An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England is by Edward Potts Cheyney. The text says that in Saxon England cities scarcely existed except as fortified places of defence, and that far the greater part of the population lived in villages, as they probably had done in Roman and in prehistoric times. A body of nobles known as the witan joined with the king in most of the actions of government, and a shire was a grouping of hundreds with a similar gathering of its principal men for judicial, military, and fiscal purposes.
English merchants trading to the Netherlands in other articles than those controlled by the Staplers apparently received privileges of trade from the duke of Brabant as early as the thirteenth century. The text says that the growth of coöperation, like that of trade unions, has been dependent on successive modifications of the law.
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- Edward Potts Cheyney
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