Note 988 — Chapter I
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A.L. Smith, in Social England, i, 201, 202. When Alfred built ships he had to get "Frisian pirates" to man them. It was clearly the new agricultural facilities of England that turned the original pirates into thorough landsmen. Cp. Dr. Cunningham, Growth of English Industry and Commerce, 3rd ed. 1896, App. E. pp. 640, 641.