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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Cricket matches and fives playing , the crowd at the fair gathered round the cudgellers ' high wooden stage , the squeak of a fiddle or the shrill cry of a mountebank with his Merry Andrew ...
Cricket matches and fives playing , the crowd at the fair gathered round the cudgellers ' high wooden stage , the squeak of a fiddle or the shrill cry of a mountebank with his Merry Andrew ...
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The gentlemen hunted , raced , shot , fished , read , played at billiards , cards and écarté , looked after their estates , sat on the Bench , and rode , danced and joined in charades with the ladies ...
The gentlemen hunted , raced , shot , fished , read , played at billiards , cards and écarté , looked after their estates , sat on the Bench , and rode , danced and joined in charades with the ladies ...
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Sometimes the play at these establishments would continue for two or three days before the infatuated gamblers broke up . At Crockford's , during the parliamentary session , supper , cooked by the great chef , Ude , was served from ...
Sometimes the play at these establishments would continue for two or three days before the infatuated gamblers broke up . At Crockford's , during the parliamentary session , supper , cooked by the great chef , Ude , was served from ...
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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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