Samuel Pepys
Not Just the Tudors
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Peeps's Collection of Ballads
den elizabeth absolutely using her scholarship to give an answer to this violent and philandering husband of hers. Now, you mentioned that his library survives, and this is amazing and wonderful. And you say in the book that there are two thousand 971 volumes, but that that is different from the number of titles. So can you tell us, first of all, how many titles you think there are, and then what this disparity between volumes and titles tells us about the sort of reading materials that existed at the time? Yes, i cannot remember ofo my head how many titles there are, but there are many more than are in the volume.
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