Orfordness--secret site: A history of the establishment, 1915-1980

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Kinsey, Gordon

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Sailing Craft of East Anglia

Finch, Roger, Benham, Hervey

Humber Keels and Keelmen

Paget-Tomlinson, Edward

Schofield, Fred

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Lavenham Industrial Town

Dymond, David

Betterton, Alec

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The Washlanders: Tales of the wildfowlers, shepherds, and eel catchers of the Nene Washes

Gray, Phil

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A view into the village: A study in Suffolk building,

Sandon, Eric

The University and colleges of Cambridge

Tibbs, Rodney

Yorkshire's River Derwent

John Ogden

<p>The English Constitution has evolved through the centuries and within that framework the development of the great Offices of State has played a vital part. The Lord Chancellor, possibly the greatest of those officers, provides the subject of Nicholas Underhill's book. The title of chancellor was first applied to an English official in 1068, when his use of the king's seal on letters from the royal court showed them to be genuine, and has continued, with many changes and extensions of duties, until the present day.\nThomas à Becket; William Longchamp, who paid Richard I £3,000 for his appointment; William Wykeham, the son of a Hampshire peasant; Thomas Wolsey who, for the sheer extent of his power, was unique; Christopher Hatton, Elizabeth;s favourite; Clarendon; Lord Brougham, who transformed the English legal system in the nineteenth century -- all are included by the author amongst a complete list of Chancellors.\nThe office of Lord Chancellor is involved with many aspects of English history--legal, administrative and political--but Nicholas Underhill has successfully pulled all the strings together to make a most comprehensible and absorbing book.\nLord Elwyn-Jones says, I have great pleasure, therefore, in commending his study not only to those who are engaged in the administration of justice or in the business of government, but to all who are concerned with the workings of our institutions and who may wonder how they have developed through the centuries, and how they were influenced by the kinds of men who have occupied the Woolsack.</p>

The Lord Chancellor (Offices of state)

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