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But there is the deep and the shallow in genealogy, as in other arts and sciences, and, incoherent as it may sound to the uninitiated, the introduction to the Liber de Antiquis Legibus is no old woman's work, but full of science and strange matter. It all grows, however, in genealogical trees, these being the predominant intellectual growth in the editor's mind.
Legi olim quemdam apud vos manens litteris antiquis; nescio Colucii ne esset, an alterius.
It was not so much a new law as an administrative act; but it formed a precedent for later times, and the energy of the justices of trailbaston effected a real, if temporary, improvement in the condition of the country. So important was the measure that a chronicler calls the year in which this was enacted the "year of trailbaston". Liber de antiquis legibus, p. 250.
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