Note 23 — A DISCOURSE concerning the LAWS and GOVERNMENT of ENGLAND.
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They had suffered considerably, even from the time of the Confessor to that of Domesday-book. Authors ought therefore to be cautious in reasoning back from that monument to the Saxon period. It is a pity, that the survey of the kingdom taken by Alfred did not yet remain. The comparison of it with that of William would lead to very curious discoveries.