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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... Church and Counter - Reforma- tion - they plundered the Spanish Main and , under Drake , broke into the closed Pacific and , following in the sea - steps of Magelan , circumnavigated the globe . When , with the Pope's blessing , Philip ...
... Church and Counter - Reforma- tion - they plundered the Spanish Main and , under Drake , broke into the closed Pacific and , following in the sea - steps of Magelan , circumnavigated the globe . When , with the Pope's blessing , Philip ...
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... Church government with Protestant tenet which ex- pressed the English genius for compromise . During the Inter- regnum the Anglican Church had suffered severely - its priests expelled , its estates alienated , its cathedrals desecrated ...
... Church government with Protestant tenet which ex- pressed the English genius for compromise . During the Inter- regnum the Anglican Church had suffered severely - its priests expelled , its estates alienated , its cathedrals desecrated ...
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... Church to which the majority of Englishmen belonged and whose membership conferred civic privilege . But the Church of England was supported by parliament less because it had a monopoly of truth as because it seemed the most suitable ...
... Church to which the majority of Englishmen belonged and whose membership conferred civic privilege . But the Church of England was supported by parliament less because it had a monopoly of truth as because it seemed the most suitable ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
Copyright | |
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