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Revision as of 23:43, 15 July 2018
7. Tho the Barons were every where audacious, the Scotch one's carry'd it to the greatest excess, this was owing to the Wildness of their Country which afforded them Secure retreats, to the Scarceness of Towns, for where numbers of People Settle, due order must be establish'd, & proper obedience to the Magistrates, for without those no man's life would be safe; but the Barons Vassals laying detach'd, they paid no defference excapt to their Chieftains.
The dividing the country into Clans also greatly encreas'd the power of the Nobles, to trace the origin of these we must just look back to the first beginnings of Feudal Governments. The Nations that overran Europe consisted of various Small tribes, when they were to divide their Conquer'd Lands, the General or King, us'd to give a certain portion to his own Tribe or family,
