That comment is part of the blurb on the back of the paperback. It's a bit odd—there's a disconnection between the time of Claudius and the date 1161, when Henry II signed (or allegedly signed) his ordinance. The book is somewhat puzzling: it has indeed references, not just to books, but to Patent Rolls and MSs. And it's not really in sequence: the final chapter is on the Beare's Colledge and Charles I and II. The publication dates are uncertain: my copy has had its title page torn out, and it started life published by Robert Hale, but seems to be still in print in 2020, probably by print-on-demand technology. I wondered if this book was part of a newish corner of academia, more recent than (say) economic history) but I couldn't find many similar books.

According to Wikipedia, Ephraim Burford (1905-1997) was an 'English historian and author'. It adds 'Burford was born in London and trained as an optician before later taking an interest in history. He fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil War.'
      I thought perhaps he was related to the one-time Earl of Burford, with his interests in the real Shakespeare(s) and London. Bankside, on the south bank of London, included a few theatres. But I couldn't find such a link.
      However, Ephraim John Burford has a collection in Liverpool University. including correspondence, photographs, radio broadcasts, press cuttings, a propaganda booklet and ephemera relating to the week E. J. Burford spent in Barcelona, Spain during July 1936, and the military uprising he observed while he was there.
      ... Burford and his wife Nancy motored to Barcelona for the Olympics and became stuck there when the military uprising broke out [sic] on the 19th July. Burford broadcast English translations of the news from the government's Radio Barcelona before he and his wife were able to leave on Friday 24th July. Nothing like 'fighting', in fact.

We're told he was 'born in London in 1905, and became a socialist as a teenager', i.e. I suppose between 1916 and 1924. This of course probably means he supported Jews in Russia. There's a complete blank until he was about 65, presumably till retirement, though he 'was trained as an optician'. And 'The [Liverpool] collection was presented in 2005 by Sandra Schulman, the wife of Burford's nephew and executor.' Probably therefore part of the impetus behind this book was Jewish.

He is credited with half-a-dozen or so books: The Orrible Synne, first published in 1973; The Story of the Clink Prison first published in 1974; Of bridles and burnings first published in 1992; Bawdy verse first published in 1982; Private vices, public virtues by E. J. Burford, Joy Wotton, first published in 1995—the title refers to Mandeville's book.
      His first publication seems to have been 1973, suggesting he started researching when 65 or so. And is still published posthumously. I would guess—just a guess—that he may have had work in some Jewish government place.

There may, or may not, be some link with a new university, the University of Winchester, which proclaims itself The University for Sustainability and Social Justice (www.winchester.ac.uk) whose website is long on imagery and graphics, but short on information: I could find nothing on Jewish massacres, for example, or on revisionism. It looks like a SJW location for people to be trained as Jew sycophants.
      The Bishop of Winchester left a sort of legacy in the expression 'Winchester Geese', which lives on in an unhallowed graveyard, Crossbones Graveyard, Redcross Way, London SE1 1TA.

As might be expected, Burford has numerous examples of whorehouses, and the Saxon etymology, though we're told Saxons only had a house with a woman outside the general settlements. He says William the Conqueror owned several (I couldn't find the reference) and Paris had an area (I doubt it could have been a 'quarter') with passages called things like 'Gropecunt Lane' in French.
      One of my interests in this book was the possible conflict between Christians and Jews. Broadly speaking, Christians had at least some interest in controlling births and disease and populations, whereas Jews in accordance with secret Talmudic principles had no objection at all to spreading disease and misery and family ruin. This occurred to me when chatting to Deanna Spingola on Jews monopolising tax collection, lending, and booze, if they could. Why not profitable sex too? Cromwell is known for hating prostitution, but it could be that he was following instructions: and later, on the continent of Europe, brothels were legalised, and their clients included (((British))) monarchs and others. Islam is not even identified as a problem. Wars are not, either. The huge prostitution in WW1 (e.g. Goodbye to All That), the mass rapes in WW2 used more or less to give soldiers a diversion from Jewish money-making, and so on have not I think attracted the attention of many writers, who would in any case have been censored, except probably in Hebrew media.

The almost-forgotten E S Turner's 1950 Roads to Ruin has material on reforms, prostitution, Vauxhall pleasure gardens, and theatres.

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