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Chelsea Hospital and its traditions / By the author of 'The country curate' [i.e. G.R. Gleig] "The subaltern," "The chronicles of Waltham," &.

  • George Robert Gleig
Date:
1838
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chelsea Hospital and its traditions / By the author of 'The country curate' [i.e. G.R. Gleig] "The subaltern," "The chronicles of Waltham," &. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    who aided him in his contest with Harold. It was on knights and barons, however, and on them alone, that these rich prizes were bestow- ed; for of the private soldiers no heed was taken, except, indeed, that each baron, attach- ing a certain portion of these to his own for- tunes, carried them down to his estate, and as instruments for oppressing and plundering his neighbours. In like manner, during the unsettled and turbulent reigns of many of the succeeding monarchs, though estates continually changed their owners, they passed only from one great chief to another; for the spirit of feudalism was entirely opposed to the subdivision of land; and in that species of spoil, as it came vernment, indeed, knew them not, — for the supreme government dealt only with persons the baron himself was induced, both by honour
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