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Three Essays in the Early History of England.
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The greater part of what is in this book was written in order that it might be included in the _History of English Law before the Time of Edward I._ which was published by Sir Frederick Pollock and me in the year 1895. Divers reasons dictated a change of plan. Of one only need I speak. I knew that Mr Round was on the eve of giving to the world his _Feudal England_, and that thereby he would teach me and others many new lessons about the scheme and meaning of Domesday Book. That I was well advised in waiting will be evident to everyone who has studied his work. In its light I have suppressed, corrected, added much. The delay has also enabled me to profit by Dr Meitzen's _Siedelung und Agrarwesen der Germanen_[1], a book which will assuredly leave a deep mark upon all our theories of old English history.