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dignities also became hereditary from this cause , that the reason which induced the fiefs to be conferred upon the father held good also to his son and descendants . If , for example , the German potentate invested a Sacxon noble with the Dukedom of Saxony , because he was already rich in demesnes in this
country , and . therefore was especially qualified to defend itthis held good as to the son of this noble who inherited his demesnes ; and if this was repeatedly observed , it became a prescriptive right which could never again be subverted , unless upon an extraordinary occasion and with irresistible means of compulsion . Later times , indeed , are not altogether without
examples of such resumed fiefs , but historical writers mention them in a manner to let it be readily perceived that they are exceptions to the rule . It must further be kept in mind that these changes , more or less general , succeeded earlier or later in different countries . If the fiefs once degenerated into hereditary properties , it would quickly work a great difference in the
• mi / m . « • . 1 1 » T 1 • -i ^ relation of the sovereign with his nobility . As long as the sovereign resumed the vacant fief in order to bestow it anew of his free pleasure , the lower nobility would be the oftcner reminded of the throne , and the bond which knitted them to their immediate liege lord would be less firmly tied , since the pleasure of the monarch and every demise again severed it .
J 3 ut so soon as it became a matter of course that the son should succeed the father in the fief also , the vassal knew that he laboured for "his own successors , when lie showed himself devoted to his immediate liege lord . Thus , as the hereditableness of the fiefs loosened the bond between the crown and the
powerful vassal , that between the latter and his undertenants became the firmer united . The great fiefs at last were connected with the crown only through the person of the crown vassal , who often very long neglected to perform those
services which his dignities rendered obligatory .
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BY THE AUTHOR OF " MUNDI ET CORDI 3 CARMINA . " I . It was a theme for all the Villagers ; It turned their grave thoughts from their day-affairs ^ And mingled with their evening merriment ; And laughing talk among the gossips went , That a fair maid—to call a young man hers O' the coming morn—had dream d of the grey hairi . All night , of that Old Man ; and that with ftlgh * She sleeping t > ad talk'd love-of his most love-mild * re * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/17/
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