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Wars and confiscations, but above all the custom of gavelkind, had reduced that body very low.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Wars and confiscations, but above all the custom of gavelkind, had reduced that body very low.”
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Burke discusses the historical factors that weakened the English nobility, including wars and land customs.
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