CONTENTS

Chap. Page
I.Introduction[1]
II.Men who lived in Caves and Pits[3]
III.The Pit-dwellers[6]
IV.Earthworks, Mounds, Barrows, &c.[11]
V.In Roman Times[15]
VI.Early Saxon Times[19]
VII.Early Saxon Villages[22]
VIII.Anglo-Saxon Tuns and Vills[26]
IX.Tythings and Hundreds—Shires[29]
X.The Early English Town[33]
XI.In Early Christian Times[35]
XII.Monasteries[37]
XIII.Towns and Villages in the Time of Cnut
the Dane		[41]
XIV.Churches and Monasteries in Danish and
Later Saxon Times		[46]
XV.Later Saxon Times[50]
XVI.In Norman Times[52]
XVII.In Norman Times (continued)[54]
XVIII.In Norman Times: The Churches[56]
XIX.Castles[58]
XX.Castles and Towns[61]
XXI.In Norman Times: The Monasteries[64]
XXII.Early Houses[69]
XXIII.Early Houses (continued)[72]
XXIV.Early Town Houses[75]
XXV.Life in the Towns of the Middle Ages[79]
XXVI.The Growing Power of the Towns[85]
XXVII.The Villages, Manors, Parishes, and Parks[89]
XXVIII.Traces of Early Times in the Churches[93]
XXIX.Traces of Early Times in the Churches
(continued)		[97]
XXX.Clerks[100]
XXXI.Fairs[104]
XXXII.Markets[108]
XXXIII.Schools[113]
XXXIV.Universities[118]
XXXV.Changes brought about by the Black Death[122]
XXXVI.Wool[125]
XXXVII.The Poor[127]
XXXVIIIChanges in Houses and House-building[131]
XXXIX.The Ruins of the Monasteries and the New
Buildings		[135]
XL.The New House of the Time of Queen
Elizabeth		[139]
XLI.Larger Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses[142]
XLII.Churches after the Reformation[147]
XLIII. class="smcap">Building after the Restoration: Houses[149]
XLIV.Building after the Restoration: Churches[154]
XLV.Schools after the Reformation[159]
XLVI.Apprentices[168]
XLVII.Play[171]
XLVIII.Roads[175]
XLIX.Roads—Railways[182]
L.Government[190]
LI.Some Changes[195]