The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution

A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 34

soon of artillery showed him as fatal to the feudal castle as the long-arc
it had to the planned rider;  and when the feudal classes had lost them
predominance in the art of war, and with him their monopoly of the power
of protection, both the reasons for their existence and their ability
to maintain was mined him/it. They took to deal, or, at least, to
money-doing of earth as citizens to the agenda and so it entered in
a competition in which they didn't have the same insurance of the success.

Edward of whom the greatness of I's mainly consists in its practical appreciation
these tendencies. He was less original, but more fortunate in his
opportunity, that Henry II. The time had come to put limits to the
the abuses of feudalism and the church, and Edward was able to
impose them because, otherwise from Henry II, he had the elements of a nation
to his/her back. He was not able to sweep again these raids, but he put
tall-water's marks along the frontiers of the state, and it that them
you/he/she was not infringed. He asked in the titles from that the great one
gentlemen held those portions of supreme authority that they called
their liberties;  but he could not sue further cause when Earl Warenne
produced a rusted sword as his/her title-action real. He prohibited
further subinfeudation decreeing that when a piece of ground of ground was sold, the
buyer would owe becoming the vassal of the gentleman of the seller and not of the
same seller;  and the social pyramid was made so more stable,
because its base had widened instead of its height that is increased.
He expelled the Hebrews as estranges, despite their utility to the
crown;  he encouraged commerce making earth profits responsible to
the forfeiture for debt;  and he defined the jurisdiction of the church, nevertheless
he had to leave him/it authority on all the matters related to marriage,
the wishes, perjury tenth, offenses against the clergy and cleric
buildings. However, he succeeded in challenge of his/her opposition, in
ownership of church that does responsible to temporal taxation, and in to pass a
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