Our English Towns and Villages

CONTENTS

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Chapter		Page
I.	Introduction	9
II.	Men who lived in Caves and Pits	11
III.	The Pit-Dwellers	14
IV.	Earthworks, Mounds, Barrows, etc.	19
V.	In Roman Times	22
VI.	Early Saxon Times	26
VII.	Early Saxon Villages	28
VIII.	Anglo-Saxon Tuns and Vills	32
IX.	Tythings and Hundreds—Shires	36
X.	The Early English Town	41
XI.	In Early Christian Times	44
XII.	Monasteries	46
XIII.	Towns and Villages in the Time of Cnut the Dane	51
XIV.	Churches and Monasteries in Danish and Later Saxon Times	56
XV.	Later Saxon Times	59
XVI.	In Norman Times	62
XVII.	In Norman Times (continued)	66
XVIII.	In Norman Times: The Churches	68
XIX.	Castles	71
XX.	Castles and Towns	74
XXI.	In Norman Times: The Monasteries	78
XXII.	Early Houses	81
XXIII.	Early Houses (continued)	85
XXIV.	Early Town Houses	88
XXV.	Life in the Towns of the Middle Ages	92
XXVI.	The Growing Power of the Towns	98
XXVII.	The Villages, Manors, Parishes, and Parks	102
XXVIII.	Traces of Early Times in the Churches	106
XXIX.	Traces of Early Times in the Churches (continued)	110
XXX.	Clerks	114
XXXI.	Fairs	118
XXXII.	Markets	123
XXXIII.	Schools	128
XXXIV.	Universities	133
XXXV.	Changes brought about by the Black Death	137
XXXVI.	Wool	140
XXXVII.	The Poor	143