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The giving a clear account of the Feudal Rights, Tenures, & c. in Scotland, will not only be useful on account of the great intricateness of that form of Government, but also because it will enable us to see what parts in our present happy Constitution bear still any resemblance to it.

Many of the Northern Nations before they left their native Countrys were unacquainted even with the Name of King, those among them that had introduc'd that title, were not Slaves to the Will of their Sovereign, on the Contrary in time of Peace He had but a slender Share of Power, & in War tho' his Jurisdiction was extensive, yet it was no greater than what every Leader of an Army had ever possess'd, "his "Corps were not compos'd of Hir'lings (as is now