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From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a contract to treat London nice…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrying_of_the_North

Although I guess they didn’t agree.

Also I’ve never heard of a Portreeve before, I’m guessing they’re a Shirereeve for a port.



> From the King that brought you the Harrying of the North comes a contract to treat London nice…

Your own link points out that he tried paying the northerners off first.



Not the last time we were sold out by London.


I wonder how much of a concept or identity England/English was to any given local compared to their local loyalties, regional lords and etc.


land, language, culture -- bonds that apply from local to city-state .. once it scales up then law, economic roles .. offhand




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