Note (63) — Chapter II
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The legal character of William’s despotism I have tried to set forth almost throughout the whole of my fourth volume. See especially pp. 8, 617; but it is plain to everyone who has the slightest knowledge of Domesday. Nothing can show more utter ignorance of the real character of the man and his times than the idea of William being a mere “rude man of war,” as I have seen him called.