Fifty years
More that once, England was in danger, more than once, English warriors occupied large areas in Europe.
However, these happenings did not always affect greatly our lives, the ordinary people of England. Most of us were farmers, living far from big civilization. Sometimes some village lad would come back with stories of French wars - Miss Venice was full of tales that her mother had told her and her grandmother had told her mother -, or some wandering pedlar or friar brought news of far-away happenings.
That was all we knew then - before a bit of civilization came trickling in -, living in the wide spaces of the countryside of the world beyond. Age after age the countryman was content with t
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