Note 124 — DIALOGUE V. ON THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT.

The learned Craig, who has written so largely and accurately on the feudal law, was so far from seeing any thing servile in it, that he says, “The foundations of this discipline are laid in the most generous of all considerations, those of Gratitude. Hujus feudalis disciplinæ fundamenta à gratitudine et ingratitudine descendunt.” Epist. Nuncup. to K. James.