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Appendix

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Thk cities appear by Domesday-book to havebeen at the conquest little better than villages ,7 .York itself, though it was always the second, atleast the third 18 city in England, and was thecapital of a great province , which never wasthoroughly united with the rest , contained thenbut 1418 families IVIalmesbury tells us**,that the great distinction between the Anglo-Saxon nobility and the French or Norman , wasthat the latter built magnificent and stately castles;whereas the former consumed their immense for-tunes in riot and hospitality, and in mean houses.We may thence infer, that the arts in generalwere much less advanced in England than inFrance; a greater number of idle servants andretainers lived about the great families; and asthese , even in France, were powerful enough

r7 Winchester, being the capital of the Welt - Saxonmonarchy, was anciently a considerable city. Gul. kief,p. 210.

18 Norwich contained 738 houses, Exeter, 315, Ips-wich, 538, Northampton, 60, Hertford, 146, Canter-bury, 262, Bath, 64, Southampton, 84, Warwick, 225.See Brady os Boroughs , p. 3,4, 5 , 6, etc. These arethe most considerable he mentions. The account of themis extracted from Domefday-book.

” Brady’s treatise of boroughs, p. 10. There were fixwards, besides the archbishops palace; and site of thesewards contained the number of families here mentioned,which at the rate of five persons to a family makes about7cco fouls. The sixth ward was laid waste,k. 102. See also de Gelt. Angl. p, 333.