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This arithmetic book, inscribed "ALCE ARNOLD HER CYPHERING BOOK Printed in the year 1795 ALCE ARNOLD," is unusually complete, containing the usual procedures of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and progressing to various weights (dry, solid, avoirdupois, and troy), the rule of three, interest, and buying and selling stocks. There is also a section on "English money" and "federal money," and a poem, "A Hymn to Venus," on the last leaf.
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In this counting rhyme, an affectionate elephant family plays together.
Kip and Amanda, sixty-ish protagonists from previous adventures, continue their humorously dysfunctional relationship as Kip is asked to be a father figure to a troubled fourteen-year-old and plans to spend a summer of male bonding under sail, while Amanda decides to reconcile her husband with his memory of his overbearing, non-nurturing, departed mother. Of course, neither plan works out as expected, but their failures will put their marriage on the line.
Whilst much recent research has dealt with the popular response to the religious change ushered in during the mid-Tudor period, this book focuses not just on the response to broad liturgical and doctrinal change, but also looks at how theological and reform messages could be utilized among local leaders and civic elites. It is this cohort that has often been neglected in previous efforts to ascertain the often elusive position of the common woman or man. Using the Vale of Gloucester as a case study, the book refocuses attention onto the concept of "commonwealth" and links it to a gradual, but long-standing dissatisfaction with local religious houses. It shows how monasteries, endowed initial...
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