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My name is Jamie and this is episode 407, Robbing the Hood.

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I feel for the English commoners in the late 1060s.

They had nothing to do with the arrival of the Normans.

Everything they suffered was the result of the actions of the nobility, exclusively.

Now you might disagree on which member of the nobility was responsible depending on which

account you believe, but the fact remains that the commoners never had a say in any of

it.

But, they were still the people who suffered the worst consequences of the nobility's

actions and inactions.

Common people were suffering even before the first Norman ship reached English shores.

Families have been fractured for months at a time just so that Harold could prepare a

defense against William.

Members weren't able to raise their children.

Suns couldn't tend to their aging parents.

Villages, shoulder twice the work just to try and stay fed and sheltered throughout the

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