ABSTRACT
In order to encourage a truculent population that dwelled in scattered settlements (and was thus only too ready to fall to fighting) to live in a peaceful and inactive manner by offering it the pleasures that would follow on such a way of living, Agricola urged these people privately, and helped them officially, to build temples, public squares with public buildings (fora), and private houses (domus). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is one of the most important documents of British history. Its compilation started approximately AD 890, and it was subsequently added to by generations of anonymous writers until the middle of the twelfth century. The law of the thegn is that he be entitled to his book-right, and that he shall contribute three things in respect of his land: armed service, the repairing of fortresses and work on bridges.
