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Old Roads and New Roads

William Bodham Donne

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. . .4">p. 14the convenience of walls and markets seemed to hold out every inducement to take possession of the vacant enclosures.  The castle and the cathedral became the nucleus of the Teutonic cities.  Hamlets crept around the precincts of the sacred and the outworks of the secular building: but it was long before the Lord Abbot or the Lord Chatelain regarded with any feelings but disdain, the burgher who exercised his trade or exposed his wares in the narrow lanes of the town which abutted on his domains, and enriched his manorial exchequer.

In many cases indeed the Roman cities were allowed to decay: the forest resumed its rights: the feudal castle was constructed from the ruins of the Proconsul’s palace and the Basilica, or if these edifices were too massive for demolition, they were left standing in the waste—the Mammoths and Saurians of a bygone civilization.  The great Viæ were for leagues overgrown with herbage, or concealed by wood and mo. . . Read More