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Risings At Midnight

Kevin Sharpe The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart England J. T. Cliffe (Routledg e & Kegan Paul £18.95) W e cannot escape them. They will always be......

Books

The art of self-defence Ferdinand Mount Rut, Chancellor: An Inquiry into the Treasury Hugo Young and Anne Sloman (BBC £5.95) Government and the Governed: The 1983 Reith Lectures......