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2. We learn in general that the Saxon Kings had levies of money and personal Services, towards repairing Cities, Castles, Bridges, and for Military Expeditions; Such levies were called underline Burgbote, Brigbote /underline and underline Heregeld /underline.

The Danes levied great Sums in the Reigns of Ethelred and Ina, upon Hides of Land called underline Hidaquin /underline, the name given to allTaxes and Subsidies upon Land; we meet at this time also with a Duty upon Cattle or Horngeld.

Taxes and Tollages were Norman Words applied to most Impositions, though levied in a very different manner from what they are at present, for we read of the Ninth Fleece, and the Ninth Sheaf, long after the Norman Invasion.

The right of laying Impositions has

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