Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II.
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
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Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S.: June 1st, 1663-Oct. 30th, 1666
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II. The Diary Deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, A.M. from the Original Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library. With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. The Sixth Edition
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.
Author: Samuel PepysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 490
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Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived in
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Pepyss Navy
Author: J. D. DaviesPublisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848320140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This new reference book describes every aspect the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era which witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in essence the birth of the Royal Navy. Every aspect of the navy is covered - naval administration, ship types and shipbuilding, naval recruitment and crews, seamanship and gunnery, shipboard life, dockyards and bases, the foreign navies of the period, and the three major wars which were fought against the Dutch in the Channel and the North Sea. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems for construction and administration, is one of the most significant players, and the navy which was, by 1690, ready for the 100 years of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless work. This book is destined to become a major work for historians, naval enthusiasts and, indeed, anyone with an interest in this colourful era of the seventeenth century.
The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys
Author: Edwin ChappellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000950336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In 1683 Samuel Pepys accompanied George Legge, Lord Dartmouth, to Tangier as his secretary. During the voyage Pepys kept another brief diary and miscellaneous notes which contain valuable information about the navy. He recorded his concerns, as well as the views of the sea officers and others with him. Richard Leake, master gunner, was criticised by Pepys for not being able to hit the side of the target, and for not being able to get the charges correct to blow up the forts. He recorded that Captain David Lloyd, a sea officer, was also a painter with a good reputation. Pepys records his views about the merits of gentleman captains and their behaviour compared to ‘tarpaulin captains’. He also collected in these Papers every story he could, about the alleged immorality and corruptness of Arthur Herbert, the commander-in-chief of the English Mediterranean fleet, in order to discredit him with the king. Herbert had, in fact, returned to England before Pepys had arrived in Tangier. The source of the stories about Herbert’s behaviour, in the Tangier Papers, came from old friends of Pepys and Herbert’s enemies, and are not to be trusted, or accepted as a true account of what Herbert achieved; this can only be traced through Herbert’s own letters and the unpublished admiralty papers in the Public Record Office.
The Social Life of Coffee
Author: Brian CowanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
The Microbook Library of English Literature: 1660 to 1784
Author: Library Resources, incPublisher:
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Category : Books on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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