The British nation a history / by George MWrong . price of grain fluctuated wildly indifferent localities, the variation amounting to as muchas 600 per cent, in a single year. In Edward Fs time England was mainly agricultural, but when Henry YII ruled she had become a manufacturing state. Though cloth was her great staple of Growtliof manufacture, she had in addition iron forges industrial ufe ° in England, and and mines; she made guns, ships, carpets,importance of q^^^ , ^^(j g^g |-|^g L^^ Countries, far more im- the towns, -,?,?, ^? it ^ 1 portant a little earlier, had now begun todecline, s
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . price of grain fluctuated wildly indifferent localities, the variation amounting to as muchas 600 per cent, in a single year. In Edward Fs time England was mainly agricultural, but when Henry YII ruled she had become a manufacturing state. Though cloth was her great staple of Growtliof manufacture, she had in addition iron forges industrial ufe ° in England, and and mines; she made guns, ships, carpets,importance of q^^^ , ^^(j g^g |-|^g L^^ Countries, far more im- the towns, -,?,?, ^? it ^ 1 portant a little earlier, had now begun todecline, she was becoming the industrial centre of north-ern Europe. The scene of this growth of wealth andindustry was the town. From the first the town was sub-ject to the authority of the lord upon whose land it grewup—in some cases of the king, in others of a great 252 THE BRITISH NATION baron, a bishop, or an abbey. The towns which hadthe king for their lord thought themselves happy, forhe was distant, and interfered little if his financial.
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