Epochs and episodes of historyWard Lock & Company, 1882 |
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... London - The Countess of Huntingdon - The Wesleys - The Wes- leys become Itinerants - Spread of Methodism , Lay Preachers , Provincial Mobs - Illustrious Allies- Ireland , Scotland , Wales - Methodist Denominations -General Results ...
... London - The Countess of Huntingdon - The Wesleys - The Wes- leys become Itinerants - Spread of Methodism , Lay Preachers , Provincial Mobs - Illustrious Allies- Ireland , Scotland , Wales - Methodist Denominations -General Results ...
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... London - The Postboy considered - Dangers of " Riders " - The Cross - Post instituted - Ralph Allen - Mr . Palmer and Mail Coaches - The Old Mail to Bath Rowland Hill : His Investigations ; His Pamphlet upon Postal Reform - Up - hill ...
... London - The Postboy considered - Dangers of " Riders " - The Cross - Post instituted - Ralph Allen - Mr . Palmer and Mail Coaches - The Old Mail to Bath Rowland Hill : His Investigations ; His Pamphlet upon Postal Reform - Up - hill ...
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... London in the Guildhall - Wyatt finds the Gates of London Bridge closed against him - Four Days of Armed Suspense Marches to Kingston - Enters London - Is Defeated and Imprisoned Mary's Vengeance Wyatt is Executed- Philip comes at last ...
... London in the Guildhall - Wyatt finds the Gates of London Bridge closed against him - Four Days of Armed Suspense Marches to Kingston - Enters London - Is Defeated and Imprisoned Mary's Vengeance Wyatt is Executed- Philip comes at last ...
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... London , had his " vision of Piers Plowman " by a burnside among the Malvern Hills . It was a biting satire on the priests and nobles , the friars who . " preached the people for profit of their bellies , " the jesters , the gluttonous ...
... London , had his " vision of Piers Plowman " by a burnside among the Malvern Hills . It was a biting satire on the priests and nobles , the friars who . " preached the people for profit of their bellies , " the jesters , the gluttonous ...
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... London parson attacked him with vile ribaldry , and the wind , sweeping the flames from him , prolonged his sufferings ; and by his side there fell a hum- bler martyr , a simple London tailor , who had no better reply to the puzzling ...
... London parson attacked him with vile ribaldry , and the wind , sweeping the flames from him , prolonged his sufferings ; and by his side there fell a hum- bler martyr , a simple London tailor , who had no better reply to the puzzling ...
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