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The changes brought about by the increased demand for English wool abroad led to radical changes in our farming and pasture system. I have often walked the narrow, deep lanes described here; even Edward I accepted that they were a hazard to law and order!
Justice, on the other hand, could be swift, and Corbett’s execution of the murderer follows a medieval pattern. The bell tower of St Edmund’s and the cunning use of the ropes is also based on fact as well as observation. In the fourteenth century the sons of Cain could be as cunning in their plotting as their modern descendants.
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