The Life William the Conqueror: Now First Published from Official Records and Other Authentic Documents (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The framer of a new system of English laws and government, William I. Likewise presented the earliest example to his successors in the career of foreign con quest and colonial possession and the most heroic and distinguished among all may justly be thought to have inherited, like a royal heir-loom, those prerogatives which enabled them to raise the national character and glory, to extend their dominion, to acquire the supre macy of the seas, and to become chief participators In the colonies and commerce of the world.

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