Dick, Stewart, Allingham, Helen Paterson, 1848-1926 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 88
until the old free ceorl had becomethe villein known to Norman lawyers. But tillafter the Conquest there was no sharp distinctionbetween class and class, such as came with the riseof feudalism, when the dominant factor in the divisionof ranks was the possession of land, determining,with an… … THE EVOLUTION OF THE COTTAGE 39 of undressed timber and interlaced boughs of theearly Britons. But though, as regards domestic comfort, com-paratively little progress had been made, yet graduallya stable social system was being established, differingin its essentials but little from that which…
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