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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: whose laws he shortly after ratified. He used all his arts to cajole the people of England into the belief that he regarded them as his natural subjects, and not as a conquered people.1 He imitated the form and type of the coinage of the late monarch Harold, and made no alteration of the standard used in the mints of the kingdom, two of which were at Cambridge and Oxford. In his charters he styled himself Ego Willielmus Dei Gratia Anglorum hsereditario jure- factus (Monast. Angl. I., p. 44). He did not inscribe Dei gratia on his coins, which have on the obverse his name and title as king, with some of the leading letters of Anglorum. In the Domesday Book, wherever any notice of his arrival in England is referred to, it is always made (with one exception, fol. 124, b), as if he had come to his own dominions and without opposition. The Domesday Book furnished him with the exact amount of taxation he might impose in kind, or which might be commuted for money. It is recorded, that the sheriff was ordered to commute bread for 100 men or a pasture-fed ox for one shilling; a ram, sheep, or provender for 20 horses for fourpence. The Conqueror fixed the rate at which supplies or services might be commuted, and thus the value of the money was determined. He considered every man bound t pay according to what he had, and it does not appear he ever demanded what his subjects had not; like a prudent shepherd, he knew how much wool he could fleece his English flock; he was satisfied with the fleece, but seldom or never touched the carcase. And from the same document it appears he made little alteration in the laws and ancient customs which prevailed in cities and boroughs in the time of Edward. He retained the weight of the Saxon penny, but introduced the Norman mode of computation by s...
| ISBN-13 | 9781459069428 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1459069420 |
| Weight | 0.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.11 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 48 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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