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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... keep out rats . " " 2 As he took stock of his inheritance , Sir Harry discovered a wainscoted gallery at the top of the house . It was forty feet long , and crammed to over- flowing with more than 100,000 family and estate papers . They ...
... keep out rats . " " 2 As he took stock of his inheritance , Sir Harry discovered a wainscoted gallery at the top of the house . It was forty feet long , and crammed to over- flowing with more than 100,000 family and estate papers . They ...
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... Keeping on a few personal attendants and four gentlemen of the privy chamber, he packed the rest off to Santander, the Adventure, and the Bay of Biscay. Those who couldn't face another voyage like the one that had brought them to Spain ...
... Keeping on a few personal attendants and four gentlemen of the privy chamber, he packed the rest off to Santander, the Adventure, and the Bay of Biscay. Those who couldn't face another voyage like the one that had brought them to Spain ...
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... But he also had another and arguably more difficult job as marshal — that of keeping order within the sprawling precincts of the palace of Whitehall, the primary residence of the kings and queens part I. Edmund and Ralph.
... But he also had another and arguably more difficult job as marshal — that of keeping order within the sprawling precincts of the palace of Whitehall, the primary residence of the kings and queens part I. Edmund and Ralph.
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... Keeping up Claydon cost money , and he had to pay for his board at his mother's Drury Lane house . Court life , with its compli- cated etiquette of favors and obligations , was expensive . His pensions were paid at irregular intervals ...
... Keeping up Claydon cost money , and he had to pay for his board at his mother's Drury Lane house . Court life , with its compli- cated etiquette of favors and obligations , was expensive . His pensions were paid at irregular intervals ...
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... keep her unmarried until she was at least fourteen, the prospect of acquiring an heiress soon proved just too tempting for the Lybbes. Within a couple of months of Jane BlacknalTs death they had persuaded Mary's grandfather and a second ...
... keep her unmarried until she was at least fourteen, the prospect of acquiring an heiress soon proved just too tempting for the Lybbes. Within a couple of months of Jane BlacknalTs death they had persuaded Mary's grandfather and a second ...
Table des matières
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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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