Excerpt from Feudal Manuals of English History: A Series of Popular Sketches of Our National History, Compiled at Different Periods, From the Thirteenth Century to the Fifteenth, Use the Use Feudal Gentry and Nobility We might suppose, from what I have said, that similar manuals would have been in use among the feudal families in all countries where feudalism prevailed. Yet this seems not to have been the case. I have never been able to meet with an example of similar rolls in any country except England. I have been informed, by a French antiquary of good authority, that there is or was in the National Archives of France in Paris a single example, a roll, which he believed to contain a manual of French history, but this appears not to be quite certain. It is true that the family papers of the old feudal families in France have perished more generally than in England; but I think that there appear to be s11 Degrees Degreescient reasons for believing that these feudal manuals Were peculiar to England, though copies might be carried hence into other lands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.