Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
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The Countess of Needham and William Petty
There was one character that you uncovered a guy called William Petty and I was very struck by him because again he's living at this remarkable time. He's got this incredible intellect only so it seems he certainly got this incredible memory do you want to say a bit about his early life and how he sort of came to prominence? "William Petty is fascinating because he was the son of a very poor family of people in the cloth industry lived in the South Coast of England" The Countess couldn't be any greater really she's quite prepared to to fight to the last man to risk the death of her husband and to risk her own life yes in something that she believes in it's whereas Needham
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