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5. These deletion tenures /deletion addition Rights therefore grew from annual to be given for life, & were enlarg'd afterwards into estates of inheritage. This change in ye feoffces produc'd, two other condisderable alterations in Govern. first it is ye foundation of ye Hereditory 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 forever annexd to Estates yt unclear were few, but in after ages were extremly multipli'd, thus as in the, devision of ye Lands each private person had his share allocated by ye whole, so the discendants of these 1st conquerors were undoubtedly bound to melitary services in tme of war, for the good of the whole community, the greater partions, given to the Principal persons, since call'd cavalry; was bestow'd by the whole people; this again was parcell'd out by him with the comand of the whole nation, to [[unclear] ] of his immediate tribe; as therfore the chief of the country held his position, from the people & the Prince who commanded his was call'd Baron service; that of his tribe to him military hence, & the obligations of all to the nations safty. & is uncertain how these tenures, were at first fixd. in later ages they were annex'd to the Estates; fealty by oath, was unclear when first feuds were made hereditary. & were common in 1020. when once feuds became hereditary many unclear happend betwixt the unclear unclear & Vassals; & betwixt the unclear Vassals. themselves, this accasion' many various rules & defernt nations, which colleased, have taken the name of the feudal law, by which all disputes, of that nature, were for many ages granted the history unclear happening in those laws would be in malling the desosession of the various changes that have happened inEuropean countrys; here then wee end this generall history, & others few observations; come to the antient state of the Country.