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In the primitive process of aggregation, the shire or gau, governed by its witenagemote or "meeting of wise men," and by its chief magistrate who was called ealdorman in time of peace and heretoga, "army-leader," dux, or duke, in time of war, the shire, I say, in this form, is the largest and most complex political body we find previous to the formation of kingdoms and nations.
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