Note 334 — Chapter IX · The State. (continued 2)
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Newbridge, l. 2, c. 24. He is quite borne out by the Chartularies. Malmesbury gives a description of Ireland in the reign of Henry the First, which, with a due allowance for the prejudices of the historian, was probably not inapplicable at one time to Scotland. “Ita pro penuria imo pro inscientia cultorum, jejunum omnium bonorum solum, agrestem et squalidam multitudinem Hibernensium extra urbes producit; Angli vero et Franci, cultiore genere vitæ, urbes nundinarum commercio inhabitant.”—Gest. Reg., l. 5, sec. 409.