Reference, Winston Churchill’s “History of the English Speaking Peoples”. In the segment of the book describing England’s debt to the longbow, and the yoeman bowman, he traces how English nobility (Aristos) differed from their French bretheren. At some point people get tired of abuse and someone gets “shafted”; from about 350 yards. Thus were born the legends of Robin Hood and ideas about the limits of power and the rights of individuals. Good stories, good government, good stuff all.