Note 369 — Chapter X · SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE GREAT MORTALITY.

Fortnightly Review, viii, p. 192. This is, of course, true, but without qualification might give the reader a false impression as to the condition of the English peasant in the middle ages. Most of what Mr. Thorold Rogers says is applicable to all classes of society. Dr. Cunningham (Growth of English Industry and Commerce, p. 275) takes a truer view: "Life is more than meat, and though badly housed the ordinary villager was better fed and amused."