[CONTENTS]

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I.Introduction[9]
II.Men who lived in Caves and Pits[11]
III.The Pit-Dwellers[14]
IV.Earthworks, Mounds, Barrows, etc.[19]
V.In Roman Times[22]
VI.Early Saxon Times[26]
VII.Early Saxon Villages[28]
VIII.Anglo-Saxon Tuns and Vills[32]
IX.Tythings and Hundreds—Shires[36]
X.The Early English Town[41]
XI.In Early Christian Times[44]
XII.Monasteries[46]
XIII.Towns and Villages in the Time of Cnut the Dane[51]
XIV.Churches and Monasteries in Danish and Later Saxon Times[56]
XV.Later Saxon Times[59]
XVI.In Norman Times[62]
XVII.In Norman Times (continued)[66]
XVIII.In Norman Times: The Churches[68]
XIX.Castles[71]
XX.Castles and Towns[74]
XXI.In Norman Times: The Monasteries[78]
XXII.Early Houses[81]
XXIII.Early Houses (continued)[85]
XXIV.Early Town Houses[88]
XXV.Life in the Towns of the Middle Ages[92]
XXVI.The Growing Power of the Towns[98]
XXVII.The Villages, Manors, Parishes, and Parks[102]
XXVIII.Traces of Early Times in the Churches[106]
XXIX.Traces of Early Times in the Churches (continued)[110]
XXX.Clerks[114]
XXXI.Fairs[118]
XXXII.Markets[123]
XXXIII.Schools[128]
XXXIV.Universities[133]
XXXV.Changes brought about by the Black Death[137]
XXXVI.Wool[140]
XXXVII.The Poor[143]
XXXVIII.Changes in Houses and House-building[149]
XXXIX.The Ruins of the Monasteries and the New Buildings[153]
XL.The New Houses of the Time of Queen Elizabeth[158]
XLI. Larger Elizabethan and Jacobean Houses[162]
XLII.Churches after the Reformation[166]
XLIII.Building after the Restoration: Houses[169]
XLIV.Building after the Restoration: Churches[174]
XLV.Schools after the Reformation[179]
XLVI.Apprentices[183]
XLVII.Play[185]
XLVIII.Government[189]
XLIX.Some Changes[193]

[OUR ENGLISH TOWNS AND VILLAGES]

[CHAPTER I]
INTRODUCTION

1. A little boy, who had been born in a log cabin in the backwoods of Canada, was taken by his father, when he was about eight years old, to the nearest settlement, for the first time in his life. The little fellow had never till then seen any other house than that in which he had been born, for the settlement was many miles away. "Father," he said, "what makes all the houses come together?"