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 130
... poor dyer , “ the corn was spoiled in the fields with wet , and when the winter came we would scoop out the middle of the soft distasteful loaf ; and to eat it brought on sickness . ” Such seasons fell with particular severity on the ...
... poor dyer , “ the corn was spoiled in the fields with wet , and when the winter came we would scoop out the middle of the soft distasteful loaf ; and to eat it brought on sickness . ” Such seasons fell with particular severity on the ...
Page 155
... Poor , a School for the Indigent Blind , and a number of free schools , all supported by what was called public patronage . Every village had at least one ancient en- dowment ; at East Burnham in Buckinghamshire there was a free school ...
... Poor , a School for the Indigent Blind , and a number of free schools , all supported by what was called public patronage . Every village had at least one ancient en- dowment ; at East Burnham in Buckinghamshire there was a free school ...
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... poor - rates , little more than £ 700,000 in 1750 , had risen to nearly eight millions . More than a fifth of the rural popula- tion of England and Wales - Scotland had no poor - law - was in receipt of some form of parochial relief ...
... poor - rates , little more than £ 700,000 in 1750 , had risen to nearly eight millions . More than a fifth of the rural popula- tion of England and Wales - Scotland had no poor - law - was in receipt of some form of parochial relief ...
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The Breach with Rome 7 | 7 |
Approach to the Capital | 15 |
Pepyss London | 22 |
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