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William Taylor Was the Owner of a Shop in Paternoster Row with the Promising Name "The Ship" By the end of his life the successful businessman had managed to put by between 40 and 50 thousand pounds. By the standards of the eighteenth century that is an enormous
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"The Pleasures of Coition" are notable also because their publisher was convicted in England on a charge of filthy libel, and his case laid the foundation of the English law on obscene publications. And only in 1967 did this offence cease to be regarded as a serious crime
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In 1554 Mary the Bloody sent the twenty-year-old Princess Elizabeth to the Tower on a charge of crimes against the queen. The prisoner's fate was long in the balance, and the partisans of Charles V insisted on an execution. Fortunately, Mary decided otherwise. Two months later
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The School of Venus: a sex manual for women of the seventeenth century, London, 1680. The words in this text still strike one as bawdy vocabulary today, though the comparison with cows' teats is simply odd
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The helmet acquired the nickname "Horned Max" The armour itself was technologically unique and became an object of close study for English armourers. Made by the famous master Konrad Seusenhofer in Innsbruck between 1511 and 1514, the armour differed somewhat from its present appearance: the helmet was decorated
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