Set in a Silver Sea: The Island Peoples from Earliest Times to the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1Collins, 1984 - 470 pages |
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... town - halls and amphitheatres , public baths , aqueducts and drains . The capital of the Catuvellauni became Verulamium , or , in modern English , St Albans ; that of the Atrebates of the Thames valley Calleva Atrebatum or Silchester ...
... town - halls and amphitheatres , public baths , aqueducts and drains . The capital of the Catuvellauni became Verulamium , or , in modern English , St Albans ; that of the Atrebates of the Thames valley Calleva Atrebatum or Silchester ...
Page 50
... town of Derby had fourteen . The rivers swarmed with fish , and many places had eel - traps ; the little Fenland town of Wisbech paid the abbot of Ely an annual rent of fourteen thousand eels . Chester sent its earldorman a thousand ...
... town of Derby had fourteen . The rivers swarmed with fish , and many places had eel - traps ; the little Fenland town of Wisbech paid the abbot of Ely an annual rent of fourteen thousand eels . Chester sent its earldorman a thousand ...
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... town was heavily fortified . Some of the later boroughs , like Cambridge , never even had walls , but only palisades and ditches crossed by gated bridges . Being in little danger of attack , they were free from the military restrictions ...
... town was heavily fortified . Some of the later boroughs , like Cambridge , never even had walls , but only palisades and ditches crossed by gated bridges . Being in little danger of attack , they were free from the military restrictions ...
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