitution.1 Foreigners could not understand the British attitude to popular violence ; it seemed to them like the weakness that had precipitated the Terror . But the people who quietly obeyed their ...
Contents
The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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