Note 731 — Chapter IV
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Cp. Torrens M'Cullagh, Industrial History, ii, 22, 33; Motley, p. 18. The Counts of Holland seem to have led the way in encouraging towns and population. But Baldwin III of Flanders (circa 960) seems to have established yearly fairs free of tolls (De Witt, Mémoires, French tr., ed. 1709. part i, ch. viii, p. 34).