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The customs of "gavelkinde" and "tanistry" were attended with the same absurdity in the distribution of property. The chieftains and the tanists, though drawn from the principal families, were not hereditary, but were established by election, or, more properly speaking, by force and violence. * Sir John Davis, p. 166. Sir John Davis, p. 167 * Sir John Davis, p. 173
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