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Excerpt from An Essay Towards the Further Elucidation of the Law of Descents
Some have fuppofed the orgin of counties to have been from the government of the nations remaining in the conquered countries of europe, who retained their lands in alloa'ia However, counties, and hundreds, and tythings alfo, fcom much more ancient than the time of Alfred, and to have been common to the northern nations.
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