A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 9
military experts, whose the king was head. Specialization had
broken the system as which all the men served an equal amount of
everything. The little that had called thegns served the king, generally
fighting against his/her enemies, while the many ones worked for them and for
those that served the king. All the holders of earth owed however, to serve
in the national tax and to help in to maintain the bridges and
primitive fortifications. But there were degrees without end of the inequality
in wealth; some now possessed but a fraction of that that had been the normal one
action of a family in the earth; others contained a lot of actions and the
possession of five actions became the line that divides among the class
from what the servants of the king and the rest of the were select
community. While this inequality increased, the estate of earth grew
more main point as the base of position social and political
influence. Earth has the small value for nomads, but so early as them they establish
its value starts to grow; and the more one they work them they put in the earth,
increase him taller his/her value and the less that they wants to leave him/it; in a
purely earth of agricultural community is the great source of everything
value having, and therefore the principal object of desire.
But it became in difficult increasing way for the small man to hold back his
holding. He needed protection, especially during the civil wars of the
Heptarchy and the Danish raids that followed. There was however, no
I govern strong enough to afford himself/herself/themselves protection, and he had to look for him/it
from the nearest magnate that would possess armed servants to defend
him, and perhaps a rudimentary fortitude among which it is probable that he protects
its belongingses and he cultivate the storm you/he/she was passed. The magnate
wanted naturally his/her price for these commodities and the only price
that would satisfy him/it it was the earth of the poor man. Then many poor men
it surrendered to the ownership of their earth, while receiving again it to be kept