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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... , Gardiner 1616 ofCuddesdon d. 1704 = i~ Jn. Stewkeley of Preshaw, Hants. Mary - Robert (Mall) (Robin) b. 14 Apr., Lloyd 1618 of Chester d. 1684 Elizabeth = Rev. Charles (Betty) Adams b. 11 Sept., of Great Baddow, 1633 Essex d. 17U.
... , Gardiner 1616 ofCuddesdon d. 1704 = i~ Jn. Stewkeley of Preshaw, Hants. Mary - Robert (Mall) (Robin) b. 14 Apr., Lloyd 1618 of Chester d. 1684 Elizabeth = Rev. Charles (Betty) Adams b. 11 Sept., of Great Baddow, 1633 Essex d. 17U.
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... Robert Hooke and Anthony a Wood. The urge to record the everyday and turn it into a testament was a powerful force in Stuart England. But a diary is always a monologue. Events are given a particular spin, made to conform to a single ...
... Robert Hooke and Anthony a Wood. The urge to record the everyday and turn it into a testament was a powerful force in Stuart England. But a diary is always a monologue. Events are given a particular spin, made to conform to a single ...
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... Robert Cecil, for permission to fell some timber that, he said, was growing on his own land and which would be his by right in a matter of months when he came of age. The reason for the urgency was that he needed to raise cash "for the ...
... Robert Cecil, for permission to fell some timber that, he said, was growing on his own land and which would be his by right in a matter of months when he came of age. The reason for the urgency was that he needed to raise cash "for the ...
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... Robert Carey, the prince's chamberlain; his comptroller, five grooms of the bedchamber, two gentlemen ushers of. *To be accurate, Digby was now the Earl of Bristol, having been elevated to the peerage the previous year. (And while we're ...
... Robert Carey, the prince's chamberlain; his comptroller, five grooms of the bedchamber, two gentlemen ushers of. *To be accurate, Digby was now the Earl of Bristol, having been elevated to the peerage the previous year. (And while we're ...
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... Robert Carey and Sir Spencer Compton decided to travel on to Madrid to make sure their master was safe, while Sir Edmund and five others agreed that another voyage through the Bay of Biscay was not for them: they would carry on by mule ...
... Robert Carey and Sir Spencer Compton decided to travel on to Madrid to make sure their master was safe, while Sir Edmund and five others agreed that another voyage through the Bay of Biscay was not for them: they would carry on by mule ...
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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