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... England under Elizabeth Tudor : the character of the Queen as woman and monarch , the court and the system of royal or noble patronage as focus of endeavour for any man of talents or ambition , the relation in which England stood to the ...
... England under Elizabeth Tudor : the character of the Queen as woman and monarch , the court and the system of royal or noble patronage as focus of endeavour for any man of talents or ambition , the relation in which England stood to the ...
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... England no distance from the ladies of Althorp . Part of the courtship may have taken place in England during the poet's recent stay there but Elizabeth and her brother had come over to the neighbourhood of Cork apparently under the ...
... England no distance from the ladies of Althorp . Part of the courtship may have taken place in England during the poet's recent stay there but Elizabeth and her brother had come over to the neighbourhood of Cork apparently under the ...
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... England . Their interpretations of scripture and ' prophesyings ' were looked on with disfavour by authority . On a wider front affairs of Church and state could not be so peaceably resolved . The neighbours of England were Scotland and ...
... England . Their interpretations of scripture and ' prophesyings ' were looked on with disfavour by authority . On a wider front affairs of Church and state could not be so peaceably resolved . The neighbours of England were Scotland and ...
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