Note 829 — Chapter XIII · THE NEGOTIATIONS OF DUKE WILLIAM.[752] January–August, 1066.
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Ib. 11171;
“Ceste parole lor mostrez,
Bien deivent al cunseil venir,
Ki el travail deibvent partir.”
This good constitutional doctrine almost forestalls the teaching of our great constitutional poet of the thirteenth century;
“Igitur communitas regni consulatur,
Et quid universitas sentiat sciatur.”
Political Songs (Camden Soc.), p. 110. But, instead of “communitas regni,” Normandy had only “grant barnage.”