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Excerpt from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics, Vol. 1: January to June, 1809
In civil affairs, the year of the king's reign seems to have been the general date even in common deeds, till after the Restoration.
During Cromwell's usurpation the year of our Lord was introduced, because they did not choose to date by the years of the king's reign; and this was after wards continued for convenience.
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