. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . AXll ITS HOUSES (Liitlrdl rmlter). Sol! Tin-: BLAGK DEATH, AXD SADDLE HOUSES (IIS. 234: LoJkiaa Libmrii, OrJorJ). RoyalProgress. not unfounded grievance with Members of Parliament thatthey niio-ht lie subjected by the Crown to a heavy tine for alate arrival at Westminster, wliich was due to the stateof the highruads \vlii(.:h they liad to traverse. A collection of statistics has popularised th
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . AXll ITS HOUSES (Liitlrdl rmlter). Sol! Tin-: BLAGK DEATH, AXD SADDLE HOUSES (IIS. 234: LoJkiaa Libmrii, OrJorJ). RoyalProgress. not unfounded grievance with Members of Parliament thatthey niio-ht lie subjected by the Crown to a heavy tine for alate arrival at Westminster, wliich was due to the stateof the highruads \vlii(.:h they liad to traverse. A collection of statistics has popularised the fact that inthe iliddle Ages carriage of goods was cheap. But it has Ijeeujustly pointed out that this is not to be interpreted as evi-dence of the good cpiality of tlic roads so much as suggestingthe great quantity of the country carts which di<l the carriage-These were the carts which tlie royal purveyors appropriatedwithout stint, ignoring the statutable claim of their poor ownersto compensation fir the use. Even casual travellers were liableto have their luggage turned out anywhere upon the road andthe cart which conveyed it impounded for the use of anulii(|uitous court. Indicd fir slieer destructiveness, the myaljourneys resembled the flight of a s
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