Excerpt from The Shakespearean Guide to Stratford-on-Avon: With Chapters on Warwick, Kenilworth, and "the Shakespeare Country" Generally England in spite of, rather than in consequence of, the conditions under which the people lived. In the later days of bluff King Hal there was terrible privation in this agricultural district; the general introduction of wool-growing in place of grain growing had thrown thousands of labourers out of employment, and had encouraged the lords of the manors and other great landowners to ...
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Excerpt from The Shakespearean Guide to Stratford-on-Avon: With Chapters on Warwick, Kenilworth, and "the Shakespeare Country" Generally England in spite of, rather than in consequence of, the conditions under which the people lived. In the later days of bluff King Hal there was terrible privation in this agricultural district; the general introduction of wool-growing in place of grain growing had thrown thousands of labourers out of employment, and had encouraged the lords of the manors and other great landowners to dispossess the small cultivators who had redeemed for them selves little holdings and clearings on the skirts of the forest lands. These small holders, with their wives and families, were turned into the roads; and the best comfort the government could devise was punishment for those who remained three weeks in one place in idleness, and punishment for those Who wandered away from their own villages in search of work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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