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tlien to be found in every European kingdom.Ibis circumstance made even the thirtieth part ofthe sum more difficult to levy, and caused anysum to, have more than thirty times greaterweight and influence both abroad and at home ,than in our times; in the fame manner that asum, a hundred thousand pounds for instance,is at present more difficult to levy in a smallstate , such as Bavaria, and can produce greatereffects on such a small community , than onEngland. This last difference is not easy to becalculated : But allowing , that England hasnow six times more industry, and three timesmore people than it had at the conquest and forsome reigns after that period , we are , upon thatsupposition, to conceive taking all circumstancestogether, every sum of money mentioned byhistorians, as if it were multiplied more than ahundred fold above a sum of the same denominationat present.

In the Saxon times , land was divided equallyamong all the male-children of the deceased,according to the custom of Gavelkind. Thepractice of entails is to be found in those timesLand was chiefly of two kinds, bookland, orland held by book or charter, which was re-garded as full property, and descended to theheirs of the possessor; and folkland, or the landheld by the ceorles and common people, whowere removeable at pleasure, and were indeedonly tenants during the will of their lords.

The first attempt, which we find in England

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