... period barbarian invaders were making frequentinroads into Britain. The Picts and Scots from modern Scotland, Saxon pirates, and, later, ever increasingswarms of Angles, Jutes, and Frisians from ... trade, wealth, and population, and many of them ceased altogetherfor a time to exist. Britain was rapidly sinking again into a land of barbarism.*4. Early Saxon England.* An increasing number of ... sometimes in addition to, the week-work and the boon-work, the villain was required to plough so many acres in the fall and spring; to mow, toss, and carry in the hay from so many acres; to haul and...