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A(n) hypertext document such as this gives you a lot of freedom to jump around. Having jumped, however, it can be hard to get back where you were. So, I’m putting at the bottom of each page a “Contents” link back here. Your browser, of course, probably lets you back up freely through the pages you’ve recently visited.
You can look at the story I’m telling, moreover, from a number of angles.* Any imaginable “Table of Contents” would serve some points of view better than others. So, I’m providing several summaries and contextual aids:
- A short version of the story: one page, with links, for those who choose to live their lives in headlines;
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The “backbone sequence”: A fuller version of the story, running linearly from Frontispiece to Epilogue, but without a few digressions and diversions that I’ve found fascinating. I’ll try to tempt you into those with links, here and there. To follow the backbone, just move from page to page by clicking the right and left arrows at the top of each page.** Pages that aren’t on the backbone usually lack one or both of those arrows. You get to those digressionary pages either from the page index or by following links in the text.
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Some timelines:
- 1671-72: Consternation and Barratry (a principal though incomplete “Table of Contents” for the Backbone of this collection)
- Lifelines of William, Mary, and Michael, with their principal interactions
- Children of the Munroes and of the
Bacons; and
- 1671-72: Consternation and Barratry (a principal though incomplete “Table of Contents” for the Backbone of this collection)
- Some geographic maps at various levels of detail, showing where all this happened.
*Have I constructed an elephant?
**Or, equivalently, the "Back" and "Next" links at the bottom of the backbone pages.
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