Note 35 — PART II HISTORICAL STUDIES (continued 2)
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It was here no question of 'the laws and rights of Englishmen':35 it was to no folkmoot that William Rufus spoke. When we read of the King in his court, composed of his tenants-in-chief,36 as surrounded by 'no small part of the nation',37 when we hear of the mass of 'the Assembly ... crying Yea, yea';38 when we learn that 'a great numerical proportion, most likely a numerical majority, were natives',39 we are fairly prepared for the astounding statement that: