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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were not too rigid there were the two licensed theatres , with their circular tiers of boxes to which admittance cost four shillings or more , their half - crown pit and upper galleries where , for a shilling , footmen and other humble ...
were not too rigid there were the two licensed theatres , with their circular tiers of boxes to which admittance cost four shillings or more , their half - crown pit and upper galleries where , for a shilling , footmen and other humble ...
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Mackerel , which could be bought at a penny a hundred on the beach at Bridport , fetched twice as many shillings in the London market . Long strings of pack - horses , travelling in file with a bell > tinkling from the leading horse ...
Mackerel , which could be bought at a penny a hundred on the beach at Bridport , fetched twice as many shillings in the London market . Long strings of pack - horses , travelling in file with a bell > tinkling from the leading horse ...
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Arable land in the Wye Valley , which in the seventeen - eighties had sold for ten pounds an acre , was letting by 1814 at forty shillings and selling at thirty years ' purchase . In the Lothians of Scotland , formerly the poorest of ...
Arable land in the Wye Valley , which in the seventeen - eighties had sold for ten pounds an acre , was letting by 1814 at forty shillings and selling at thirty years ' purchase . In the Lothians of Scotland , formerly the poorest of ...
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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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