TOWNS AND TRADE

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25 THE WOOL TRADE.

26 GENERAL TRADE.

30 TOWNS TO THE 13TH CENTURY.

31 TOWNS FROM THE 13TH CENTURY.

Would you agree that up to the twelfth century economic as much as military factors determined the siting of the English towns ?

Of the English towns London alone was of any political importance in the middle ages. Why?

How were the English towns governed ?

What advantages did the English towns hope to gain by the purchase of royal charters

Discuss the development of town life in England in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

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