Excerpt from The Study of Early Municipal History in England In impressing upon us that 'those who would study the early history of our towns have fields and pastures on their hands', Maitland did not claim originality. The very word 'town' is an unmistakable finger-post. Beginning as an Old English word for a village, or even a single homestead, it has been narrowed down in this country, though not in New England, to mean an urban as distinguished from a rural community. The transition thus indicated had been noted by ...
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Excerpt from The Study of Early Municipal History in England In impressing upon us that 'those who would study the early history of our towns have fields and pastures on their hands', Maitland did not claim originality. The very word 'town' is an unmistakable finger-post. Beginning as an Old English word for a village, or even a single homestead, it has been narrowed down in this country, though not in New England, to mean an urban as distinguished from a rural community. The transition thus indicated had been noted by Stubbs, but the vivid picture of the agricultural aspects of mediaeval Cambridge in Township and Borough placed it in a new and stronger light. 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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