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 | | In 410, Honorious instructed British towns to provide for their own defense, and when Constantine III was defeated and killed in 412, Rome was too weak to regain the lost British provinces, and they began to form their own distinctive culture (Colling- wood, 1949: 47). |
 | | This rea- lignment of power exacerbated class tensions, which were to erupt in the next century to challenge the monarchy, trans- ferring power from the crown to a fairly independent bureau- cratic apparatus. |
 | | Yet, despite the emergence of a powerful merchant and nas- cent industrial class, the mid 1500s were still dominated by great landowners, although the peasant revolt of 1549, the last major insurrection of its kind, challenged their hegem- ony both in politics and law. |
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