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Excerpt from An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution: From the Reign of Henry VII. To the Present Time
No man was secure except by the force he could bring to his assistance the highways were infested with robbers; murder and pil lage were dignified with the name of war'; and men sought, under the wing of some powerful lord, or in private associations, that safety for life and property which government could not afford.
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