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These deletion tenures /deletion addition Rights /addition therefore grew from annual to be given for life, & were enlarg'd afterwards into estates of inheritage.

This change in ye. feoffees produc'd, two other considerable alterations in Govern. first it is ye. foundation of ye. Hereditary K. ships & Nobility over Europe; secondly ye. Country being wholy apropriated, people who had not land were oblig'd for a maintenance, to invent various methods, to indulge, & support, ye. case & Luxury of ye. Rich; Hence arrose ye. encouragements of Sciences, Arts & Trades, follow'd by innumerable, Towns, Cities, & Boroughs throughout all Europe.

ye. second great alteration we mentiond was in ye. tenures. These were services annexd to Estates & at first were few, but in after ages were extremly multipli'd, thus as in the, devision of ye Lands each private person had his share allotted by ye whole; so the discendants of these 1st conquerors were undoubtedly bound to military services in time of war, for the good of the whole Community, the greater portions, given to the Principal persons, since call'd Countys; was bestow'd by the whole people; this again was parcell'd out by him with the consent of the whole nation, to individuals of his immediate tribe; as therefore the chief of the county held his position, from the people & the Prince who commanded his was call'd Baron service; that of his tribe to him military tenure, & the obligations of all to the nations fealty. It is uncertain how these tenures, were at first fixd. in later ages they were annex'd to the Estates; fealty by oath, was instituted when first feuds were made hereditary. & were common in 1020.

when once feuds became hereditary many disputes happen'd betwixt the deletion Lords /deletion addition Superiors /addition & Vassals; & betwixt deletion the Superiors /deletion addition Vassals /addition themselves, this occasion'd many various rules & determinations, which collected, have taken the name of the feudal law, by which all disputes, of that nature, were for many ages granted addition ^is /addition the history of changes happening in those laws would be in realling the description of the various changes that have happened in the European countrys; here then wee end this generall history, & after a few observations; come to the antient state of this Country.