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Chapter 1

           Ontheotherhand,suchandsomultipliedwerethemeansofvexationandoppressionpossessedbythegreatBarons,thattheyneverwantedthepretext,andseldomthewill,toharassandpursue,eventotheveryedgeofdestruction,anyoftheirlesspowerfulneighbours,whoattemptedtoseparatethemselvesfromtheirauthority,andtotrustfortheirprotection,duringthedangersofthetimes,totheirowninoffensiveconduct,andtothelawsoftheland.

           Acircumstancewhichgreatlytendedtoenhancethetyrannyofthenobility,andthesufferingsoftheinferiorclasses,arosefromtheconsequencesoftheConquestbyDukeWilliamofNormandy.FourgenerationshadnotsufficedtoblendthehostilebloodoftheNormansandAnglo-Saxons,ortounite,bycommonlanguageandmutualinterests,twohostileraces,oneofwhichstillfelttheelationoftriumph,whiletheothergroanedunderalltheconsequencesofdefeat.ThepowerhadbeencompletelyplacedinthehandsoftheNormannobility,bytheeventofthebattleofHastings,andithadbeenused,asourhistoriesassureus,withnomoderatehand.ThewholeraceofSaxonprincesandnobleshadbeenextirpatedordisinherited,withfewornoexceptions;norwerethenumbersgreatwhopossessedlandinthecountryoftheirfathers,evenasproprietorsofthesecond,orofyetinferiorclasses.Theroyalpolicyhadlongbeentoweaken,byeverymeans,legalorillegal,thestrengthofapartofthepopulationwhichwasjustlyconsideredasnourishingthemostinveterateantipathytotheirvictor.

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