Author: Edward Marston
Publisher: Allison & Busby
ISBN: 0749015314
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Nicholas Bracewell befriends a young beggar who is trying to eke out a living as a counterfeit crank, pretending to have spectacular epileptic fits in order to get money from gullible bystanders. When the beggar is murdered inside Bridewell, Nicholas has to pose as a beggar himself in order to get inside the notorious institution so that he can solve the crime. Counterfeiting of all kinds is exposed.
Author: Edward Marston
Publisher: Saint Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780312319502
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Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN: 9780955340291
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: A. V. Judges
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136483675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 630
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The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those who drifted into the London underworld and learnt its tricks. A thorough introduction contributes a full historical background and outlines contemporary social contexts.
Author: Henry Duff Traill
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Author: Henry Duff Traill
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 884
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Author: Henry Duff Traill
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Author: Henry Duff Traill
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Author: Thomas Harman
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Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Author: Peter Stubley
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1783376112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
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What would English history look like from the gutter? The past is traditionally told from the viewpoint of kings and queens, politicians and pioneers. But what about the people struggling to survive at the very lowest levels of society? Surely the poor are just as much a part of our heritage? A Pauper's History of England covers 1,000 years of poverty from Domesday right up to the twentieth century, via the Black Death and the English Civil War. It uses contemporary sources creatively to give the reader an idea of just what life was like for the peasants, paupers, beggars and the working poor as England developed from a feudal society into a wealthy superpower. Experience the past from a different perspective: ¥ Tour the England of the Domesday Book ¥ Make a solemn Franciscan vow of Poverty ¥ Join the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 ¥ Converse with Elizabethan beggars' and learn their secret language ¥ Meet the inmates of Bedlam Hospital and Bridewell Prison ¥ Enjoy a gin-soaked Georgian night of debauchery ¥ Spend the night in a workhouse ¥ Go slumming in Victorian London
