The British nation a history / by George MWrong . - the king and the clergybefore the altar. In turmoil and bloodshed began Will-iams lawful reign, and in them it was to continne till noone dared to raise a hand against him. Books for Reference * Green, The Making of England (449-829), (2 vols., 1897); * Green,The Conquest of England (829-1071), (2 vols., 1899); Conybeare, Al-fred in the Chroniclers (1900), (mainly extracts from Chronicles); Free-man, The Norman Conquest (6 vols., 1867-79); Ramsay, The Foun-dations of England (2 vols., 1898). CHAPTER V Pre-Norman Civilization in England Under
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . - the king and the clergybefore the altar. In turmoil and bloodshed began Will-iams lawful reign, and in them it was to continne till noone dared to raise a hand against him. Books for Reference * Green, The Making of England (449-829), (2 vols., 1897); * Green,The Conquest of England (829-1071), (2 vols., 1899); Conybeare, Al-fred in the Chroniclers (1900), (mainly extracts from Chronicles); Free-man, The Norman Conquest (6 vols., 1867-79); Ramsay, The Foun-dations of England (2 vols., 1898). CHAPTER V Pre-Norman Civilization in England Under Eoman rule Britain had become a highly civ-ilized land, with an extensive trade. But the English con-queror who succeeded Kome cared nothingfor the trade, and it was completely the cultivation of the soil he did care;it remained for centuries almost his sole in-dustry. Apparently in some districts the Englishmanstepped into the j)lace of the former Roman master, made The nature ofthe earlycommunities ofthe English,. (/aKTS, f^LEVENTIl CKXTIKY. Note tlie grmd, iiisti-ad of a wliip. jind tlie t-inalliiLssof the cattlu uf the time. slaves ot tlio (>onquered people, and forced them to tillthe soil, wliile in others tlie Briton disappeared, perhapswholly, and the English founded village communities oftheir own race, on the model of their (Jerman coinniiinities were very small, containing rarelymore than a dozen freemen, and sometimes only themembers of a single family; Wellington was the tonor defensive mound of the AVellings; the Asliings, theAVokings, and others dwelt in Inims or villages calledby their names (Ashingham, Wokingham). Each freemanG3 PRE-NORMAN CIVILIZATION IN ENGLAND G3 The manor. had his own cottage with its little plot of ground, but tliefarm-land was divided into strips in great open fields,and a reallotment of these strips was made from time totime. The wood and jjasture land was also held in com-mon, and the right to cut fuel and to pas
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