Note 258 — Chapter III · THE PEASANTRY (continued)
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Coke, Debate of Heralds. See also the quotation, Froude’s Henry VIII., vol. i. chap, i., from a State Paper of 1515: “What comyn folke in all this world may compare with the comyns of England, in riches, freedom, liberty, welfare, and all prosperity? What comyn folke is so mighty, so stronge in the felde, as the comyns of England?”