. The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales : with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects . ous, andfar above the vices of a vulgar voluptuary. If he respected thechurch, he never submitted to its encroachments, but compelledthe priesthood to a severe decency of manners, and steadilyopposed the attempted usurpation of the Papal See. His lawsgave legal rights to the rustic population and mitigated theirbondage, and even his constant determination of suppressing thepower of his great barons, tended not a little to the subsequent WILLIAM THE FIRST. 21 Welfare and freedom of England,
. The royal families of England, Scotland, and Wales : with their descendants, sovereigns and subjects . ous, andfar above the vices of a vulgar voluptuary. If he respected thechurch, he never submitted to its encroachments, but compelledthe priesthood to a severe decency of manners, and steadilyopposed the attempted usurpation of the Papal See. His lawsgave legal rights to the rustic population and mitigated theirbondage, and even his constant determination of suppressing thepower of his great barons, tended not a little to the subsequent WILLIAM THE FIRST. 21 Welfare and freedom of England, though with no such intentionon his part. To raise a power that might assist in controuhngthem, he promoted the emancipation of the servile, and encour-aged the burghers of the towns, and by these acts was unconsci-ously sowing the germs of national independence. His virtueswere no doubt pre-eminently his own, and perhaps we shall notdo any great wrong to truth, if we attribute much of his acknow-ledged evil to the circumstances in which he was placed, Aconqueror can scarcely be other than a r>y. ■■.:-■/■■■. ^:.-.: •. -. •■ •■::•■ •^^^^^^##W^^>>J^::
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