The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 6 mai 2008 - 592 pages The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. "To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies, through the everyday lives of one extraordinary family. |
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Page 27
... company with the great Jacobean diplomat Sir Henry Wootton, ambassador at Venice. Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century. In the early seventeenth, it was still a novelty. But the ...
... company with the great Jacobean diplomat Sir Henry Wootton, ambassador at Venice. Such an itinerary would be conventional enough for the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century. In the early seventeenth, it was still a novelty. But the ...
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... company of attractive young men. By 16z1 his favorite was the charming and beautiful George Villiers, second son of a poor Leicestershire squire who, having attracted the king's attention in 1614, began an ascent that Clarendon would ...
... company of attractive young men. By 16z1 his favorite was the charming and beautiful George Villiers, second son of a poor Leicestershire squire who, having attracted the king's attention in 1614, began an ascent that Clarendon would ...
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... company wherein they are"1+ — and also with just about every female member of the Verney clan. By a bizarre conceit Doll became "the pretty plum rogue, my brother" in their correspondence; Ralph was "dear servant"; and Dillon himself ...
... company wherein they are"1+ — and also with just about every female member of the Verney clan. By a bizarre conceit Doll became "the pretty plum rogue, my brother" in their correspondence; Ralph was "dear servant"; and Dillon himself ...
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... Company in the early years resulted in a terrify- ingly high death rate. In 1618 the population of the colony was 1,000; six years later, after the arrival of perhaps as many as 4,000 Englishmen and women, it was about 1,5-00. In 1614 ...
... Company in the early years resulted in a terrify- ingly high death rate. In 1618 the population of the colony was 1,000; six years later, after the arrival of perhaps as many as 4,000 Englishmen and women, it was about 1,5-00. In 1614 ...
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... Company's Second Charter of 1609. Sir Thomas Denton, Sir Edmund's father-in-law, is named in the Third Charter of 1611. Both men ventured Jb 37 10s. in the Company. *Mun Verney to Ralph Verney, August 1s, 1637; M636/3. Barton [70] part ...
... Company's Second Charter of 1609. Sir Thomas Denton, Sir Edmund's father-in-law, is named in the Third Charter of 1611. Both men ventured Jb 37 10s. in the Company. *Mun Verney to Ralph Verney, August 1s, 1637; M636/3. Barton [70] part ...
Table des matières
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15 | |
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Will Provide | 79 |
A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
All the Physic in the World | 355 |
She Doth Not Rave | 379 |
The Levant Trader | 396 |
Natural Bias | 421 |
Good Husbandry | 446 |
Without Escutcheons | 466 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
MUN AND JACK | 297 |
None but Princes | 299 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
20 | 499 |
Acknowledgments FII Notes | 513 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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