speculations not possible by the capital of only one person.

There were some ale-houses.


- The Law -

Alfred issued a set of laws to cover the whole country.

The importance of telling the truth and keeping one's word are
expressed by this law:
"1. At the first we teach that it is most needful that every man
warily keep his oath and his wed. If any one be constrained to
either of these wrongfully, either to treason against his lord,
or to any unlawful aid; then it is juster to belie than to
fulfil. But if he pledge himself to that which is lawful to
fulfil, and in that belie himself, let him submissively deliver
up his weapon and his goods to the keeping of his friends, and be
in prison forty days in a King's tun: let him there suffer
whatever the bishop may prescribe to him: ...".

The Ten Commandments were written down as this law:

"The Lord spake these words to Moses, and thus said: I am the
Lord thy God. I led thee out of the land of the Egyptians, and of
their bondage.

1. Love thou not other strange gods above me.

2. Utter thou not my name idly, for thou shalt not be guiltless