This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... IV. THE PEASANTS' REVOLT 'THE early prosperity of St. Albans abbey was reflected upon the town. In 1086 we learn from the Domesday Survey the town comprised forty-six burgesses, four Frenchmen possibly brought there by Paul de Caen the first Norman abbot, sixteen villein tenants and thirteen bordars. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... IV. THE PEASANTS' REVOLT 'THE early prosperity of St. Albans abbey was reflected upon the town. In 1086 we learn from the Domesday Survey the town comprised forty-six burgesses, four Frenchmen possibly brought there by Paul de Caen the first Norman abbot, sixteen villein tenants and thirteen bordars. These composed the inhabitants of a medium-sized agricultural town, the burgesses and Frenchmen representing the trading community and the villeins and bordars the agricultural. The needs of the abbey with its ceaseless stream of visitors, its great concourse of pilgrims and its activities as a centre of literature, art and industry, brought wealth to the town and traffic to its market. Besides which the town was the first stage out of London for passengers and goods passing to and from the Midlands and the North. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries burgesses of St. Albans are found rich and prosperous in London and other parts of England, and even in France. Henry of St. Albans, Sheriff of London in 1206, was one of the wealthiest citizens of London in the early part of the thirteenth century, Master Robert of St. Albans was Henry the third's physician, Lawrence of St. Albans was a justice of the Forest, while Adam de Nedham and other merchants of St. Albans acquired special privileges for trading throughout the country. 'Lord Trenchaunt' of St. Albans, a knight, according to Stow, was the builder and benefactor of St. Mildred's Church, London, early in the fourteenth century, and John of St. Albans was sheriff in 1362. The principal trade at St. Albans at this time was in cloth. In 1202 King John confirmed to the men of the borough the right to buy and sell their cloth as they had had in the time of Henry II. This confirmation carries...
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