Social England: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Volume 6, Part 2Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann Putnam, 1909 |
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