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 114
... Cranborne Chase gathered weekly at an inn on Salis- bury Plain for instrumental music and part singing ; the artisans of Lincoln formed a choral society to render Handel's Oratorios . This love of singing came out in the folk songs ...
... Cranborne Chase gathered weekly at an inn on Salis- bury Plain for instrumental music and part singing ; the artisans of Lincoln formed a choral society to render Handel's Oratorios . This love of singing came out in the folk songs ...
Page 118
... Cranborne Chase in Dorset had still nearly ten thousand deer ; Windsor Forest , Burnham Beeches and Epping , close to the capital , almost as many . In the Berkshire woodlands south of Reading , Mary Mitford described the forest - like ...
... Cranborne Chase in Dorset had still nearly ten thousand deer ; Windsor Forest , Burnham Beeches and Epping , close to the capital , almost as many . In the Berkshire woodlands south of Reading , Mary Mitford described the forest - like ...
Page 125
... Cranborne Chase and the bodgers of the Chilterns , the dog - breakers and gamekeepers , understrappers and wild rovers who were all to be found labouring in their place and season . These , too , were masters of their crafts , like the ...
... Cranborne Chase and the bodgers of the Chilterns , the dog - breakers and gamekeepers , understrappers and wild rovers who were all to be found labouring in their place and season . These , too , were masters of their crafts , like the ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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