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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... Sir Tom Verney ( upper left ) , Sir Edmund " Mun " Verney ( upper right ) , and Mary Blacknall ( lower right ) reprinted with permission of Sir Edmund Verney and the Claydon House Trust ; photographs pro- vided by Photographic Survey ...
... Sir Tom Verney ( upper left ) , Sir Edmund " Mun " Verney ( upper right ) , and Mary Blacknall ( lower right ) reprinted with permission of Sir Edmund Verney and the Claydon House Trust ; photographs pro- vided by Photographic Survey ...
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... Sir Edmund Verney of Pendley , Kt . , = d . II Jan. 1600 = 2 . Ursula = = 3 . Kt . daughter of William St. Barbe and Mary ( afterward third wife of Sir Edmund of Pendley ) married second , William Clark of Hitcham , Bucks . d . 1670 Sir ...
... Sir Edmund Verney of Pendley , Kt . , = d . II Jan. 1600 = 2 . Ursula = = 3 . Kt . daughter of William St. Barbe and Mary ( afterward third wife of Sir Edmund of Pendley ) married second , William Clark of Hitcham , Bucks . d . 1670 Sir ...
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... Sir Peter Carew the younger d . 1588 Mary [ Old Lady Verney ] daughter of William Blakeney of Sparham , Norfolk married first , Geoffrey Turville ; second , William St. Barbe d . 1642 = Sir Edmund Verney of Middle Claydon , Bucks . Margaret ...
... Sir Peter Carew the younger d . 1588 Mary [ Old Lady Verney ] daughter of William Blakeney of Sparham , Norfolk married first , Geoffrey Turville ; second , William St. Barbe d . 1642 = Sir Edmund Verney of Middle Claydon , Bucks . Margaret ...
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... SIR EDMUND VERNEY Van Dyck's portrait of Sir Edmund Verney , knight - marshal of the king's household and , for the last two months of his life , standard - bearer to Charles I. MARGARET DENTON Margaret Denton of Hillesden , wife of Sir ...
... SIR EDMUND VERNEY Van Dyck's portrait of Sir Edmund Verney , knight - marshal of the king's household and , for the last two months of his life , standard - bearer to Charles I. MARGARET DENTON Margaret Denton of Hillesden , wife of Sir ...
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... Sir Ralph , for example , married his eldest son to the daughter of a ... Edmund inherited the Verney estates , the family had managed to acquire a ... Sir Edmund's forebears enclosed the park in the fifteenth century , and the family now ...
... Sir Ralph , for example , married his eldest son to the daughter of a ... Edmund inherited the Verney estates , the family had managed to acquire a ... Sir Edmund's forebears enclosed the park in the fifteenth century , and the family now ...
Table des matières
1 | |
A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
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 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
Acknowledgments | 511 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
None but Princes | 299 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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