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Infirm of purpose John Bayley ARMADA by Duff Hart-Davis Bantam Press, £16.95, pp. 224 ARMADA by Peter Padfield Gollancz, f14.95, pp. 208 THE SPANISH ARMADA by Colin Martin and......

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Edna Healey THE SIXTH GREAT POWER: BARINGS 1762-1929 by Philip Ziegler Collins, .f17.50, pp. 430 I n the second week of October 1890, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount......