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Page 163
... town - life . shops or factories , and the great mass of the nation followed the plough and were tillers of the soil . The typical figures of mediaeval society were the knight and the husbandman rather than the artisan and the trader ...
... town - life . shops or factories , and the great mass of the nation followed the plough and were tillers of the soil . The typical figures of mediaeval society were the knight and the husbandman rather than the artisan and the trader ...
Page 164
... town - fields occupied a place no less important than the restricted area where stood their houses and shops . At Leicester1 the space within the circuit of the walls covered a hundred and thirty acres , while without it was almost ...
... town - fields occupied a place no less important than the restricted area where stood their houses and shops . At Leicester1 the space within the circuit of the walls covered a hundred and thirty acres , while without it was almost ...
Page 165
... towns is extremely obscure . Towns of During the Roman occupation municipal life attained some degree of importance , and Colchester , Lincoln , Gloucester , York and St. Albans ( Verulamium ) became prominent . The first four were ...
... towns is extremely obscure . Towns of During the Roman occupation municipal life attained some degree of importance , and Colchester , Lincoln , Gloucester , York and St. Albans ( Verulamium ) became prominent . The first four were ...
Page 166
... town - life in England was necessarily only temporary . The inveterate hatred of the Britons whom they had displaced , and later the Danish incursions , induced the English to seek the safety that fortresses alone could afford in ...
... town - life in England was necessarily only temporary . The inveterate hatred of the Britons whom they had displaced , and later the Danish incursions , induced the English to seek the safety that fortresses alone could afford in ...
Page 167
... town in England . Exeter , built on a hill , owed its prominence to the mouth of the Exe , which afforded anchorage for trading vessels and communi- cation with the Channel . It stands , indeed , in a class by itself ; it was a Roman ...
... town in England . Exeter , built on a hill , owed its prominence to the mouth of the Exe , which afforded anchorage for trading vessels and communi- cation with the Channel . It stands , indeed , in a class by itself ; it was a Roman ...
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