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Fragments of Two Centuries: Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
Alfred Kingston
Country life under George the Third has almost vanished from memory, but the parish records remember. Alfred Kingston gathers glimpses of rural England across two centuries, with an appendix charting the rise and fall of village populations. A richly detailed portrait of old country ways. Step into the fields and cottages of a Britain now long gone.
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48 chapters
- 1FRAGMENTS OF TWO CENTURIES.
- 2GLIMPSES OF COUNTRY LIFE WHEN GEORGE III. WAS KING.
- 3ILLUSTRATED.
- 4WITH AN APPENDIX SHOWING THE RISE AND FALL OF THE RURAL POPULATION IN 45 PARISHES IN THE ROYSTON DISTRICT, IN HERTS., CAMBS., AND ESSEX, FROM 1801 TO 1891.
- 5ALFRED KINGSTON.
- 6ROYSTON: WARREN BROTHERS. 1893.
- 7PREFACE.
- 8CONTENTS.
- 9LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 10FRAGMENTS OF TWO CENTURIES.
- 11CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.—"THE GOOD OLD TIMES."
- 12CHAPTER II. GETTING ON WHEELS—OLD COACHES, ROADS AND HIGHWAYMEN—THE ROMANCE OF THE ROAD.
- 13OLD STAGE WAGON, A.D. 1800.
- 14TO THE PUBLIC. THE OLD ROYSTON COACH ONCE MORE REVIVED. CALLED THE TELEGRAPH.
- 15THE "FOX AND HOUNDS," BARLEY, HERTS.
- 16CHAPTER III. SOCIAL AND PUBLIC LIFE—WRESTLING AND COCK-FIGHTING—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY DEBATING CLUB.
- 17LADY IN REIGN OF GEORGE III.
- 18OLD JOCKEY HOUSE—KING JAMES' STABLES.
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