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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... forces greater than even he could control . During his last years a radical but powerful minority of his subjects ... force . The popular reaction against the Smithfield fires , and the accession in 1558 of Anne Boleyn's daughter ...
... forces greater than even he could control . During his last years a radical but powerful minority of his subjects ... force . The popular reaction against the Smithfield fires , and the accession in 1558 of Anne Boleyn's daughter ...
Page 72
... force , broke the gates and pales and announced that the park was their own . Foreign visitors were always testifying to the rude strength of English democracy ; the king , wrote Sorbière , had to be free and easy with the nobility ...
... force , broke the gates and pales and announced that the park was their own . Foreign visitors were always testifying to the rude strength of English democracy ; the king , wrote Sorbière , had to be free and easy with the nobility ...
Page 147
... force or bureaucracy to secure property and privilege , the gentry had to preserve these themselves . Having no professional deputies as in more regimented lands to stand between them and those they ruled , they learnt to command ...
... force or bureaucracy to secure property and privilege , the gentry had to preserve these themselves . Having no professional deputies as in more regimented lands to stand between them and those they ruled , they learnt to command ...
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The Breach with Rome | 7 |
Approach to the Capital 15 12 253 | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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