PREFACE
CONTENTS
OUR ENGLISH TOWNS AND VILLAGES
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II MEN WHO LIVED IN CAVES AND PITS
CHAPTER III THE PIT-DWELLERS
CHAPTER IV EARTHWORKS, MOUNDS, BARROWS, ETC.
CHAPTER V IN ROMAN TIMES
CHAPTER VI EARLY SAXON TIMES
CHAPTER VII EARLY SAXON VILLAGES
CHAPTER VIII ANGLO-SAXON TUNS AND VILLS
CHAPTER IX TYTHINGS AND HUNDREDS SHIRES
CHAPTER X THE EARLY ENGLISH TOWN
CHAPTER XI IN EARLY CHRISTIAN TIMES
CHAPTER XII MONASTERIES
CHAPTER XIII TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN THE TIME OF CNUT THE DANE
CHAPTER XIV CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES IN DANISH AND LATER SAXON TIMES
CHAPTER XV LATER SAXON TIMES
CHAPTER XVI IN NORMAN TIMES
CHAPTER XVII IN NORMAN TIMES ( Continued )
CHAPTER XVIII IN NORMAN TIMES: THE CHURCHES
CHAPTER XIX CASTLES
CHAPTER XX CASTLES AND TOWNS
CHAPTER XXI IN NORMAN TIMES: THE MONASTERIES
CHAPTER XXII EARLY HOUSES
CHAPTER XXIII EARLY HOUSES ( Continued )
CHAPTER XXIV EARLY TOWN HOUSES
CHAPTER XXV LIFE IN THE TOWNS OF THE MIDDLE AGES
CHAPTER XXVI THE GROWING POWER OF THE TOWNS
CHAPTER XXVII THE VILLAGES, MANORS, PARISHES, AND PARKS
CHAPTER XXVIII TRACES OF EARLY TIMES IN THE CHURCHES
CHAPTER XXIX TRACES OF EARLY TIMES IN THE CHURCHES ( Cont. )
CHAPTER XXX CLERKS
CHAPTER XXXI FAIRS
CHAPTER XXXII MARKETS
CHAPTER XXXIII SCHOOLS
CHAPTER XXXIV UNIVERSITIES
CHAPTER XXXV CHANGES BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE BLACK DEATH
CHAPTER XXXVI WOOL
CHAPTER XXXVII THE POOR
CHAPTER XXXVIII CHANGES IN HOUSES AND HOUSE-BUILDING
CHAPTER XXXIX THE RUINS OF THE MONASTERIES AND THE NEW BUILDINGS
CHAPTER XL THE NEW HOUSES OF THE TIME OF QUEEN ELIZABETH
CHAPTER XLI LARGER ELIZABETHAN AND JACOBEAN HOUSES
CHAPTER XLII CHURCHES AFTER THE REFORMATION
CHAPTER XLIII BUILDING AFTER THE RESTORATION: HOUSES
CHAPTER XLIV BUILDING AFTER THE RESTORATION: CHURCHES
CHAPTER XLV SCHOOLS AFTER THE REFORMATION
CHAPTER XLVI APPRENTICES
CHAPTER XLVII PLAY
CHAPTER XLVIII GOVERNMENT
CHAPTER XLIX SOME CHANGES
FOOTNOTES:
OUR ENGLISH
TOWNS AND VILLAGES
OUR ENGLISH
TOWNS AND VILLAGES
BY
H. R. WILTON HALL
Library Curator, Hertfordshire County Museum; Sub-Librarian St. Alban's Cathedral, &c. Author of "Hertfordshire: a Reading-Book of the County", &c.
I do love these ancient ruins,— We never tread upon them but we set Our foot upon some reverend history.
LONDON
BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.
GLASGOW AND DUBLIN
1906
