PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES

CHAPTER I Introduction

CHAPTER II Men who lived in Caves and Pits

CHAPTER III The Pit-dwellers

CHAPTER IV Earthworks, Mounds, Barrows, and c.

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 ( Cont. )

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 ( Cont. )

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 Roads

CHAPTER XLIX Roads Railways

CHAPTER L Government

CHAPTER LI Some Changes

FOOTNOTES:

Transcriber's note:
Minor spelling inconsistencies, mainly hyphenated words, have been harmonized. Obvious typos have been corrected. A "List of Illustrations and Diagrams" has been added so as to include the illustrations and diagrams not in the "List of Plates." Please see the end of this book for further notes.