The British nation a history / by George MWrong . did the wandering minstrel or mountebank. The vil-lager himself stayed at home, ignorant and English had not known in their northern home thelife of the town, and for many generations they left un- Meagre foreign tenanted the Eomau towns in Britain. With trade of theearly English, the towns disappeared the commerce of whichthey were the symbol. Xo longer was a fleetof ships necessary to carry to Continental ports the pro-ducts of the field and of the mine,and the foreign trade of the English,in at least their earlier years, na
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . did the wandering minstrel or mountebank. The vil-lager himself stayed at home, ignorant and English had not known in their northern home thelife of the town, and for many generations they left un- Meagre foreign tenanted the Eomau towns in Britain. With trade of theearly English, the towns disappeared the commerce of whichthey were the symbol. Xo longer was a fleetof ships necessary to carry to Continental ports the pro-ducts of the field and of the mine,and the foreign trade of the English,in at least their earlier years, nar-rowed down to the one chief com-modity of slaves—captives in war andthose seized for crime or debt. Theolder commerce revived as years wenton, but down to the Xorman Con-quest it was still slight. In this early England there was arude plenty. Great numbers of swinefed in the forests upon acorns andnuts; there were herds of many cat-tle and great flocks of sheep, and apparently even thelower classes were meat-eaters, for the Church threatens5. WonKlTAN, Elevexth (enturt. 66 THE BRITISH NATION with penalties masters wlio give their servants meat on fast-days, like Friday. Fish was abundant on the coasts,but, owing to the difficulty of transportation,not in the interior. The peasants diet musthave been mainly of rudely cooked pork or other meat, and of a black bread made of barley and oats. Potatoes were of course unknown ; cabbage was the chief The food ofthe English,
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