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The following Work would be attended with much more utility as well as entertainment, were it possible to premise any tolerable Account of the Crown Demesnes, & of the methods practic’d in raising Taxes for the support of Government, during the mild Reigns in the Saxon Line, & the short though turbulent period of the Danish Invasion; but an almost total silence reigns in our old Authors upon this subject; many pages are fill’d with the wise regulations of Alfred & Canute, but in these Branches History & Tradition fail us.

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