Habakkuk

Caption: The brain child of Geoffrey Pyke, an unorthodox British inventor, was Habbakuk, a gigantic aircraft carrier made from ice which could provide air cover for the vulnerable convoys in the middle of the North Atlantic.

(21.) David Cannadine, "Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century: The Case Reopened," Economic History Review 30 (1977): 624-50; John Habbakuk, "The Rise and Fall of English Landed Families," Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, 29 (1979): 187-207; David Spring, "Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century: A Comment," Economic History Review n.s., 33 (Nov.

The ship, named the Habbakuk, was eventually considered seaworthy.

Another song, which Patsy penned herself, is based on Habbakuk's Prayer in the Bible.

Her ownership of William as "my Theam" in the above lines is a reference to her poems "Upon King William Passing the Boyn" and "A Pindarick Poem on Habbakuk," both of which are responded to repeatedly in the Athenian Mercury and helped the Athenians to package Rowe "as a Protestant whiggish mascot to prove to the readers of the Mercury that virtue--specifically feminine virtue--and Whig sentiments were not mutually exclusive" (Prescott 155-156).

Laslett was part of a remarkable cohort of undergraduate historians at St John's College, Cambridge in the late 1930s which included the likes of John Habbakuk and Edward Miller.